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ARMENIAN SCIENTIST GRANTED THE HIGHEST AWARD OF CANARIES
Thursday 12 June 2014 10:06
Photo: from G.Israyelyan archive
Yerevan /Mediamax/. Armenian astrophysicist Garik Israyelyan was
granted the highest award of Canary Islands, Gold Medal.
The Gold Medal is awarded to individuals and organizations which made
a significant contribution to the life on the Canaries.
The award was given to Garik Israyelyan by President of the Canary
Islands Paulino Rivero.
Garik Israyelyan works at the Institute of Astrophysics of the
Canary Islands.
In 2010, Swiss astrophysicist and professor of Astronomy Department
of Geneva University Michel Mayor and his scientific team including
Garik Israyelyan and Nunu Santos became the first laureates of Victor
Hambardzumyan International Award established in Armenia.
Garik Israyelyan is also the initiator of STARMUS scientific festival.
The second STARMUS Festival due to be held on the Canary Islands on
September 22-27 will host world-famous British theoretical physicist
and cosmologist Stephen Hawking. He is supposed to open the Festival
titled "Beginnings: The Making of the Modern Cosmos".
The second STARMUS Festival will also host internationally acclaimed
astrophysicists, physicists and laureates of Nobel Prize.
The first STARMUS international festival was held in Tenerife in 2011.
It was dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the human's first flight
to the universe by Yuri Gagarin, and it became a bright musical and
scientific event.
You can find more detailed information on the Festival here:
http://www.starmus.com.
http://www.mediamax.am/en/news/society/10552/
Thursday 12 June 2014 10:06
Photo: from G.Israyelyan archive
Yerevan /Mediamax/. Armenian astrophysicist Garik Israyelyan was
granted the highest award of Canary Islands, Gold Medal.
The Gold Medal is awarded to individuals and organizations which made
a significant contribution to the life on the Canaries.
The award was given to Garik Israyelyan by President of the Canary
Islands Paulino Rivero.
Garik Israyelyan works at the Institute of Astrophysics of the
Canary Islands.
In 2010, Swiss astrophysicist and professor of Astronomy Department
of Geneva University Michel Mayor and his scientific team including
Garik Israyelyan and Nunu Santos became the first laureates of Victor
Hambardzumyan International Award established in Armenia.
Garik Israyelyan is also the initiator of STARMUS scientific festival.
The second STARMUS Festival due to be held on the Canary Islands on
September 22-27 will host world-famous British theoretical physicist
and cosmologist Stephen Hawking. He is supposed to open the Festival
titled "Beginnings: The Making of the Modern Cosmos".
The second STARMUS Festival will also host internationally acclaimed
astrophysicists, physicists and laureates of Nobel Prize.
The first STARMUS international festival was held in Tenerife in 2011.
It was dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the human's first flight
to the universe by Yuri Gagarin, and it became a bright musical and
scientific event.
You can find more detailed information on the Festival here:
http://www.starmus.com.
http://www.mediamax.am/en/news/society/10552/