Felix A. Aharonian (born 23 May 1952) is a physicist and astrophysicist. He is a recognized authority on the origin of cosmic rays, and has written books and research papers on
astroparticle physics
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, and
cosmology.
Born in
Yerevan,
Armenia (former
USSR), Aharonian received his Ph.D. from the
Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) (russian: Национальный исследовательский ядерный университет "МИФИ" / НИЯУ МИФИ or ) is a technical un ...
and is Professor of Astrophysics,
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS),
Dublin,
Ireland and Head of High Energy Astrophysics Theory Group,
Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
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research institute in Heidelberg, Germany.
The institute is one of the 80 institutes of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (Max Planck Society), an independent, n ...
(MPIK),
Heidelberg,
Germany.
Professional Activities
* Member, editorial board:
International Journal of Modern Physics
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''International Journal of Modern Physics A''
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D
* Member: Armenian Astronomical Society
* Member:
H.E.S.S.
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Collaboration Board.
Honors
* 2005 Prize of the President of Armenia
* 2006 EU
Descartes Prize (as a member of the H.E.S.S. collaboration)
* 2010
Rossi Prize (shared with
Werner Hofmann and H. Völk)
* 2014 Viktor Ambartsumian International Prize in astronomy/astrophysics (with Igor Karachentsev and
R. Brent Tully
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Born in Toronto, Ontario, and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Tully's specialty is the astrophysics of gal ...
)
Books
'
Very High Energy Cosmic Gamma Radiation: A Crucial Window on the Extreme Universe''
hardcover: 495 pages, World Scientific (2004)
'
TeV gamma-ray astrophysics: theory and observations presented at the Heidelberg workshop, October 3-7, 1994''
co-author with Heinrich J. Völk
hardcover, 450 pages, Kluwer Academic Publishers (1996)
'
Astrophysics at Very High Energies: Saas-Fee Advanced Course 40. Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy''
with co-authors Lars Bergström, Charles Dermer, Roland Walter, Marc Türler
hardcover: 373 pages, Springer Science & Business Media (2013)
Selected literature
* The Crab Nebula and Pulsar between 500 GeV and 80 TeV: Observations with the HEGRA Stereoscopic Air Cerenkov Telescopes
* 40th Saas-Fee Course: Astrophysics at Very High Energies
Bibliography
Contemporary Authors, vol. 13 (1984)
References
External links
Microsoft Academic SearchDublin Institute for Advanced Studies / Astronomy and Astrophysics
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1952 births
Living people
Armenian astrophysicists
Armenian physicists
Irish physicists
Academics of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies