The first international prize of Victor Ambartsumyan has been awarded to a Swiss astrophysicist, professor of the Swiss Academy of Sciences, Michelle Maeru, and the members of his science group, the president of Armenian National Academy of Sciences, Radik Martirosyan, said at the press-conference.
There work 14 works from all over the world sent for observation. The work of Professor Maer and two members of his science group, Garik Israelyan, an employee of the Institute of Astrophysics on Canary Islands, and Nuno Sartosi, an employee of the Center of Astrophysics of Porto University (Portugal).
The winner will be awarded on September 18th, birthday of Ambartsumyan, with $500 000, News Armenia reports. Maer will be awarded for being the first person to dicover a planet within our Solar System rotating around a Sun-type star.
The Victor Ambartsumbayev award was issued in 2009 by Armenian president. It is one of the most significant awards in astronomy and astrophysics. Any scientist from any country can be awarded for making a great contribution to science. A special commission of 9 people, one third of them changes annually, establishes to select the laureat. Foreign scientists will also be in the commission.
Victor Ambartsumyan (1908-1996) is a notorious Soviet scientists, one of the founders of theoretical astrophysics. He was working on the physics of stars and nebulas, star astronomy and star system dynamics, cosmogony of stars and galaxies.
