Mishkik

8Apr

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Armenia, Noteworthy, Profiles

Mishik Kazaryan, physicist

Mishik Airazatovich Kazaryan – a Russian-Armenian physicist specialising in laser physics and optics, the winner of the State Prize of the USSR in the field of science and technology, foreign member of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences, member of the AM Prokhorov Academy of Engineering Sciences ‑ – died on 7 April,2020 due to COVID-19. Kazaryan was a creator of the brightest repetitively pulsed laser in the visible region of the spectrum. Kazaryan‘s father, Airazat G. Kazaryan Gabrielovich, was a physician, who worked at the Yerevan Medical Institute; his mother, Serik O. Vanuni, was an honoured Doctor of the Armenian SSR, and an obstetrician-gynecologist at the Markaryan Yerevan Maternity Hospital. In 1970 Mishik Kazaryan graduated from the faculty of general and applied physi...

Nur Hassan Hussein, politician

Nur Hassan Hussein aka Nur Adde ‑ a Somali politician who served as Prime Minister of Somalia from November 2007 to February 2009 – succumbed to Covid-19 on 1 April 2020. He was from Mogadishu and part of the Abgaal sub-clan of the Hawiye. Hussein began his professional career in the early 1950s as a police officer for Italian Somaliland before Somalia gained its independence. After completing studies in Law at the Somalia National University and the Fiscal Law School in Rome, Hussein became chief police officer and attorney general in 1987 under President Siad Barre, a post he held until 1991 when the Somali Civil War broke out. He subsequently served as the Secretary General of the Somali Red Crescent Society (SRCS). On 22 November 2007,...

Mohamed Farah, footballer

Abdulkadir Mohamed Farah –a Somali footballer – died on 24 March 2020 after contracting Covid-19 virus. Born in Beledweyne, Farah began his career in 1976 at schoolboy level, later playing at the regional level before playing club football for Batroolka. He also represented the Somali national team. Farah later worked as an advisor to the Minister of Youth and Sports. He died in a hospital in London from coronavirus.