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Mishik Kazaryan, physicist
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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. Kazaryanβ€˜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...