Garik Israelian (Armenian: Գարիկ Իսրայելյան, born 1963) is an Armenian astrophysicist and scientist who led the team which found the first observational evidence that supernova explosions are responsible for the formation of stellar mass black holes.Garik Israelian was born in Yerevan, Armenia in 1963. He graduated from Yerevan State University in 1987 with a First Class Honors degree in Physics, and completed his PhD in 1992.Israelian has since worked as a lecturer/researcher in the Universities of Utrecht (The Netherlands), Brussels (Belgium), and Sydney (Australia). Since 1997 he has been a Principal Investigator for the project "Stellar chemical abundances: clues on the formation of the Galaxy, black holes and planets" at the Institute of Astrophysics, Canary Islands (IAC), and a Professor at the University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands (Spain). The IAC operates the largest optical telescope in the world: the 10.4-meter GTC located on the island of La Palma. Wikipedia
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