Alexander Abashian

Alexander Abashian (11 March 1930 – 12 February 2014) was an American particle physicist.

Abashian earned a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University,[2] and served as an adviser to several doctoral students at Virginia Tech.

[3][4] Prior to joining the Virginia Tech faculty, he taught at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and was a member of the research division within the high-energy physics program of the United States Atomic Energy Commission.

[5][6] Abashian was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1969,[5] and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1985.

[7] Abashian was married to Dorothy VanDeMar from September 1957 until her death in 2009.