Karen Ter-Martirosian

Karen Avetovich Ter-Martirosyan (Russian: Карен Аветикович Тер-Мартиросян; 28 September 1922 – 19 November 2005) was a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist of Armenian descent.

After two years of teaching physics at the Tbilisi Railroad Institute, he obtained a Candidate of Sciences degree (Ph.D. equivalent) at the Leningrad Physico-Technical Institute in St. Petersburg, advised by Yakov Frenkel.

[2] He was a student of Lev Landau and his research colleague Isaak Pomeranchuk.

Among his students were Vladimir Gribov, Alexey Andreevich Anselm, Alexander Polyakov, Arkady Migdal, Alexander Zamolodchikov, Alexey Kaidalov.

Also, he organized schools and conferences in Nor-Hamberd of Yerevan in Armenia.