Biography:Alexander Abashian
Alexander Abashian (11 March 1930 – 12 February 2014) was an American particle physicist.
Abashian earned a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University,[1] and served as an adviser to several doctoral students at Virginia Tech.[2][3] 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.[4][5] Abashian was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1969,[4] and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1985.[6]
Abashian was married to Dorothy VanDeMar until her death in 2009. The couple raised four children.[7] Abashian died on 12 February 2014.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Dr. Alexander Abashian". Baltimore Sun. 16 February 2014. https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/baltimoresun/name/alexander-abashian-obituary?id=19915043.
- ↑ "Browsing Doctoral Dissertations by Author "Abashian, Alexander"". Virginia Tech. https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919/11041/browse?value=Abashian%2C+Alexander&type=author.
- ↑ "Browsing ETDs: Virginia Tech Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Author "Abashian, Alexander"". Virginia Tech. https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919/5534/browse?type=author&value=Abashian%2C+Alexander.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "APS fellow archive". American Physical Society. https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=A&year=&unit_id=&institution=.
- ↑ "Francia, Sloan and Cooke to be honored by OSA". Physics Today 24 (1): 85. January 1971. doi:10.1063/1.3022538.
- ↑ Borras, Catherine (26 July 1985). "AAAS Council Meeting, 1985: AAAS Members Elected as Fellows, 30 May 1985". Science 229 (4711): 356. doi:10.1126/science.229.4711.355.
- ↑ "Dorothy VanDeMar Abashian". Roanoke Times. 29–30 October 2009. https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/roanoke/name/dorothy-abashian-obituary?id=28486127. Republished by the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle on 30 October 2009.
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