Benjamin Markarian

Benjamin Markarian
Birthplace	Shahumyan
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Birth date	29 November 1913
Ethnicities	Armenian
Dialects	Eastern Armenian

Benjamin (Benik) Jegischewitsch Markarjan (born 29 November 1913 in Shahumyan, Armenia; died 29 September 1985) was an Armenian astrophysicist. Markarian's Chain (of galaxies) was named after him when he discovered that this string of galaxies moves with a common motion, in the mid 1970s. He is also the namesake of a catalog of compact, optically bright galaxies (including both starbursts and AGN) known as Markarian galaxies.

External links

• Biography of Benjamin Markarjan

Source: Wikipedia