Benjamin Markarian Explained

Benjamin Markarian
Native Name:Բենիամին Մարգարյան
Birth Name:Benjamin Egishevich Markarian
Birth Date:29 November 1913
Birth Place:Shulaver, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire
Death Place:Yerevan, Armenian SSR, USSR
Field:Astrophysics

Benjamin Egishevich Markarian (Armenian: Բենիամին Եղիշեի Մարգարյան) was an Armenian astrophysicist. Markarian's Chain is a group of galaxies which was named after him when he discovered that its members move with a common motion. He is also the namesake of a catalog of compact, optically bright galaxies (including both starbursts and active galactic nuclei) known as Markarian galaxies.

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