Died the well-known physicist Martiros Lorikyan

Yesterday, on August 14, at the age of 78, died the distinguished physicist Martiros Lorikyan. The name of the experimentalist scientist is firstly linked with the development of nuclear physics, particle physics and cosmic rays in Armenia, as well as with the more fruitful period of Armenia, when the largest electronic accelerator of the USSR was built by Academician Alikhanyan in Yerevan Physics Institute.
With his very first steps in the field of science, Lorikyan very quickly acquired a special notoriety as a specialist, who was able to give clear and simple solutions to complex problems, for which his colleagues said: 'Lorikyan sees wherever we don’t see. "
His first world-famous work has been the detection of the transition radiation and the study of its experimental detection with academician Gharibyan. It was the works of the experimental detection of transition radiation, in which the role of Lorikyan was irreplaceable, that turned Yerevan Physics Institute into a world-famous and leading scientific institution, and Lorikyan’s works became the visit-card of the Institute.
Martiros Lorikyan also had other leading scientific researches and successes recognized by the international scientific community. Nobel Prize award Pavel Cherenkov, who invented the Cherenkov radiation, has repeatedly noted about Lorikyan’s investment in that field of physics.
After leaving Yerevan Physics Institute, Lorikyan undertook the study of new-type detectors, and again shone with his results. Very quickly NASA began to finance his studies of creating lather-shape detectors with secondary emission, in which he was engaged until his death. Alas, Lorikyan wasn’t meant to complete that invention.
Many people think that Gharibyan’s and Lorikyan’s inventions in the field of transition radiation had to be awarded a Nobel Prize.
Martiros Lorikyan was talented in all the fields. He was also a painter, used to write poems and put a philosophical sense in everything.
Narine Ghazaryan