ABRAHAM ISAHAKOVICH ALIKHANOV (b. Elisabethpol (now Ganja, Azerbaijan) 20 February 1904 – d. Моscow, 8 December 1970)

Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences, founder and director (1945–1968)

Membership of SASA: Department of Natural Sciences and Mathematics; foreign member from 21 December 1961

Awards and recognitions: USSR State Prize (1941, 1948, 1953); Hero of Socialist Labour (1954); Order of the Red Banner of Labour; Order of Labour of the first degree (Yugoslav decoration).