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.
Benjamin Markarian | |
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| Բենիամին Մարգարյան | |
 Markarian on a 2013 Armenian stamp | |
| Born | Benjamin Egishevich Markarian November 29, 1913 |
| Died | September 29, 1985 (aged 71) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astrophysics |
External links
edit- Beniamin Markarian, Armenian Astronomical Society (ArAS)
- Beniamin Markarian, Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers (2007)
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