Gurzadyan was born in 1922 in Baghdad , to parents that survived the Armenian Genocide . Upon graduating from the Hydrotechnical and Constructional Department of Yerevan Polytechnic Institute in 1944 , he became a graduate student of Victor Ambartsumian , who had just moved to Armenia . Being in Ambartsumian ’s founding team of Byurakan Observatory , he later headed a Laboratory , in 1960s became deputy director of the Observatory for space research . Then , he headed the branch of Byurakan observatory on space research . In 1971 he founded and headed the Garni Space Astronomy Laboratory ( Institute , 1992 – 2004 ) . Member of Armenian National Academy of Sciences ( 1986 ; corresponding member 1965 ) , DSci . 1955 , PhD 1948 . His son is Vahe Gurzadyan , mathematical physicist and a professor at Yerevan Physics Institute , whose main research topics are : the chaos in non-linear systems , N-body dynamics , stellar dynamics , Cosmic Microwave Background radiation , observational cosmology
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Grigor Gurzadyan