Rudolf Muradyan
Soviet physicist
Rudolf Muradovich Muradyan (Armenian: Ռուդոլֆ Մուրադի Մուրադյան; 19 June 1936 – 9 November 2024) was an Armenian theoretical physicist. Rudolf Muradyan's main research relate to theoretical physics, elementary-particle physics, cosmology and the origin of the Universe. Considering the properties of the interaction of elementary particles, he proposed the possibility of large-scale invariance in high-energy physics, from which the "Matveev-Muradyan-Tavkhelidze quark counting rule" is derived especially. He also researched the connection between the appearance of the Universe's rotation and magnetic fields and the cosmological constant. He is the recipient of the 1988 Lenin Prize, along with Albert Tavkhelidze and Viktor Matveev, for the discovery of dimensional quark counting rules.
Biography
Rudolf Muradyan was born on June 19, 1936, in Yerevan, Armenia. After graduating from the Yerevan Secondary School № 25 in 1953, Muradyan entered the Faculty of Physics at Moscow State University in Moscow, graduating in 1959. In 1962 he finished his postgraduate study in the Faculty of Physics of Moscow State University and defended his thesis for a PhD in Physics and Mathematics. He then worked at the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics of the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research (OIJI) in Dubna near Moscow between 1962-1979 (from 1966 as a senior research fellow). In 1970 he was awarded a doctorate in physical-mathematical sciences and appointed professor.
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