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Professor Yervant Terzian of Cornell University passed away peacefully in the early hours of November 25, 2019, after a long and debilitating illness.

  • College of Arts and Sciences · Astronomy · An Oral History of the Arecibo Observatory · A Conversation with Yervant Terzian.
  • Terzian, of Greek and Armenian ancestry, was born Feb. 9, 1939, in Alexandria, Egypt.
  • Yervant Terzian was born on February 9, 1939, in Alexandria, Egypt.
  • The samples were then presented to the widow of Sergei Korolev, who.

    • Terzian, of Greek and Armenian ancestry, was born Feb. 9, 1939, in Alexandria, Egypt..

    Yervant Terzian

    American astronomer (1939–2019)

    Yervant Terzian (February 9, 1939 – November 25, 2019) was an American astronomer.

    He was the Tisch Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Cornell University's Department of Astronomy, which he chaired between 1979 and 1999.[1][2]

    Background

    Yervant Terzian was born on February 9, 1939, in Alexandria, Egypt to a Greek mother, Maria (née Kyriakaki), daughter of a fisherman, and an Armenian father, Bedros Terzian, a merchant who survived the Armenian genocide.[3][4][1] He studied at the Kalousdian Armenian School in Cairo and received his B.Sc.

    in physics and mathematics from the American University in Cairo in 1960.[1][4] He then emigrated to the United States and enrolled at Indiana University Bloomington. He received his master's degree in 1963 and completed his Ph.D.

    in astrophysics in 1965.[3][1]

    English was the fifth lan