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Benjamin Markarian
Բենիամին Մարգարյան
Markarian on a 2013 Armenian stamp
Born
Benjamin Egishevich Markarian

(1913-11-29)November 29, 1913
DiedSeptember 29, 1985(1985-09-29) (aged 71)
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics

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.

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