Garik Israelian

Garik Israelian
Born1963 (age 6162)
NationalityArmenian, Spanish
Alma materYerevan State University
AwardsViktor Ambartsumian International Prize (2010), The Canary Islands Gold Medal (2014)
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics, Spectroscopy
InstitutionsInstituto de Astrofisica de Canarias

Garik Israelian (Armenian: Գարիկ Իսրայելյան, born 1963) is an Armenian-Spanish astrophysicist and co-founder of the Starmus Festival. In 1999, Israelian and colleagues presented the first observational evidence that supernova explosions were responsible for the formation of stellar-mass black holes.