Rafael Ghazaryan was an Armenian radio-physicist, academician, public activist, a member of Karabakh Committee

Karabakh Committee

Karabakh Committee was a group of Armenian intellectuals recognized by many Armenians as their de facto leaders in the late 1980s. The Committee was formed in 1988 with the stated objective of the reunification of Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia...

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Ghazaryan was a World War II

World War II

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 veteran. He is an author of a number of works on radiophysics

Radiophysics

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, laser atmosphere technics and light modulation, a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia. He was the founder of laser technics cafedras at Yerevan State University

Yerevan State University

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 and Yerevan Polytechnic Institute

State Engineering University of Armenia

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In 1988, along with other members of Karabakh Committee, he was arrested by Soviet authorities.

In 1989, he became the vice-president of the Supreme Council (parliament) of Armenian SSR

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, in 1990-95 he headed the parliamentarian Committee of Science and Education. He was also the director of Engineering Center "Mashtots".

In his final years, he was one of the leaders of the “Intellectual Forum” (Armenia

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