Police identified on Monday one of two Russian tourists, who drowned off the coast of the popular resort town Antalya the previous day, as Sarkis Arshavirovich Karamian, a prominent nuclear physicist.
Karamian and a female Russian tourist drowned off the coast of Kemer district on Sunday. Sources said the female tourist was Elena A. Mironova, though authorities did not confirm her identity.
Sarkis Arshavirovich Karamian was a senior researcher at Flerov Nuclear Reaction Laboratory, a department of Dubna Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, which was established in Moscow in 1956 by eleven former Soviet republics. It currently has 18 member states including North Korea, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Vietnam. The institute focuses on theoretical and experimental studies in elementary particle physics, nuclear physics and condensed matter physics, according to its website.
The scientist was awarded several awards for his work in nuclear physics at the height of the Cold War in the 1960s and 70s.
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