| Sergey Ambartsumian | |
| Native Name: | Սերգեյ Համբարձումյան |
| Native Name Lang: | hy |
| Birth Date: | 17 March 1922 |
| Birth Place: | Gyumri, Armenia SSR, Soviet Union |
| Death Place: | Yerevan, Armenia |
| Fields: | Mechanics |
| Workplaces: | Armenian National Academy of Sciences Yerevan State University |
| Alma Mater: | National Polytechnic University of Armenia |
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Sergey Aleksandrovich Ambartsumian (Armenian: Սերգեյ Համբարձումյան; 17 March 1922 – 4 August 2018), was a Soviet and Armenian scientist in the field of mechanics, academic and politician, Honored Scientist of the Armenian SSR in 1985.[1]
Sergey Aleksandrovich Ambartsumian was born on 17 March 1922 in the Soviet city of Alexandropol (Gyumri). In 1938 he graduated from secondary school in Yerevan and in 1942 from the Faculty of Construction Mechanics of the Yerevan Polytechnic Institute, where he taught between 1943 and 1948. In 1946 he defended the tesis for Candidate of Sciences and became Doktor nauk in 1952. Between 1946 and 1955 he was the Senior Researcher, Head of Sector, Deputy Director of the Institute of Building Materials and Structures of the Armenian SSR Academy of Sciences.
In 1953 he received the title of professor, becoming member of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR in 1956.[2] Between 1959 and 1970 he was Director of the Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics of the Armenian SSR Academy of Sciences. He was also deputy Chairman of the State Prize Committee since 1970 to 1992.[3]
In 1977 he was elected rector of Yerevan State University, office he held until 1991.[4]
As a politician, he was member of the Supreme Soviet of Armenian SSR at IX convocation (1975–1980) and of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union between 1979–1984 at the X convocation.[5]