Gurgen Askaryan
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Soviet physicist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gurgen Ashotovich Askaryan was a prominent Soviet - Armenian physicist, famous for his discovery of the self-focusing of light, pioneering studies of light-matter interactions, and the discovery and investigation of the interaction of high-energy particles with condensed matter.