Ernest Arushanov

Ernest Arushanov is a Soviet and Moldovan experimental physicist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova.

He was born and raised in Baku, where in 1958 graduated from the high school. Immediately after graduating from high school arrived in Chiinu, where he entered the Kishinev State University the Physics and Mathematics department. In 1963 after successful graduation from the university he entered the postgraduate department of the same university, resulted in the PhD thesis in the field of semiconductor compounds. In the period from 1967 to 1986 worked as a researcher at the Institute of Applied Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Moldavian SSR, in laboratory of Sergei Ivanovich Radautsan. Then in 1984, defended his doctorhabilitat dissertation. From 1986 to 1988 he was head of the laboratory he created Laboratory of the narrowgap materials. In 1988 he was appointed the Deputy Director of the Institute of Applied Physics. In 1989 Arushanov became professor, and in 1992 he was elected a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova.

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