Rafik Badalyan
Rafik Badalyan is an Armenian sculptor, painter, and physico-mathematician.
Biography
Badalyan was born on October 24, 1943, in Yerevan in a military family. He studied at secondary school after Stalin. Rafik entered Yerevan State University in 1962. He studied in physico-mathematical department. During studies he went to serve in Soviet Army. Finishing his service Rafik Badalyan continued his education and graduated from university in 1968. He worked in Polymer Research Institute during Soviet Union. In 1970, he was recalled to serve in the army but this time as an officer. He was trained as an officer in Novosibirsk and Gomel. In 1973, he was demobilized and returned to his previous job. In 1976 he worked in the lab of integral and hybrid microcircuits and sensors in Abovyan. In 1978, he studied in Institute of Electronic Technology in Moscow where received his PhD in Physics. Ha wrote about 50 research papers, monographs and fixed copyright discoveries. His papers were published in Armenia, Russia, Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria.Since 1995 he has been working at Nairit factory in Yerevan.