Alenush Terian who was the first woman astronomer


At last she left homeland for France, by her father’s financial support, where in 1956 she obtained her doctorate in atmospheric physics from Sorbonne University. Upon this she returned to homeland and became assistant professor in thermodynamics at University of capital. Later she worked in solar physics in the then West Germany for a period of four months through a scholarship that was awarded by the German government to University of capital. In 1964 Teriān became the first female professor of physics in homeland.