Garik Israelian: “El terraplanismo es un problema que debe tratar la psicología, no la astronomía”
Quería ser rockero pero terminó doctorándose en Astrofísica en la Armenia que asistía al hundimiento de la URSS. Aunque trabaja en los observatorios de Tenerife y La Palma, viajará a Teruel para ver el eclipse solar. En Canarias fundó junto con Brian May, guitarrista de Queen, el festival Starmus, una cita única que mezcla ciencia y música por la que han pasado figuras como Neil Armstrong, Alexei…
Garik Israelian, the 63-year-old Armenian astrophysicist, finds himself navigating the Teide summit at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, located 2,930 meters above sea level. As the sun sets over the neighboring island of La Palma and the telescopes commence their movements, Israelian, who previously lived in Utrecht, Brussels, and Sydney, has dedicated his life to unraveling the mysteries of the universe.
In 2010, he shared the prestigious Viktor Ambartsumian award with Michel Mayor and Nuno Santos for their contributions to understanding planetary system formation. Israelian, who invested part of the funding in organizing Starmus, a science and music festival, has long believed that addressing the challenges of "terraforming" – the hypothetical modification of a planet to make it habitable for humans – is a psychological issue, not an astronomical one.
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