List of Famous people with last name Orbeli

Leon Orbeli

First Name Leon

Last Name Orbeli

Born on July 7, 1882

Died on December 9, 1958 (aged 76)

Born in Armenia, Kotayk Province

Leon Abgarovich Orbeli was an Armenian physiologist active in the Russian SFSR. He was a member of the Academies of Science of USSR and Armenian SSR. Leon Orbeli became director of the Institute of Physiology in 1950.

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Joseph Orbeli

First Name Joseph

Last Name Orbeli

Born on March 8, 1887

Died on February 2, 1961 (aged 73)

Born in Georgia, Imereti

Joseph Orbeli was a Soviet-Armenian orientalist and academician who specialized in medieval history of Transcaucasia and administered the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad from 1934 to 1951. Of Armenian descent, he was the founder and first president of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences (1943–47).

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