Alexander Abashian

Alexander Abashian (11 March 1930 – 12 February 2014) was an American particle physicist.

Abashian earned a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University, and served as an adviser to several doctoral students at Virginia Tech. Prior to joining the Virginia Tech faculty, he taught at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and was a member of the research division within the high-energy physics program of the United States Atomic Energy Commission. Abashian was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1969, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1985.

Abashian was married to Dorothy VanDeMar until her death in 2009. The couple raised four children. Abashian died on 12 February 2014.