Observatoire de Paris, Solar Department 92195 Meudon CEDEX Phone: 331 45 07 78 00 E-mail: zadig.mouradian@obspm.fr

1. Born in: Bucharest, Romania, in 1930. Left Romania on October 1958.

2. Studies:
– Licentiate's degree: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Bucharest University
– Doctorate thesis in Physical, Sorbonne University of Paris.

3. Some personal data: Married, two children.

4. The most important works:
– First observation of solar magnetic field evolution of an active region 
  before, during and after a solar flare.
– Discovery of material transport by spicules from chromospheres toward corona, 
  the main cause of solar wind.
– Measure of solar extreme limb darkening quoted in "Astrophysical Quantities", 
  issues 1973 and 2000. 
– "Mouradian's Effect" of optical thick spectral lines. The velocity field of 
  the solar atmosphere produces Doppler shift which reduces the optical thickness 
  in the line core.
– Discovery of thermal disappearance of solar prominences by heating.
– Design and building supervision of the 8 m Solar spectrograph set up at Pic du 
  Midi Observatory (Pyrenean Mountains, France), still working.
– Conception and supervision of a computer program for digital recording, analysing 
  and drawing of “Synoptic Maps of Solar Activity” and their publication. The only 
  existing computer controlled synoptic maps in the world.
– Organisation and publication in collaboration with Magda Stavischi, of the first 
  workshop on the observation of total solar eclipse; supported by NATO scientific 
  program (“Theoretical and Observational Problems Related to Solar Eclipses“ – 
  NATO ASI Series C – vol. 494, 1997).
– Finding of a new method for the measure of solar activity rotation rate, which 
  reveals new parameters of solar activity.

5. Scientific fellowship:
Foreign member of the Armenian Academy of Sciences, Armenia
International Astronomical Union
Societe Francaise des Specialistes en Astronomie, France
Academy of Scientists / Academia Oamenilor de Stiinta, Romania

6. Other information:
- Author and co-author of about 160 scientific papers.
- Study for a tower telescope in Romania
- Observation of 7 solar total eclipses
- Solar physics lectures in Bucharest Faculty of Physics
- Five doctoral students
– International collaboration in the field of Solar Physics: Armenia, Bulgaria, 
  China, Japan, Romania, Russia, USA.