Paris Herouni

Because of his many scientific discoveries, Herouni received numerous awards such as: the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, the Silver Medal of Catholicos of All Armenians (given to him by Vazgen I), the State Prize of Soviet Armenia in the field of Science (1985), the Medal "Veteran of Labour", a Bronze Medal from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France, and the Lomonosov Gold Medal from the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Upon completion of his undergraduate studies in Yerevan, Herouni attended the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, where he earned his graduate degree in radio technology in 1957. He earned his doctorate of philosophy in radio techniques from the same institution in 1965. Herouni became an associate professor in 1968 and a full professor in 1983.

Among his many experiments are his projected, built, and adjusted equipment which was used for the First Radio-Optical Telescope (ROT-54/2.6)—the Herouni Mirror Radio telescope—the large antenna of which with a diameter 54 m (177 ft) has one of the best parameters among all large antennas in the world. He concluded and built an Antenna Parameters and Phase Shift Angle, being the first 11, based on the World National Primary Standards. The "AREV" Project, which is a new type of powerful and ecologically pure solar power plant. He was the first to come across the powerful radio-flare on the Eta Geminorum star, a red giant and the powerful flares associated with that type of star. He also was the first to measure an aperture of an antenna, in the World Radio Hologram. Using this, he designed and built many highly, effective automatic complexes of equipment for NF - FF antenna measurement.

The so-called first Radio-Optical Telescope, operated under the supervision of Herouni, measured the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation as 2.6K which is slightly less than the accepted value of 2.7K. Based on this single measurement, Herouni claimed that " there never was any Big Bang in Universe." This paper entitled 'Measured Parameters of Large Antenna of ROT-54/2.6 Tell about Absence of Big Bang' has only five references, all of which are self-citations.

Paris Misakovich Herouni (Armenian: Պարիս Հերունի, December 17, 1933 – December 5, 2008) was a Soviet and Armenian physicist and engineer. He was a member of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences in the fields of radio-physics, radio-engineering, and radio-astronomy and the head of the Antenna Systems chair, which he founded, at the National Polytechnic University of Armenia and Radio Physics Research Institute (RRI). In 1986, he was awarded the USSR State Prize.

Herouni was born in Yerevan, Armenia, on December 17, 1933. His father was from Hadjin and a survivor of the Armenian genocide.