YEREVAN, JULY 11, ARMENPRESS. World-renowned Armenian scientist, academician of the National Academy of Armenia Richard G. Hovhannisyan passed away on July 10, in the city of Los Angeles, US, at the age of 90, Armenian Center for National and International Studies reports.

He was born and raised in Tulare, near Fresno, California, in a family of Armenian Genocide survivors.

Hovannisian received his B.A. in history (1954) from the University of California, Berkeley, and his M.A. in history (1958) and his Ph.D. (1966) from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

In 1986 Richard G. Hovhannisyan was appointed as the first holder of the Armenian Educational Foundation Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History at UCLA. He is the author of the monumental four-volume tome about the First Republic of Armenia (1918-1920), as well as many books on Armenian Genocide.

His son, Raffi Hovannisian, was the first Foreign Minister of the Republic of Armenia