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Armen Sarkissian is a physicist, politician, and former Prime Minister of Armenia. He was born in 1953 in Yerevan, Armenia. He studied physics at Yerevan State University and received his Ph.D. in 1982. He worked as a physicist at the Armenian Academy of Sciences from 1983 to 1991. He entered politics in 1991 and served as Prime Minister of Armenia from 1996 to 1998.