‘Happy for the Armenian nation to have some good news to celebrate’: Ardem Patapoutian congratulates Daron Acemoglu on receiving Nobel Prize

Ardem Patapoutian, the US-based molecular biologist, neuroscientist, Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine, and member of the American Philosophical Society, congratulated American scientist of Armenian descent Daron Acemoglu on receiving the Nobel Prize in Economics.

“Reading up on Daron Acemoglu. We were both born in 1967, a month apart, and went to the West for school. His mom was the principal of an Armenian school in Istanbul. Same here (but in Beirut)! His likely last name in Armenian is Ajemian, my mom’s maiden name. What’s going on?

Daron Acemoglu, born in Istanbul to Armenian parents, shares the Nobel Prize in Economics. Congratulations Daron! So happy for the nation of Armenia to have some good news to celebrate,” Patapoutian said in a post on X.