Sos Isaakovich Alikhanyan (Russian: ??? ????????? ????????; November 26, 1906 – January 26, 1985) — was a Soviet/Armenian geneticist, Professor (1960), Doctor of Biological Sciences (1958), one of the founders of several research directions in the Soviet genetic engineering.
Author of several books on genetics.
Sos Alikhanyan worked at the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow State University, and the State Institute of Genetics and Selection of Industrial Microorganisms.
Geneticist Sos Alikhanian is one of the founders of molecular genetics in the USSR.
Alikhanyan took active part in organizing and directing the national journal "Genetics".