Prof. Tovmassian published about 140 refereed papers in scientific journals, about 50 papers in the proceedings of International Conferences, 12 books,

including monographs, textbooks for schools and university courses, and popular books being important for popularization of astronomy in Armenia. Among most important are: “Astronomy. Textbook for secondary schools” (1970, 1971, 1973, co- authors: M.A. Arakelian, A.T. Kalloghlian, L.V. Mirzoyan), “Crazy Galaxies” (1974), “Radioastronomy” (1976), “Exploding Worlds” (1979), “Extragalactic radio sources” (1986), and “Radiogalaxies” (1987).

Access to the complete list of refereed papers published in international magazines.

Interview conducted by Woodruff T. Sullivan III on 18 August 1979 at the IAU Meeting in Montreal  

A documentary about cosmic research by ArmTV featuring Prof. Tovmassian among others.     

Here is an article in The Baltimore Sun about Hrant’s move to Mexico in the beginning of 90s.               

Tovmassian was one of the pioneers in efforts to study Extraterrestrial Civilizations.

He was the editor of  Proceedings of the First All-Union Conference on Extraterrestrial Civilizations and Interstellar Communication held in Byurakan,  May 1964 and later in 1971 helped to organize the first international SETI meeting which was sponsored by the Academies of Sciences of both the Soviet Union and the United States.

with Carl Sagan and other participants of SETI conference in 1971.

Hrant Tovmassian had significant contribution in astronomical instrument-making. He was the initiator and direct supervisor of the “Glazar” (launched on the Mir Space Station in 1987) and

“Glazar-2” (1990) space telescopes, the project of “Ashot” (1988) space observatory, the offset  guiding system (1984) and two-channel fast photometer (1987) of “Astron” space observatory.

In 1985, for the space project “Astron” he was awarded the State Prize of the Armenian SSR.

He was a member (1969-1986) of Editorial board and Editor-in-Chief (1986-1991) of "Communications of the Byurakan Observatory", member of editorial boards of "Astrofizika" (1969- 1986) and "Zemlya i Vselennaya" (1975-1996) journals. Tovmassian was a member of BAO Scientific (1969-1992) and Specialized (1976-1992) Councils, Council of All-Union Astronomical- Geodetic Society (VAGO, 1975-1983), Joint USSR NAS and State Space Astronomical council (1978-1991), as well as a number of scientific societies: IAU (1967), EAS (1990), Mexican Scientific Society (1994), and ArAS (2002).