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The History Museum of Armenia will host a meeting with Ardem Patapoutian, a molecular biologist and Nobel Prize laureate of Armenian descent, on June 14.

At the meeting, the scientist is expected to present a replica of his prize to the museum, it said on Friday.

Ardem Patapoutian and U.S. scientist David Julius won the 2021 Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch.

Ardem Patapoutian was born in 1967 in Beirut, Lebanon. In his youth, he moved from a war-torn Beirut to Los Angeles, USA and received a Ph.D. in 1996 from California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco. Since 2000, he is a scientist at Scripps Research, La Jolla, California where he is now Professor. He is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator since 2014.