List of Armenian inventors and discoverers

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The following list contains notable inventions and discoveries made by ethnic Armenians, including those not born or living in modern-day Armenia and those of partial Armenian ancestry.

List

Default sorted chronologically

Name Country/citizenship Field Invention/discovery (date)
Mesrop Mashtots Kingdom of Armenia Linguistics
Caucasian Albanian alphabet[6][3][4] (c. 422)[5]
Ignacy Łukasiewicz[7][8] Austrian Poland Engineering, chemical First kerosene lamp (1853)[9]
First oil refinery (1856)[10]
Gabriel Kazanjian[11] United States Engineering, electrical Hand-held hair dryer (1911)[12][13][14]
Stephen Stepanian United States Engineering, industrial Concrete mixer truck (1916)[15][16]
Emil Artin[17][18] Austria, United States Mathematics Artin L-function (1923)[19]
Agrippina Vaganova[20] Russian Empire, Soviet Union Arts Vaganova method (1930s)[21]
Semyon Kirlian[22] Soviet Union Photography Kirlian photography (1939)[23]
Artem Mikoyan Soviet Union Engineering, aerospace Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-9, the first Soviet turbo jet fighter (1946)[24]
Armen Alchian[25] United States Economics New institutional economics (with Ronald Coase and Harold Demsetz)[30] (1946–84)
Victor Ambartsumian
 Soviet Union, Armenia Astronomy Stellar association (1947)[31][32]
Cyrus Melikian[33] United States Engineering, electrical Coffee vending machine (1947; with Lloyd Rudd)[34][35][36]
Armen Takhtajan[37] Soviet Union,
Russia, Armenia 		Botany Takhtajan system (1950)[38]
Sergey Mergelyan[39] Soviet Union Mathematics Mergelyan's theorem (1951)[40]
Edward Keonjian[41] United States Engineering, electrical First
radio transmitter (1954)[42]
Sarkis Acopian Soviet Union Engineering, electrical Solar-powered radio (1957)[43][44][45]
Luther Simjian[46] United States Engineering, electrical Prototype of automated teller machine (ATM) (1960)[47][48]
Benjamin Markarian Soviet Union Astronomy Markarian's Chain (1961)[49]
Markarian galaxies (1965–80)[50]
Gurgen Askaryan[51] Soviet Union Physics, particle Askaryan effect (1962)[52]
Michael Artin[53] United States Mathematics Artin approximation theorem (1969)[54]
Alexander Kemurdzhian[55] Soviet Union Engineering, aerospace First planetary rover, Lunokhod 1 (1970)[56][57]
Michel Ter-Pogossian[58][59] United States Medicine Positron emission tomography (PET) (1974)[60]
Suren Arakelov[61] Soviet Union Mathematics Arakelov theory (1974)[61]
Raymond Damadian[62] United States Medicine Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) (1977)[63][64][65]
(disputed with Paul Lauterbur)[66][67]
Leonid Khachiyan[68][69] Soviet Union, United States Mathematics Ellipsoid method (1979)[70][71]
Avedis Donabedian[75] United States Healthcare Donabedian model (1980–88)[76]
George Adomian United States Mathematics Adomian decomposition method (1980s)[77]
Albert Kapikian[78][79] United States Medicine Rotavirus vaccine (1997)[80]
Yuri Oganessian[81] Soviet Union, Russia Physics, nuclear
Discovery of superheavy elements:[82] Flerovium (1999),[83] Livermorium (2000),[84] Oganesson (2002),[85] Moscovium (2003),[86] Nihonium (2004),[87] Tennessine (2009)[88]

See also

References

  1. ^ Bournoutian, George (2006). A Concise History of the Armenian People (5th ed.). Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers. p. 54.
  2. ISBN 9780195079937
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  3. ^ a b J. R. Russell. "Alphabets". In Bowersock, G. W.; Brown, Peter; Grabar, Oleg (eds.). Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World. p. 289. Maštocʿ also created the Georgian and Caucasian-Albanian alphabets, based on the Armenian model.
  4. ^
    ISBN 9780521192354
    . Having discovered his talent for script creation, Mesrop also invented distinctive new alphabets for the Georgians, and for the Caucasian Albanians, acts of generosity still frequently unacknowledged.
  5. ^ a b Acharian, Hrachia (1984). Հայոց գրերը [The Armenian Letters]. Հայագիտական հետազոտությունների մատենաշար (in Armenian). Yerevan: Hayastan Publishing. pp. 390–392.
  6. ISBN 9783700170884
    . Nevertheless, the"Armenian" basis of the alphabet seems clear enough, thus confirming the historical tradition which attributes the invention of the Albanian script to Mesrop Maštoc.
  7. ISBN 978-0-7391-7819-5
    . The Polish Armenians have become an integral part of our Polish culture. Armenians ancestors ... brought us many famous people, such as: Ignacy Łukasiewicz...
  8. ^ Puda-Blokesz, Magdalena (20 July 2011). "Ignacy Łukasiewicz" (PDF). chemia.zamkor.pl (in Polish). ZamKor. p. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 October 2014. Ten ormiański szlachcic herbu Łada walczył w szeregach Tadeusza Kościuszki.
  9. S2CID 132429686
    . ...the invention of an effective modern kerosene lamp by Ignacy Łukasiewicz in 1853.
  10. ISBN 978-94-007-7884-9
    . ...the Polish pharmacist Jan Józef Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822–1882) residing in Lvov and who built in 1856 probably the first oil refinery in the world.
  11. Smithsonian Magazine. Smithsonian Institution. Archived from the original
    on 20 May 2021. An Armenian immigrant named Gabriel Kazanjian patented the first handheld hairdryer in 1911 in Chicago.
  12. ^ "A Lot of Hot Air". The New York Times. 28 April 2016. In 1911, the Armenian-American inventor Gabriel Kazanjian received the first patent for a hand-held hair dryer....
  13. ^ "Hair dryer". maas.museum. Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences. Archived from the original on 18 August 2021. In 1911 the first hair dryer was patented by American, Gabriel Kazanjian
  14. ^ "US994259A: Hair-drier". patents.google.com. Google Patents. 1911-06-06 Application granted
  15. ^ "Stephen Stepanian portrait". Columbus Metropolitan Library. 25 November 2020. Archived from the original on 15 August 2021. Stepanian was the inventor of the motor-truck concrete mixer and is the "father" of the ready-mixed concrete industry. Stepanian designed a self-discharging motorized concrete transit mixer in 1916.
  16. ^ "Ready Mixed Concrete". cement.org. Portland Cement Association. Archived from the original on 12 August 2021. In 1916, Stephen Stepanian of Columbus, Ohio, developed a self-discharging motorized transit mixer that was the predecessor of the modern ready-mixed concrete truck.
  17. ISBN 9781439864227
    . Emil Artin was born on March 3, 1898, in Vienna, the son of an art dealer and grandson of an Armenian merchant of handmade rugs.
  18. ^ Faith, Carl (2004). Rings And Things And A Fine Array Of Twentieth Century Associative Algebra (Mathematical Surveys and Monographs Volume 65). American Mathematical Society. p. 353. Mike [Artin] explained to me the Armenian origin of the family name, Artinian, which had been shortened in Germany and the United States.
  19. ^ Cogdell, James (2007). "On Artin L-functions" (PDF). people.math.osu.edu. Ohio State University Department of Mathematics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 May 2021.
  20. ^ Walker, Christopher J. (22 August 1981). "Dispersed. Review of The Armenians: A People in Exile David Marshall Lang (Allen and Unwin pp.203, 12.95)". The Spectator. No. 247. p. 22. Leading Armenians ... such as Agrippina Vaganova (Vahanian, in Armenian), director of the Maryinsky, later Kirov, Ballet, and author of Fundamentals of the Classic Dance;...
  21. ^ Kisselgoff, Anna (June 16, 1987). "WITH AN OPEN MIND, CLAUDE BESSY MOLDS PARIS BALLET SCHOOL'S FUTURE". The New York Times. In the Soviet Union, the curriculum developed by the teacher Agrippina Vaganova in the 1930's is applied throughout the country.
  22. ^ Ponomarev, Fedor (26 February 2020). ""Пошёл дальше Теслы». Кем был изобретатель «эффекта Кирлиана"". kuban.aif.ru (in Russian). Argumenty i Fakty. Archived from the original on 7 August 2021. Семён Кирлиан появился на свет в большой армянской семье...
  23. ^ Pilkington, Mark (4 February 2004). "Bodies of light". The Guardian.
  24. ^ Schuster, Carl O. (2015) [1999]. "Mikoyan, Artem Ivanovich". In Zabecki, David T. (ed.). World War II in Europe: An Encyclopedia. Routledge. p. 415. The result was the MiG-9, the first Soviet jet fighter.
  25. ^ ""The Armenian Adam Smith": UCLA Holds Conference in Honor of Armenian Economist". Asbarez. May 26, 2006. Archived from the original on 11 January 2020.
  26. ISBN 9781135131906
    . Along with Demsetz, Armen Alchian is regarded as one of the founders of new institutional economics.
  27. ISBN 978-1-137-34128-0
    . Alchian [...] was also viewed as a pioneer and co-founder of the New Institutional Economics revival, of which UCLA was at the center.
  28. ^ Benjamin, Daniel (February 19, 2013). "In Memoriam: Armen Alchian (1914 – 2013)". Property and Environment Research Center. Archived from the original on 14 September 2021. Alchian is best known to younger economists as one of the founders of the New Institutional Economics...
  29. ^ Higgs, Robert (February 19, 2013). "Armen Alchian (April 12, 1914 – February 19, 2013)". Independent Institute. Archived from the original on 7 January 2020. Yet, aside from Ronald Coase, no one had a greater influence in creating and fostering what has come to be known as the New Institutional Economics, one of the most notable improvements in mainstream economics during the past half century.
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  31. ^ Saxon, Wolfgang (15 August 1996). "Viktor A. Ambartsumyan, 87, Expert on Formation of Stars". The New York Times. p. 22. In 1947 he introduced the concept of stellar association into astronomy.
  32. Bibcode:1997BAAS...29.1466I
    . Discovery of Stellar Associations, 1947
  33. ^ "K. Cyrus Melikian, an inventor with a coffee focus". The Philadelphia Inquirer. December 5, 2008. Archived from the original on 12 August 2021. Mr. Melikian's parents escaped the 1919 Armenian massacre and immigrated to Philadelphia shortly before he was born.
  34. ^ Knight, Jerry (April 11, 1988). "THE ULTIMATE FRENCH FRY MACHINE". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 15 August 2021. Okay, so maybe nobody remembers that Melikian and partner Lloyd Rudd invented the coffee vending system...
  35. ^ "MACHINE TO SERVE HOT COFFEE SHOWN; Developed by Rudd-Melikian, Big Demand Seen by Schools, Factories and Cafeterias". The New York Times. September 25, 1947.
  36. ^ Hicks, James L. (January 17, 1948). "Veteran's Whirl". The Ohio State News. Columbus, Ohio. p. 14. Archived from the original on 15 August 2021. Take the case of Lloyd Rudd and Cyrus Melikian. They were shivering in a railroad station one day when they walked up to a vending machine which was dishing out cold drinks for a nickel. "This damn thing should be giving out hot coffee instead of cold drinks," Rudd said. "That's an idea," said Melikian, and the two men invented "Kwik Kafe" hot coffee vending machine.
  37. ^ Stevens, William K. (April 6, 1993). "SCIENTIST AT WORK: Armen Takhtajan; Botanist Plans Survey of World's Flowers". The New York Times. ...in his native Armenia.
  38. ^ Gabrielyan, Ivan; Kovar-Eder, Johanna (October 2009). "In memoriam Armen Leonovich Takhtajan" (PDF). IOP Newsletter. 91. International Organisation of Palaeobotany (International Union of Biological Sciences): 8–9. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-10-23.
  39. National Academy of Sciences of Armenia: 3–5. (archived text
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  43. ^ "Sarkis Acopian". muhlenberg.edu. Muhlenberg College. Archived from the original on 18 February 2020. In 1957, he took out a loan from a local bank and began his journey. That same year he designed and manufactured the first ever solar radio.
  44. doi:10.1109/MPEL.2017.2692478
    . ... Sarkis Acopian ... developed something that is in wide use today—the solar radio. It was the first recorded solar-powered radio ever manufactured for commercial use.
  45. ^ Dent, Charlie. "Honoring Sarkis Acopian". govinfo.gov. United States Government Publishing Office. Archived from the original on 17 August 2021. After forming the Acopian Technical Company in 1957, he designed and manufactured the first ever solar radio. Congressional Record, Volume 153, Number 21 (Monday, February 5, 2007), Pages H1173-H1174
  46. New York Times
    . p. 45. While he was born in Turkey, he was of Armenian descent.
  47. ^ Bandon, Alexandra (January 4, 1998). "The Lives They Lived; Make It New". The New York Times. p. 40. ...his most famous invention was a 1960 bank-deposit machine that was the basis for the now-ubiquitous A.T.M., from which he never made a penny.
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  49. Bibcode:1961AJ.....66..555M
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  51. ^ Bolotovskii, Boris (November 2000). "Reminiscences of Gurgen Askaryan". RADHEP-2000: First International Workshop on Radio Detection of High-Energy Particles. University of California, Los Angeles. Archived from the original on 20 October 2020. All his life Gurgen Ashotovich Askaryan lived and worked in Moscow. He spoke about himself: \I am an Armenian of the Moscow bottling".
  52. ^ Miller, Katrina (April 27, 2021). "Searching for the Universe's Most Energetic Particles, Astronomers Turn on the Radio". Scientific American. Archived from the original on 17 August 2021. This phenomenon is known as the Askaryan effect, after Russian-Armenian physicist Gurgen Askaryan, who first predicted it in 1962.
  53. ^ Robertson, Edmund; O'Connor, John. "Michael Artin". MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive. University of St Andrews. Archived from the original on 30 April 2021. Emil Artin, born in Vienna, was descended from an Armenian carpet merchant.
  54. S2CID 4617543
  55. ^ "Alexander Kemurdjian". The Planetary Society. Archived from the original on 26 January 2020. Alexander Kemurdjian was a pioneering scientist, of Armenian heritage...
  56. ISBN 9781587655265
    . Kemurdzhian, Alexander (October 4, 1921 -February 25, 2003): Russian. Kemurdzhian designed Lunokhod 1, the first space-exploration rover, which roamed on the Moon in 1970.
  57. ISBN 9780387739762
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  58. S2CID 46934249
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  59. ^ Saxon, Wolfgang (June 21, 1996). "Michel M. Ter-Pogossian, 71; Led Research on PET Scanner". The New York Times. p. 25.
  60. ^ "Michel Ter-Pogossian Honored as Nuclear Medicine Pioneer". The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 26 (5): 449. May 1985.
  61. ^ a b "Аракелов Сурен Юрьевич". tsput.ru (in Russian). Tula State Pedagogical University named after L. N. Tolstoy. Archived from the original on 24 November 2022. армянин по происхождению ... Основной результат учёного — создание в 1974 году теории, названной его именем — геометрии Аракелова
  62. ^ Edson, Lee (February 6, 1986). "Books: Beyond X-rays". The New York Times. He is Dr. Raymond Damadian, the son of an Armenian-born father and a French-Armenian mother, and the inventor of the nuclear magnetic resonance scanner...
  63. ^ "Raymond Damadian". lemelson.mit.edu. Lemelson–MIT Prize. Archived from the original on 15 August 2021. Developed the first MR (Magnetic Resonance) Scanning Machine
  64. PMID 17631325
    . The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine can be awarded to a maximum of 3 scientists for any single discovery but in this instance was only given to 2. Excluding Doctor Damadian seems to be a serious and purposeful omission.
  65. ISSN 1430-4171. Archived from the original
    on 2017-11-10. This article surveys previous contributions to nuclear magnetic resonance for which Nobel Prizes were awarded, explores Damadian's personal and professional career, and concludes that Damadian's seminal discovery preceded and was more fundamental than Lauterbur's developments.
  66. ^ Wade, Nicholas (October 11, 2003). "Doctor Disputes Winners of Nobel in Medicine". The New York Times.
  67. National Medal of Technology. Archived from the original
    on 15 January 2021. For their independent contributions in conceiving and developing the application of magnetic resonance technology to medical uses including whole body scanning and diagnostic imaging.
  68. ^ "World Renowned Computer Scientist Leonid G. Khachiyan Dies at 52". Rutgers University Department of Computer Science. Archived from the original on 2016-09-11. (archived PDF) "Of Armenian descent, Khachiyan was born on May 3, 1952, in St. Petersburg..."
  69. ^ Whitney, Craig R. (November 27, 1979). "Soviet Mathematician Is Obscure No More". The New York Times. Mr. Khachiyan is of Armenian background...
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  80. ^ "Vaccine for a Global Childhood Illness Passes Last Big Hurdle". The New York Times. (via Associated Press). October 23, 1997. Dr. Kapikian is the principal creator of the rotavirus vaccine...
  81. ^ "President Armen Sarkissian hosts academician Yuri Oganessian". Armenpress. 12 July 2018. Archived from the original on 14 July 2018. President Sarkissian said he has signed a decree on July 11 on granting Yuri Oganessian a citizenship of Armenia.
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