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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.

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Name Country/citizenship Field Invention/discovery (date)
Mesrop Mashtots Kingdom of Armenia Linguistics Armenian alphabet (c. 405)[1][2]
Georgian alphabet[3][4] (c. 408;[5] disputed)
Caucasian Albanian alphabet[6][3][4] (c. 422)[5]
Cyrill Demian[7][8] Austrian Empire Music Accordion (1829)[9]
Ignacy Łukasiewicz[10][11] Austrian Poland Engineering, chemical the first kerosene lamp (1853)[12]
the first oil refinery (1856)[13]
Hovannes Adamian Russian Empire, Soviet Union Engineering a pioneer of color television, patenting and demonstrating early electromechanical color TV systems (1907—1925)[14][15][16][17][18]
Gabriel Kazanjian[19] United States Engineering, electrical Hand-held hair dryer (1911)[20][21][22]
Stephen Stepanian United States Engineering, industrial Concrete mixer truck (1916)[23][24]
Emil Artin[25][26] Austria-Hungary, Austria, Germany, United States Mathematics Artin L-function (1923)[27]
Semyon Kirlian[28] Soviet Union Photography Kirlian photography (1939)[29]
Artem Mikoyan Soviet Union Engineering, aerospace Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-9, the first Soviet turbo jet fighter (1946)[30]
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]
Sergey Mergelyan[37] Soviet Union Mathematics Mergelyan's theorem (1951)[38]
Edward Keonjian[39] United States Engineering, electrical First solar-powered, pocket-sized radio transmitter (1954)[40]
Sarkis Acopian United States Engineering, electrical Solar-powered radio (1957)[41][42][43]
Luther Simjian[44] United States Engineering, electrical Prototype of automated teller machine (ATM) (1960)[45][46]
Benjamin Markarian Soviet Union Astronomy Markarian's Chain (1961)[47]
Markarian galaxies (1965–80)[48]
Gurgen Askaryan[49] Soviet Union Physics, particle Askaryan effect (1962)[50]
Michael Artin[51] United States Mathematics Artin approximation theorem (1969)[52]
Alexander Kemurdzhian[53] Soviet Union Engineering, aerospace First planetary rover, Lunokhod 1 (1970)[54][55]
Michel Ter-Pogossian[56][57] United States Medicine Positron emission tomography (PET) (1974)[58]
Suren Arakelov[59] Soviet Union Mathematics Arakelov theory (1974)[59]
Raymond Damadian[60] United States Medicine Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) (1977)[61][62][63]
(disputed with Paul Lauterbur)[64][65]
Leonid Khachiyan[66][67] Soviet Union, United States Mathematics Ellipsoid method (1979)[68][69]
George Adomian United States Mathematics Adomian decomposition method (1980s)[70]
Levon Chailakhyan Soviet Union Biophysics the first cloned mammal from an early embryonic cell (1987)[71][72][73]
Albert Kapikian[74][75] United States Medicine Rotavirus vaccine (1997)[76]
Yuri Oganessian[77] Soviet Union, Russia Physics, nuclear Discovery of superheavy elements:[78] Flerovium (1999),[79] Livermorium (2000),[80] Oganesson (2002),[81] Moscovium (2003),[82] Nihonium (2004),[83] Tennessine (2009)[84]
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