List of Armenian inventors and discoverers

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

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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]
Alex Manoogian	United States	Plumbing	the first successful single-handle ball valve faucet—Delta faucet (1952)[39][better source needed]
Edward Keonjian[40]	United States	Engineering, electrical	First solar-powered, pocket-sized radio transmitter (1954)[41]
Sarkis Acopian	United States	Engineering, electrical	Solar-powered radio (1957)[42][43][44]
Luther Simjian[45]	United States	Engineering, electrical	Prototype of automated teller machine (ATM) (1960)[46][47]
Benjamin Markarian	Soviet Union	Astronomy	Markarian's Chain (1961)[48] Markarian galaxies (1965–80)[49]
Gurgen Askaryan[50]	Soviet Union	Physics, particle	Askaryan effect (1962)[51]
Michael Artin[52]	United States	Mathematics	Artin approximation theorem (1969)[53]
Alexander Kemurdzhian[54]	Soviet Union	Engineering, aerospace	First planetary rover, Lunokhod 1 (1970)[55][56]
Michel Ter-Pogossian[57][58]	United States	Medicine	Positron emission tomography (PET) (1974)[59]
Suren Arakelov[60]	Soviet Union	Mathematics	Arakelov theory (1974)[60]
Raymond Damadian[61]	United States	Medicine	Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) (1977)[62][63][64] (disputed with Paul Lauterbur)[65][66]
Leonid Khachiyan[67][68]	Soviet Union, United States	Mathematics	Ellipsoid method (1979)[69][70]
George Adomian	United States	Mathematics	Adomian decomposition method (1980s)[71]
Levon Chailakhyan	Soviet Union	Biophysics	the first cloned mammal from an early embryonic cell (1987)[72][73][74]
Albert Kapikian[75][76]	United States	Medicine	Rotavirus vaccine (1997)[77]
Arthur Aykanian	United States	Engineering	the first Plastic Drinking straw[78]
Yuri Oganessian[79]	Soviet Union, Russia	Physics, nuclear	Discovery of superheavy elements:[80] Flerovium (1999),[81] Livermorium (2000),[82] Oganesson (2002),[83] Moscovium (2003),[84] Nihonium (2004),[85] Tennessine (2009)[86]

See also

• List of Armenians
• List of Armenian scientists
• List of Armenian Nobel laureates