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 Armenian alphabet (c. 405)[1][2]
Georgian alphabet[3][4] (c. 408;[5] disputed)
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 solar-powered, pocket-sized 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

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  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
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