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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Maštocʿ also created the Georgian and Caucasian-Albanian alphabets, based on the Armenian model.
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.
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.
The Polish Armenians have become an integral part of our Polish culture. Armenians ancestors ... brought us many famous people, such as: Ignacy Łukasiewicz...
Ten ormiański szlachcic herbu Łada walczył w szeregach Tadeusza Kościuszki.
...the invention of an effective modern kerosene lamp by Ignacy Łukasiewicz in 1853.
...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.
An Armenian immigrant named Gabriel Kazanjian patented the first handheld hairdryer in 1911 in Chicago.
In 1911, the Armenian-American inventor Gabriel Kazanjian received the first patent for a hand-held hair dryer....
In 1911 the first hair dryer was patented by American, Gabriel Kazanjian
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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.
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.
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.
Mike [Artin] explained to me the Armenian origin of the family name, Artinian, which had been shortened in Germany and the United States.
Leading Armenians ... such as Agrippina Vaganova (Vahanian, in Armenian), director of the Maryinsky, later Kirov, Ballet, and author of Fundamentals of the Classic Dance;...
In the Soviet Union, the curriculum developed by the teacher Agrippina Vaganova in the 1930's is applied throughout the country.
Семён Кирлиан появился на свет в большой армянской семье...
The result was the MiG-9, the first Soviet jet fighter.
Along with Demsetz, Armen Alchian is regarded as one of the founders of new institutional economics.
Alchian [...] was also viewed as a pioneer and co-founder of the New Institutional Economics revival, of which UCLA was at the center.
Alchian is best known to younger economists as one of the founders of the New Institutional Economics...
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.
In 1947 he introduced the concept of stellar association into astronomy.
Discovery of Stellar Associations, 1947
Mr. Melikian's parents escaped the 1919 Armenian massacre and immigrated to Philadelphia shortly before he was born.
Okay, so maybe nobody remembers that Melikian and partner Lloyd Rudd invented the coffee vending system...
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.
...in his native Armenia.
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(help)In 1954, Keonjian designed the world's first solar-powered, pocket-sized radio transmitter. ... Keonjian, an Armenian...[ dead link ]
Keonjian was a pioneer of low-power electronics, and in 1954 designed the world's first solar-powered, pocket-sized radio transmitter...
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.
... 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.
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
While he was born in Turkey, he was of Armenian descent.
...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.
All his life Gurgen Ashotovich Askaryan lived and worked in Moscow. He spoke about himself: \I am an Armenian of the Moscow bottling".
This phenomenon is known as the Askaryan effect, after Russian-Armenian physicist Gurgen Askaryan, who first predicted it in 1962.
Emil Artin, born in Vienna, was descended from an Armenian carpet merchant.
Alexander Kemurdjian was a pioneering scientist, of Armenian heritage...
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.
армянин по происхождению ... Основной результат учёного — создание в 1974 году теории, названной его именем — геометрии Аракелова
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...
Developed the first MR (Magnetic Resonance) Scanning Machine
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.
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.
For their independent contributions in conceiving and developing the application of magnetic resonance technology to medical uses including whole body scanning and diagnostic imaging.
Mr. Khachiyan is of Armenian background...
The most common framework is that of Donabedian (1980, 1986, 1988) who conceptualized three quality-of-care dimensions.
Albert Zaven Kapikian was born May 9, 1930, in the Bronx to Armenian immigrants.
The second profound influence was his parents' harrowing escapes from the 1915 Armenian genocide...
Dr. Kapikian is the principal creator of the rotavirus vaccine...
President Sarkissian said he has signed a decree on July 11 on granting Yuri Oganessian a citizenship of Armenia.
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