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

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]
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]

See also

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

References

1. Bournoutian, George (2006). A Concise History of the Armenian People (5th ed.). Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers. p. 54.
2. Sanjian, Avedis K. (1996). "The Armenian Alphabet". In Daniels, Peter T.; Bright, William (eds.). The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press. pp.  356-363. ISBN   9780195079937.
3. 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. Clackson, James (2015). "The languages of Christianity". Language and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds. Cambridge University Press. p. 144. 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. Acharian, Hrachia (1984). Հայոց գրերը [The Armenian Letters]. Հայագիտական հետազոտությունների մատենաշար (in Armenian). Yerevan: Hayastan Publishing. pp. 390–392.
6. Jost, Gippert (2011). "The script of the Caucasian Albanians in the light of the Sinai palimpsests". Die Entstehung der kaukasischen Alphabete als kulturhistorisches Phänomen : Referate des internationalen Symposions (Wien, 1.-4. Dezember 2005) = The creation of the Caucasian alphabets as phenomenon of cultural history. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. pp. 39–50. 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. Spence, Keith; Swayne, Giles, eds. (1981). "Accordion". How Music Works. New York: Macmillan Publishers. pp. 158–159. ISBN   0-02-612870-5. The first mention of the name was in a patent application of an Armenian living in Vienna, Cyrill Demian, in 1829.
8. Gammond, Peter (1991). The Oxford companion to popular music. Oxford University Press. p. 3. ISBN   0-19-3 1 1323-6. Accordion. Piano Accordion. Portable instrument supported in front of the body by a shoulder strap, sounded by free reeds blown by bellows, which has a treble keyboard for the right hand and on the left a series of buttons which operate chords (hence the name of the instrument). One of the earliest forms was the Handdoline which was made in Berlin in 1822 by Friedrich Buschmann. The actual name Akkordion or Accordion was first given to an improved version of this instrument introduced in Vienna by an Armenian, Cyrill Demian, in 1829.
9. Jacobson, Marion S. (2007). "Searching for Rockordion: The Changing Image of the Accordion in America" . American Music. 25 (2): 216–247. doi:10.2307/40071656. ISSN   0734-4392. JSTOR   40071656. The modern accordion, a type of free-reed instrument, can be traced back to the early nineteenth century when the Austrian inventor Cyril Demian patented the device known as akkordeon.
10. Ziółkowska-Boehm, Aleksandra (2013). The Polish Experience Through World War II. Lexington Books. p. 22. 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...
11. 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.
12. Wołkowicz, Stanisław; Graniczny, Marek; Wołkowicz, Krystyna; Urban, Halina (2016). "History of the oil industry in Poland until 1939" . Special Publications. 442. Geological Society of London: 401–411. doi:10.1144/SP442.32. S2CID   132429686. ...the invention of an effective modern kerosene lamp by Ignacy Łukasiewicz in 1853.
13. Groysman, Alec (2014). "History of Crude Oil and Petroleum Products". Corrosion in Systems for Storage and Transportation of Petroleum Products and Biofuels. p. 224. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-7884-9_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.
14. Wilson, J. C. (1934). "Trichromatic Reproduction in Television". Journal of the Royal Society of Arts . 82 (4258): 841–863. ISSN   0035-9114. JSTOR   41360161. The problem of transmitting television images in colours is not a new one. Amongst the early investigators in this field the names of von Bronk1[(1) German Patent No. 155,528 of 1902; (von Bronk).] and Adamian2[(2) British Patent No. 7219/08; (Adamian).] may be mentioned. But it is not until comparatively recently that results have been achieved.
15. Kruk, Boris I.; Sitnikov, Sergey G.; Chupakhina, Natalia A. (November 2010). "The role of Russian scientists in the history of electrical and radio communication development": 1–5. doi:10.1109/HISTEL/CON.2010.5735279 (inactive 1 July 2025). At the beginning of 20th century Russian engineer Adamian created the system of two-colour electromechanical television and in 1925 he created three-colour electromechanical television, which was successfully broadcast in the USSR and the UK.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
16. Ayres, Robert (2021). The History and Future of Technology. Springer International Publishing. p.  379-380. ISBN   9783030713935. An Armenian inventor, Hovannes Adamian (1879-1932), claimed priority. He experimented with color television as early as 1907 and obtained patents in Germany in 1908 (patent number 197183) and then in Britain, France, and Russia.
17. Murray, Susan (2018). Bright Signals: A History of Color Television. Duke University Press. p. 12. ISBN   9780822371700. Six years later [1908], Armenian engineer Hovannes Adamian patented his own mechanical system in Germany, Britain, and France, and then in Russia in 1910. In 1925, Vladimir Zworykin filed a patent for a television system that included a color screen; Adamian demonstrated a three-color system (an advancement on his earlier two-color model) in the United States...
18. Abramson, Albert (1987). The History of Television, 1880 to 1941. London: McFarland. p. 27. ISBN   0-89950-284-9. On April 1, 1908, Johannes Adamian applied for a British patent for color television.
19. Nodjimbadem, Katie (June 15, 2016). "Amazon's Jeff Bezos Honored at Citizenship Ceremony". 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.
20. "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....
21. "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
22. "US994259A: Hair-drier". patents.google.com. Google Patents. 1911-06-06 Application granted
23. "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.
24. "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.
25. Yandell, Benjamin (2001). The Honors Class: Hilbert's Problems and Their Solvers. CRC Press. p. 230. 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.
26. 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.
27. 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.
28. 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...
29. Pilkington, Mark (4 February 2004). "Bodies of light". The Guardian .
30. 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.
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. Israelian, Garik (1997). "Obituary: Victor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian, 1912 [i.e. 1908] -1996". Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 29 (4): 1466–1467. 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. Arakelian, N. U.; Sahakian, A. A. (2008). "Сергей Никитович Мергелян (1928-2008) [Sergey Nikitovich Mergelyan (1928-2008)]". Proceedings of the NAS Armenia: Mathematics (in Russian). 43 (6). National Academy of Sciences of Armenia: 3–5. (archived text)
38. "Mergelyan theorem". Encyclopedia of Mathematics . Archived from the original on 19 July 2020.
39. "Obituaries: Edward Keonjian". apnews.com. Associated Press. September 11, 1999. In 1954, Keonjian designed the world's first solar-powered, pocket-sized radio transmitter. ... Keonjian, an Armenian...^{[ dead link ]}
40. Brown, Pete (October 6, 2009). "Keonjian Distinguished Professorship Honors Life and Work of "Father of Microelectronics"". engr.arizona.edu. University of Arizona. Archived from the original on 14 May 2011. Keonjian was a pioneer of low-power electronics, and in 1954 designed the world's first solar-powered, pocket-sized radio transmitter...
41. "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.
42. Karapetian, Alex (June 2017). "Acopian: Powering the World Behind the Scenes for 60 Years". IEEE Power Electronics Magazine. 4 (2). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers: 103–104. 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.
43. 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
44. Gilpin, Kenneth N. (November 2, 1997). "Luther Simjian Is Dead at 92; Held More Than 200 Patents". New York Times . p. 45. While he was born in Turkey, he was of Armenian descent.
45. 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.
46. Konheim, Alan G. [in German] (2016). "Automated teller machines: their history and authentication protocols". Journal of Cryptographic Engineering. 6: In 1962, Luther Simjian was issued a patent for an early and not-very-successful prototype of an ATM. doi:10.1007/s13389-015-0104-3. S2CID   1706990.
47. Markarian, B.E. (1961). "Physical chain of galaxies in the Virgo cluster and its dynamic instability". Astronomical Journal. 66: 555–557. Bibcode:1961AJ.....66..555M.
48. Mickaelian, Areg M. (October 2013). "Markarian survey and Markarian galaxies". Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. 9: 1–10. doi: 10.1017/S1743921314003147 . S2CID   122731075.
49. 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".
50. 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.
51. 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.
52. Artin, Michael (1969), "Algebraic approximation of structures over complete local rings", Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS , 36 (36): 23–58, doi:10.1007/BF02684596, MR   0268188, S2CID   4617543
53. "Alexander Kemurdjian". The Planetary Society. Archived from the original on 26 January 2020. Alexander Kemurdjian was a pioneering scientist, of Armenian heritage...
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56. Wackers, Frans J. Th. (August 2018). "Michael M. Ter-Pogossian (1925-1996)" . Journal of Nuclear Cardiology . 25 (4): 1090–1091. doi:10.1007/s12350-018-1313-9. PMID   29869324. S2CID   46934249.
57. Saxon, Wolfgang (June 21, 1996). "Michel M. Ter-Pogossian, 71; Led Research on PET Scanner". The New York Times . p. 25.
58. "Michel Ter-Pogossian Honored as Nuclear Medicine Pioneer". The Journal of Nuclear Medicine . 26 (5): 449. May 1985.
59. "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
60. 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...
61. "Raymond Damadian". lemelson.mit.edu. Lemelson–MIT Prize. Archived from the original on 15 August 2021. Developed the first MR (Magnetic Resonance) Scanning Machine
62. Macchia, Richard J.; Termine, Jack E.; Buchen, Charles D. (2007). "Raymond V. Damadian, M.D.: magnetic resonance imaging and the controversy of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine". The Journal of Urology . 178 (1). American Urological Association: 783–5. doi:10.1016/j.juro.2007.05.019. 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.
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76. "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...
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