List of Azerbaijani scientists and philosophers

This is a comprehensive list of notable Azerbaijani scientists and philosophers , arranged alphabetically.

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Scientists and philosophers

• Ali Abbasov — physicist, specialized in the field of microelectronics
• Hasan Abdullayev — Lenin-prize winning physicist, specialized in the field of semiconductors research, President of the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences in 1970-1983
• Zarifa Aliyeva — ophthalmologist, devised and introduced new methods for treatment of ocular diseases
• Ahliman Amiraslanov — oncologist, professor and rector of Azerbaijan Medical University
• Hamid Arasly — philologist, specialized in Azerbaijani literary studies, history and linguistics
• Adil Asadov — philosopher, specialized in aesthetics, philosophy of thinking, philosophy of politics
• Abbasgulu Bakikhanov — philosopher, historian and writer, founder of Azerbaijani scientific historiography
• Seyid Yahya Bakuvi — scientist and philosopher of the late medieval era in the fields of mathematics and astronomy
• Vagif Guliyev — mathematician, specializes in the fields lie groups and homogeneous spaces
• Zumrud Gulu-zade — philosopher, professor of philosophy at the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences ^[1]
• Elshan Hajizadeh — economic scientist, specialized in the problems of economy and management of fuel and energy complex
• Ashraf Huseynov — mathematician, first to study the nonlinear Hilbert problem as applied to analytic functions, ^[2] created the H_{α, β, γ} function space and proved some theorems for nonlinear singular integral equations with Cauchy kernel within that space ^[2]
• Heydar Huseynov — philosopher, specialized in dialectical materialism
• Nadir Ibrahimov — astrophysicist, astronomer of the Shamakhy Astrophysical Observatory of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Ibragimov crater on Mars is named in his honor
• Hamlet Isakhanli — mathematician, science writer, founder of Khazar University
• Ishag Jafarzadeh — archeologist, a pioneer of archaeology and ethnography in Azerbaijan
• Ali Javan — physicist and inventor at MIT with main contributions in the fields of quantum physics and spectroscopy, co-inventor of the gas laser
• Alexander Kazembek ^{[3] [4] [5] [6]} — philologist, organizer of the Russian Oriental Studies
• George Kechaari — philologist, specialized in the Udi language
• Dzhangir Kerimov — philosopher, specializes in philosophical problems of legal science, social planning and administration, theory of state and law
• Kerim Kerimov ^[7] — rocket scientist, one of the founders of the Soviet space industry, for many years a central figure in the Soviet space program, Hero of Socialist Labor
• Yusif Kerimov — electrical engineer and inventor
• Salahaddin Khalilov — philosopher, specializes in philosophy of science, science about science, philosophical comparativism, phenomenology, philosophical aspects of Eastern and Western Civilizations, philosophy of Abu Turkhan and cognitive theory
• Zahid Khalilov — mathematician and engineer, solved the boundary value problem for polyharmonic equations, proposed abstract generalizations of singular integral operators, ^[8] founder of the Azerbaijani functional analysis school
• Firudin bey Kocharli — philologist, writer and literary critic
• Fuad Mamedov — social scientist, specializes in culturology, founder of Culturology in Azerbaijan, President of Cultural Association Simurgh
• Vasim Mammadaliyev — philosopher and theologian, specializes in oriental studies and Arabic philology
• Yusif Mammadaliyev — chemist, founder of petrochemical science in Azerbaijan
• Garib Mammadov — agronomist
• Yaqub Mammadov — physiologist, specializes in pathophysiology
• Zakir Mammadov — philosopher, specializes in Eastern philosophy, especially history of Azerbaijani philosophy
• Izzet Orujova — chemist, specialized in oil ^[9]
• Mirali Qashqai — geologist in the fields of geomorphology and stratigraphy
• Arif Salimov — mathematician, known for research in differential geometry
• Farman Salmanov ^[10] — geologist, first discovered oil fields in Siberia, Hero of Socialist Labor
• Movlazadeh Mahammad Hasan Shakavi — philosopher, theologian, alim, first Sheikh ul-Islam of the Caucasus, first scholar who translated the Koran into the Azerbaijani language
• Zeynalabdin Shirvani — philosopher, poet, traveller and geographer of the pre-Tsarist era
• Hajibey Sultanov — astronomer
• Lotfi A. Zadeh ^[11] — mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, founder of the fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic

References

1. "Sənətşünaslıq elmləri doktoru Zümrüd Quluzadənin 75 yaşı qeyd olunacaq". APA.az (in Azerbaijani). 27 March 2007. Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 27 July 2011.
2. Azerbaijan Soviet Encyclopedia (1987), vol. 10, p. 285
3. Robert P. Geraci. Window on the East: National and Imperial Identities in Late Tsarist Russia. (Cornell University Press, 2001), 310. ISBN   0-8014-3422-X, 9780801434228
4. Perhaps the only exception before Katanov was A.K. Kazembek, an Azeri who converted to Christianity and became a professor of Turkic languages at Kazan and then at St. Petersburg. Kazembek has been referred to as the first European Turkologist of Turkic origin. Robert P. Geraci. Window on the East: National and Imperial Identities in Late Tsarist Russia. Cornell University Press, 2001. ISBN   0-8014-3422-X, 9780801434228
5. Not a few in the nineteenth century would have accepted this judgment, and might have echoed Mirza Kazem-Bek, the Russified Azerbaijani orientalist, in asking "What European state has such intimate and inherent ties with Asia and Asiatics as does Russia?" Andreas Kappeler, Edward Allworth, Gerhard Simon, Georg Brunner. Muslim Communities Reemerge: Historical Perspectives on Nationality, Politics, and Opposition in the Former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Duke University Press, 1994. ISBN   0-8223-1490-8, ISBN   978-0-8223-1490-5
6. И. Н. Березин, как востоковед, вышел из казанской школы, был учеником… азербайджанца, ираниста А. К. Казембека, который был своеобразной и интересной фигурой. Якубовский А. Ю. Из истории изучения монголов периода XI—XIII вв. — Очерки по истории русского востоковедения. — М., 1953
7. Керимов Керим Аббас-Алиевич (in Russian). Heroes of the country.
8. I. Gohberg, N. Krupnik. One-dimensional linear singular integral equations, vol. 1–2, Birkhäuser, 1992, p. 155
9. "Orucova İzzət Mirzəağa qızı". science.gov.az. Retrieved 2022-08-10.
10. Наталья Лебедева (27 September 2005). Открытие сибирской нефти как полет Гагарина (in Russian). "Российская газета".
11. Betty Blair. "Short Biographical Sketch". Azerbaijan International, Winter 1994 (2.4), page 49. Accessed August 19, 2005.