List of Bulgarian inventors and discoverers

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This is a List of Bulgarian inventors and discoverers, working locally or overseas, and also a list of Bulgarian inventions and creations. The list comprises people from Bulgaria and also people of predominantly Bulgarian heritage.

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Art and architecture

Medicine and pharmacology

Literature and education

The Cyrillic Alphabet created in the Pliska-Preslav Literary School, used by most Slavic people (right). Its predecessor - the Glagolitic alphabet by Sts. Cyril and Methodius (left). Cyrillic Alphabet as invented by St. Clement of Ohrid.jpg
The Cyrillic Alphabet created in the Pliska-Preslav Literary School, used by most Slavic people (right). Its predecessor – the Glagolitic alphabet by Sts. Cyril and Methodius (left).
One of the 366 miniatures of the Tetraevangelia of Ivan Alexander (1355-1356) - one of the most famous works of the Tarnovo Literary School Ivan ALexander and his family Tetraevangelia.jpg
One of the 366 miniatures of the Tetraevangelia of Ivan Alexander (1355–1356) – one of the most famous works of the Tarnovo Literary School
Elias Canetti, Nobel laureate in Literature (1981) Elias Canetti 2.jpg
Elias Canetti, Nobel laureate in Literature (1981)

Technology and aviation

Assen Jordanoff, inventor, engineer, and aviator-pioneer Asen Jordanov.png
Assen Jordanoff, inventor, engineer, and aviator-pioneer

Science

Prof. Georgi Nadjakov discovered the photoelectrets. Gsnadjakov.jpg
Prof. Georgi Nadjakov discovered the photoelectrets.
Prof. Ivan Stranski, the father of the kinetic theory of crystal growth (1940) Ivan Stranski professor 1940.jpg
Prof. Ivan Stranski, the father of the kinetic theory of crystal growth (1940)

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