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)Georgian alphabet (c. 408; disputed)Caucasian Albanian alphabet (c. 422)Cyrill DemianAustrian EmpireMusicAccordion (1829) Ignacy Łukasiewicz Austrian Poland Engineering, chemical the first kerosene lamp (1853)the first oil refinery (1856)Hovannes AdamianRussian Empire, Soviet UnionEngineering a pioneer of color television, patenting and demonstrating early electromechanical color TV systems (1907—1925) Gabriel Kazanjian United States Engineering, electrical Hand-held hair dryer (1911) Stephen Stepanian United States Engineering, industrial Concrete mixer truck (1916) Emil Artin Austria-Hungary, Austria, Germany, United States Mathematics Artin L-function (1923) Semyon Kirlian Soviet Union Photography Kirlian photography (1939) Artem Mikoyan Soviet Union Engineering, aerospace Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-9, the first Soviet turbo jet fighter (1946) Victor Ambartsumian Soviet Union, Armenia Astronomy Stellar association (1947) Cyrus Melikian United States Engineering, electrical Coffee vending machine (1947; with Lloyd Rudd) Sergey Mergelyan (archived text) Soviet Union Mathematics Mergelyan's theorem (1951) Edward Keonjian United States Engineering, electrical First solar-powered, pocket-sized radio transmitter (1954) Sarkis Acopian United States Engineering, electrical Solar-powered radio (1957) Congressional Record, Volume 153, Number 21 (Monday, February 5, 2007), Pages H1173-H1174 Luther Simjian United States Engineering, electrical Prototype of automated teller machine (ATM) (1960) Benjamin Markarian Soviet Union Astronomy Markarian's Chain (1961)Markarian galaxies (1965–80) Gurgen Askaryan Soviet Union Physics, particle Askaryan effect (1962) Michael Artin United States Mathematics Artin approximation theorem (1969) Alexander Kemurdzhian Soviet Union Engineering, aerospace First planetary rover, Lunokhod 1 (1970) Michel Ter-Pogossian United States Medicine Positron emission tomography (PET) (1974) Suren Arakelov Soviet Union Mathematics Arakelov theory (1974) Raymond Damadian United States Medicine Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) (1977)(disputed with Paul Lauterbur) Leonid Khachiyan (archived PDF) "Of Armenian descent, Khachiyan was born on May 3, 1952, in St. Petersburg..." Soviet Union, United States Mathematics Ellipsoid method (1979) George Adomian United States Mathematics Adomian decomposition method (1980s) Levon Chailakhyan Soviet Union Biophysics the first cloned mammal from an early embryonic cell (1987) Albert Kapikian United States Medicine Rotavirus vaccine (1997) Yuri Oganessian Soviet Union, Russia Physics, nuclear Discovery of superheavy elements:() Flerovium (1999), Livermorium (2000), Oganesson (2002), Moscovium (2003), Nihonium (2004), Tennessine (2009)
See also List of Armenians List of Armenian scientists List of Armenian Nobel laureates
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