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List of Armenian scientists

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This is a list of Armenian scientists.

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  • Levon Chailakhyan (1928–2009)  – physiologist and cloning pioneer; produced world's first successfully cloned mammal, mouse "Masha", 10 years before the famous "Dolly"
  • Mikhail Chailakhyan (1902–1991)  – founder of hormonal theory of plant development
  • Karapet Chobanyan (1927–1978)  – mechanical engineer, discovered the phenomenon of Low-Stress in mechanics. Made the first discovery in Armenia and Transcaucasus which was registered in the Soviet Union's discovery registry under the number 102
  • Giacomo Luigi Ciamician (1857–1922) – photochemist, "father of photochemistry and solar energy"

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  • Harry Daghlian (1921–1945)  – physicist who worked and died at the Manhattan Project Los Alamos laboratory
  • Raymond Damadian (1936–2022)  – physician, inventor of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); produced the first MRI scan of the human body
  • Mkhitar Djrbashian (1918–1994)  – mathematician, author of significant contributions to analysis
  • Richard Donchian (1905–1993)  – known as the father of trend following; a pioneer in the field of managed futures; considered to be the creator of the managed futures industry and is credited with developing a systematic approach to futures money management; developed the trend timing method of futures investing and introduced the mutual fund concept to the field of money management

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  • Nikolay Enikolopov (1924–1993) – chemist, one of the founders of Russian polymer science

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  • Gregory M. Garibian (1924–1991)  – physicist, known for developing the Theory of Transition Radiation and showing the feasibility of functional transition radiation detectors (TRDs)
  • Grigor Gurzadyan (1922–2014)  – outstanding astronomer; pioneer of space astronomy; pioneered the construction and use of small space telescopes, 20 years before the Hubble telescope
  • Vahe Gurzadyan (born 1955)  – mathematical physicist

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  • Spiru Haret (1851–1912)  – astronomer, mathematician and politician
  • Mkhitar Heratsi (12th century) – medieval priest and physician; wrote an encyclopedia on medicine; theorized that fever results from internal changes in the body, a revolutionary idea for medieval medicine; his work included psychotherapy, surgery, diet and herbs to cure diseases
  • Paris Herouni (1933–2008) – radio physicist, astronomer; built world's most sophisticated radio telescope; has published over 340 scientific works

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  • Bagrat Ioannisiani (1911–1985)  – engineer, designer of the BTA-6, one of the largest telescopes in the world
  • Andronik Iosifyan (1905–1993)  – aerospace engineer, chief electrician of Soviet missiles and spacecraft, including the R-7 Semyorka and the Soyuz spacecraft
  • Garik Israelian (born 1963)  – astrophysicist; in 1999 provided the first evidence that stellar mass black holes are produced from supernova explosions; founder of Starmus Festivals; awarded gold medal by the Government of Canary Islands

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  • Caro Lucas (1949–2010)  – computer engineer, leader in computer science in Iran
  • Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822–1882)  – pharmacist, one of the world's pioneers of the oil industry, built the world's first modern oil refinery

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  • John Najarian (1927–2020)  – surgeon, pioneer in organ transplantation
  • Aram Nalbandyan (1908–1987)  – physicist, prominent in the field of physical chemistry, founder of the Institute of Chemical Physics in Yerevan, Armenia
  • Robert Nalbandyan (1937–2002)  – chemist; co-discoverer of photosynthetic protein plantacyanin; pioneer in the field of free radicals; leader in sickle cell research and testing methods

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  • Dork Sahagian – climate scientist, contributed to three of four assessment reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (the work of the IPCC, including the contributions of many scientists, was recognised by the joint award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize)
  • Vladimir Sargsyan (1935–2013)  – mathematician, mechanician, founder of physical and geometrical small parameter method
  • Hrayr Shahinian – Director of the Skull Base Institute
  • Kirill Shchelkin (born 1911)  – physicist, in the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons who made theoretical and experimental contribution in combustion and gas dynamics
  • Gagik Shmavonyan (born 1963)  – nanotechnology researcher and professor at the National Polytechnic University of Armenia
  • Luther George Simjian (1905–1997)  – inventor of 200 inventions, including the autofocus camera, ATMs, flight simulator, postage meter, teleprompter, medical ultrasound, golf simulator, meat tenderizer, and color X-ray machine
  • Norair Sisakian (1907–1966)  – biochemist, one of the founders of space biology

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References

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  1. ^ Science, 1973