Giacomo Luigi Ciamician
Inventor of Photochemistry Giacomo Luigi Ciamician was an Italian-Armenian chemist and senator. He was a pioneer in photochemistry and green chemistry. In 1910 he became the first man born in Trieste to be nominated Senator, in the XXIII Legislation of the Kingdom of Italy. Ciamician studied at Vienna and Giessen, where he received the Ph.D. in 1880. He […]
Hovhannès Althounian
Introducer and first cultivator of madder in the Avignon area Jean-Baptiste Joannis Althen, better simply known as Jean Althen (Hovhannès Althounian; 1709–1774), was an Armenian agronomist from Safavid Iran who developed the cultivation of madder in France. Although the plant had been present in the region before his arrival, it was Jean-Baptiste Althen who developed […]
