Armais Arutunoff
Inventor of the technology for oil drilling Armais Sergeevich Arutunoff was an inventor of technology for oil drilling. He was born in Tiflis, then part of the Russian Empire, into an Armenian family. He emigrated to the United States in 1923, and moved to Oklahoma in 1928, where he started a company to build an electric submersible pump for use at the bottom of oil boreholes. Before […]
Emil Artin (Artinian)
Co-founder of modern abstract algebra Emil Artin was an Austrian mathematician of Armenian descent. Artin was one of the leading mathematicians of the twentieth century. He is best known for his work on algebraic number theory, contributing largely to class field theory and a new construction of L-functions. He also contributed to the pure theories of rings, groups and fields. Along with Emmy Noether, he is […]
Harry G. Tatosian
Inventor of the ice cream cone machine Harry Tatosyan is an Armenian-American inventor who created the ice cream cone machine and a number of other devices for the food industry. Co-founder of Old London Foods. Old London Foods The company was founded as a manufacturer of food machinery by Harry Tatosian, who invented the machines, […]
Varaztad Kazanjian
Founder of the modern practice of plastic surgery Varaztad H. Kazanjian was an Armenian American oral surgeon who pioneered techniques for plastic surgery and is considered to be the founder of the modern practice of plastic surgery. He graduated from Harvard School of Dental Medicine in 1905. He served as professor of oral surgery from 1922 to 1939 and he was the first to hold […]
Gabriel Ghazanchyan
Inventor of hair dryer Gabriel M. Kazanjian, an American-Armenian inventor, creator of hair dryer, was born in 1858. In 1911, Gabriel Ghazanchian received the first US patent for a hand hair dryer, and in the 1920s, early portable metal models appeared on the market. At first, Ghazanchian’s hair dryer was a slow-moving, heavy device (weighing about two pounds , about 1 […]
Avedis Zildjian
Founder of Avedis Zildjian Company (Inventor of non shattering cymbals) The Avedis Zildjian Company, simply known as Zildjian is a musical instrument manufacturer specializing in cymbals and other percussion instruments. Founded by the ethnic Armenian Zildjian family in the 17th-century Ottoman Empire, the company relocated to the United States in the 20th century. Today, it is the largest cymbal and drumstick maker in the world. The company […]
