Sarkis Acopian
Creator in 1957 of the first Solar Radio Is it because of his origins that Sarkis Acopian discovered that the sun could become a formidable source of energy for radio… until people wanted to listen to it at night… Biography Acopian was born in the Iranian city of Tabriz in a family of Armenian refugees […]
Alenush Terian
Mother of modern iranian astronomy Ālenush Teriān (Armenian: Ալենուշ Տէրեան; Persian: آلنوش طریان; also: آلنوش تریان; November 9, 1921 – March 4, 2011) was an Iranian-Armenian astronomer and physicist and is called ‘Mother of Modern Iranian Astronomy’. Biography She was born on November 9, 1921, to an Armenian family in Tehran, Iran. Her father, Arto, […]
Emik Avakian
Inventor of breath-operated computer Emik Avakian was an Armenian American inventor and owner of numerous patents including breath-operated computer, a mechanism that facilitates putting wheelchairs on automobiles, and a self operating robotic wheel that converts manual wheel chairs into automatic. Many of his inventions were geared towards the improvement of disabled people’s lives, and he won many awards […]
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 […]
