Edward Keonjian
Inventor of the first solar-powered, pocket-sized radio transmitter Edward Keonjian was a prominent engineer, an early leader in the field of low-power electronics, the father of microelectronics. In 1954 Keonjian designed the world’s first solar-powered, pocket-sized radio transmitter. In 1959 Keonjian designed the first prototype of integrated circuit. In 1963 he organized the world’s first international symposium on low-power […]
Ivan Knunyants
Pioneer of the synthesis of poly-caprolactam Ivan Lyudvigovich Knunyants was a Soviet chemist of Armenian origin, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, a major general and engineer, who significantly contributed to the advancement of Soviet chemistry. He made more than 200 inventions, many of which used in the Soviet industry. Graduated from Moscow Bauman Highest Technical School (MVTU) 1928, student of Aleksei Chichibabin. […]
Armen Takhtajan
Inventor of the Takhtajan system Armen Leonovich Takhtajan or Takhtajian was a Soviet-Armenian botanist, one of the most important figures in 20th century plant evolution and systematics and biogeography. His other interests included morphology of flowering plants, paleobotany, and the flora of the Caucasus. He was one of the most influential taxonomists of the latter twentieth century. Early life and education Takhtajan was born in Shushi, Russian Empire, present-day disputed Nagorno-Karabakh, on 10 […]
Artem Mikoyan
Inventor of MIG military aircraft Artem (Artyom) Ivanovich Mikoyan was a Soviet Armenian aircraft designer, who cofounded the Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau along with Mikhail Gurevich. Early life and career Mikoyan was born in the village of Sanahin, then part of the Tiflis Governorate of the Russian Empire (today part of Alaverdi in Armenia’s Lori Province) on 5 August 1905. His older brother, Anastas Mikoyan, would become official head of state of […]
Abram Isaakovich Alikhanov (Alikhanian)
Inventor of the first nuclear reactor in the soviet union Abram Isaakovich Alikhanov was a Soviet Armenian experimental physicist who specialized in particle and nuclear physics. He was one of the Soviet Union’s leading physicists. Alikhanov studied X-rays and cosmic rays before joining the Soviet atomic bomb project. Between 1945 and 1968 he directed the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP) in Moscow, which was named after […]
Tina Asatiani
Inventor of the new method of determining the primary energy of broad atmospheric showers Tina Asatiani was an Armenian physicist of Georgian origin. Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia (1996), doctor of physical and mathematical sciences (1971), professor (1974). Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the Armenian SSR (1980). Winner […]
Semyon Kirlian
Inventor of Kirlian photography Semyon Davidovich Kirlian was a Soviet inventor and researcher of Armenian descent, who along with his wife Valentina Khrisanfovna Kirlian, a teacher and journalist, discovered and developed Kirlian photography. First discoveries By 1939 Kirlian had acquired a reputation as the best local resource for repairing electrical equipment, and was regularly called upon to fix the […]
Artem Alikhanian
Discovered the production of electron-positron pairs by internal energy conversion Artem Alikhanian was a Soviet and Armenian physicist, one of the founders and first director of the Yerevan Physics Institute, a correspondent member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1946), academic of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences. With Pyotr Kapitsa, Lev Landau, Igor Kurchatov, Abram Alikhanov and others, he laid the […]
Georges Artsrouni
Inventor of the first translating machine Georges Artsrouni is a French-Armenian engineer, inventor. He is the author of one of the oldest machine translation devices known to history . He was educated in Saint Petersburg . He settled in France since 1922. Artsruni probably created his first device in 1932 and patented it on July 22, 1933 under the name « Mechanical brain » ( cerveau mécanique ). […]
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 […]
