Yuri Oganessian
Discoverer of superheavy elements: Flerovium (1999), Livermorium (2000), Oganesson (2002), Moscovium (2003), Nihonium (2004), Tennessine (2009) Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian is a Soviet, Armenian and Russian nuclear physicist who is best known as a researcher of superheavy chemical elements. He participated with the discovery of multiple elements of the periodic table. He succeeded Georgy Flyorov as director of the Flyorov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions […]
Leonid Khachiyan
Inventor of the Ellipsoid method Leonid Genrikhovich Khachiyan was a Soviet and American mathematician and computer scientist. He was most famous for his ellipsoid algorithm (1979) for linear programming, which was the first such algorithm known to have a polynomial running time. Even though this algorithm was shown to be impractical, it has inspired other randomized algorithms for convex programming and is considered a significant theoretical breakthrough. Early […]
Boris Babayan
Pioneering creator of supercomputers in the former Soviet Union Boris Artashesovich Babayan is a Soviet and Russian computer scientist of Armenian descent, notable as the pioneering creator of supercomputers in the former Soviet Union and Russia. Biography Babayan was born in Baku, Soviet Union to an Armenian family. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1957. He completed his Ph.D. in 1964 and his doctorate of science […]
Abraham A. Abrahamyan
Inventor of asynchronous reception of pulse radiolocation signals and Yerevan Singing fountains Abraham A. Abrahamyan – an Armenian Scientist of Radio-electronics, Еngineer-colonel, Doctor of Technical Sciences (1964), Professor (1965). His works were devoted to issues of asynchronous reception of pulse radiolocation signals, the theory of high-frequency asynchronous detection and calculation. Abraham Abrahamyan gathered a team […]
Alexander Kemurdzhian
Aleksandr Leonovich Kemurdzhian was Armenian engineer in the former Soviet space program who worked at the VNIITransmash institute for the most of the second half of the 20th century. He is best known for designing the metal chases for Lunokhod 1— the first ever planetary rover for space exploration in the Soviet space program. Early life Kemurdzhian was born to Armenian parents on 4 October 1921 in Vladikavkaz, today the capital of North Ossetia. His […]
Sergey Mergelyan
Inventor of the Mergelyan’s theorem Sergey Mergelyan was a Soviet and Armenian mathematician, who made major contributions to the Approximation theory. The modern Complex Approximation Theory is based on Mergelyan’s classical work. Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (since 1953), member of NAS ASSR (since 1956). The surname « Mergelov » given at birth was changed for patriotic reasons to the […]
