Alexis Ohanian
Founder of Reddit Alexis Kerry Ohanian is an American internet entrepreneur and investor. He is best known as the co-founder and former executive chairman of the social media site Reddit along with Steve Huffman and Aaron Swartz. He also co-founded the early-stage venture capital firm Initialized Capital, helped launch the travel search website Hipmunk, and started the social enterprise Breadpig. He was also a […]
Albert Kapikian
Inventor of the first licensed vaccine against rotavirus Albert Zaven Kapikian (1930–2014) was an Armenian-American virologist who developed the first licensed vaccine against rotavirus, the most common cause of severe diarrhea in infants. He was awarded the Sabin Gold Medal for his pioneering work on the vaccine. He is the 13th recipient of this recognition, awarded annually by the Sabin Vaccine Institute. Called the father of […]
Sal Soghoian
AppleScript and Automator developer Sal Soghoian is a user automation expert, software developer, author and musician. He joined Apple Inc. in January 1997 to serve as the Product Manager of Automation Technologies. These technologies include AppleScript, Services, the Terminal, Apple Configurator and Automator, among others. He left Apple in 2016 when his position was eliminated. […]
Avie Tevanian
Designer of the famous MacOS Avadis « Avie » Tevanian (born 1961) is an American-Armenian software engineer. At Carnegie Mellon University, he was a principal designer and engineer of the Mach operating system (also known as the Mach Kernel). He leveraged that work at NeXT Inc. as the foundation of the NeXTSTEP operating system. He was senior […]
George Adomian
Inventor of the Adomian decomposition method for solving nonlinear differential equations George Adomian (March 21, 1922 – June 17, 1996) was an American mathematician of Armenian descent who developed the Adomian decomposition method (ADM) for solving nonlinear differential equations, both ordinary and partial. The method is explained, among other places, in his book Solving Frontier […]
James Philip Bagian
First armenian astronaut James Philip Bagian, is an American physician, engineer, and former NASA astronaut of Armenian descent. During his career as an astronaut, he logged 337 hours of space-flight, over two missions, STS-29 (in 1989) and STS-40 (in 1991). After leaving NASA in 1995, Bagian was elected as a member of the Institute of […]
Raymond Damadian
Inventor of first nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) scanning machine Raymond Vahan Damadian was an American physician, medical practitioner, and inventor of the first nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) scanning machine. Damadian’s research into sodium and potassium in living cells led him to his first experiments with nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) which caused him to first propose the MR body scanner in 1969. […]
John Najarian
Organ transplant pioneer John Sarkis Najarian was an American transplant surgeon and clinical professor of transplant surgery at the University of Minnesota. Najarian was a pioneer in thoracic transplant surgery. Early life Najarian was born in Oakland, California to Armenian immigrants. He studied medicine at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was also an offensive tackle for the […]
Artashes Aykanian
Inventor of the modern plastic straw flexible tube Surely there is no any person who has never used or seen plastic, bendy, spoon straws or never drank Coke from a coca-cola bottle. Here is the thing, an Armenian Genocide survivor born in America, Ardashes Aykanian stands behind all that inventions. Besides being an outstanding scientist this man […]
Edward Kalajian
Inventor of liquid carton and straw combination Dr. Kalajian has over 40 years of academic experience. He currently serves as the associate dean for the College of Engineering. He teaches a graduate course in geotechnical engineering and an undergraduate courses in soil mechanics and foundations. He is a registered professional engineer (P.E.) in Florida with expertise […]
