The following list contains notable inventions and discoveries made by ethnic Armenians, including those not born or living in modern-day Armenia and those of partial Armenian ancestry.
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width=22% | Name | width=20% | Country/citizenship | width=15% | Field | width=50% | Invention/discovery (date) |
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data-sort-value="Mashtots" | Mesrop Mashtots | Kingdom of Armenia | Linguistics | Armenian alphabet (c. 405)[1] [2] Georgian alphabet (c. 408; disputed) Caucasian Albanian alphabet[3] [4] [5] (c. 422)[6] | |||
data-sort-value="Łukasiewicz" | Ignacy Łukasiewicz[7] [8] | Austrian Poland | Engineering, chemical | First kerosene lamp (1853)[9] First oil refinery (1856)[10] | |||
data-sort-value="Kazanjian" | Gabriel Kazanjian[11] | United States | Engineering, electrical | Hand-held hair dryer (1911)[12] [13] [14] | |||
data-sort-value="Stepanian" | Stephen Stepanian | United States | Engineering, industrial | Concrete mixer truck (1916)[15] [16] | |||
data-sort-value="Artin" | Emil Artin[17] [18] | Austria, United States | Mathematics | Artin L-function (1923)[19] | |||
data-sort-value="Vaganova" | Agrippina Vaganova[20] | Russian Empire, Soviet Union | Arts | Vaganova method (1930s)[21] | |||
data-sort-value="Kirlian" | Semyon Kirlian[22] | Soviet Union | Photography | Kirlian photography (1939)[23] | |||
data-sort-value="Mikoyan" | Artem Mikoyan | Soviet Union | Engineering, aerospace | Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-9, the first Soviet turbo jet fighter (1946)[24] | |||
data-sort-value="Alchian" | Armen Alchian[25] | United States | Economics | New institutional economics (with Ronald Coase and Harold Demsetz) (1946–84) | |||
data-sort-value="Ambartsumian" | Victor Ambartsumian | Soviet Union, Armenia | Astronomy | Stellar association (1947)[26] [27] | |||
Cyrus Melikian[28] | United States | Engineering, electrical | Coffee vending machine (1947; with Lloyd Rudd)[29] [30] [31] | ||||
data-sort-value="Takhtajan" | Armen Takhtajan[32] | Soviet Union, Russia, Armenia | Botany | Takhtajan system (1950)[33] | |||
data-sort-value="Mergelyan" | Sergey Mergelyan[34] | Soviet Union | Mathematics | Mergelyan's theorem (1951)[35] | |||
data-sort-value="Keonjian" | Edward Keonjian[36] | United States | Engineering, electrical | First solar-powered, pocket-sized radio transmitter (1954)[37] | |||
data-sort-value="Acopian" | Sarkis Acopian | United States | Engineering, electrical | Solar-powered radio (1957)[38] [39] [40] | |||
data-sort-value="Simjian" | Luther Simjian[41] | United States | Engineering, electrical | Prototype of automated teller machine (ATM) (1960)[42] [43] | |||
data-sort-value="Markarian" | Benjamin Markarian | Soviet Union | Astronomy | Markarian's Chain (1961)[44] Markarian galaxies (1965–80)[45] | |||
data-sort-value="Askaryan" | Gurgen Askaryan[46] | Soviet Union | Askaryan effect (1962)[47] | ||||
data-sort-value="Artin" | Michael Artin[48] | United States | Mathematics | Artin approximation theorem (1969) | |||
data-sort-value="Kemurdzhian" | Alexander Kemurdzhian[49] | Soviet Union | Engineering, aerospace | First planetary rover, Lunokhod 1 (1970)[50] [51] | |||
data-sort-value="Ter-Pogossian" | Michel Ter-Pogossian[52] [53] | United States | Medicine | Positron emission tomography (PET) (1974)[54] | |||
data-sort-value="Arakelov" | Suren Arakelov[55] | Soviet Union | Mathematics | Arakelov theory (1974) | |||
data-sort-value="Damadian" | Raymond Damadian[56] | United States | Medicine | Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) (1977)[57] [58] [59] (disputed with Paul Lauterbur)[60] [61] | |||
data-sort-value="Khachiyan" | Leonid Khachiyan[62] [63] | Soviet Union, United States | Mathematics | Ellipsoid method (1979)[64] [65] | |||
data-sort-value="Donabedian" | Avedis Donabedian | United States | Healthcare | Donabedian model (1980–88)[66] | |||
data-sort-value="Adomian" | George Adomian | United States | Mathematics | Adomian decomposition method (1980s)[67] | |||
data-sort-value="Kapikian" | Albert Kapikian[68] [69] | United States | Medicine | Rotavirus vaccine (1997)[70] | |||
data-sort-value="Oganessian" | Yuri Oganessian[71] | Soviet Union, Russia | Physics, nuclear | Discovery of superheavy elements:[72] Flerovium (1999),[73] Livermorium (2000),[74] Oganesson (2002),[75] Moscovium (2003),[76] Nihonium (2004),[77] Tennessine (2009)[78] | |||
Cyrill Demian | Austria-Hungary | Engineering,Music | Accordion (1829)[79] | ||||
Hovannes Adamian | Russian Empire | Engineering | Color Television (1908)[80] | ||||
Alex Manoogian | United States | Plumbing | Delta Faucet (1952)[81] | ||||