Armenian contribution to the world: inventions and discoveries

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1.Stephan Stepanian -Truck Mounted Revolving Concrete Drum Mixer, revolutionized the concrete industry.

2. Gabriel Kazanjian officially registered invention of blow-dryer or hair dryer in 1911.

3. Kristafor Ter-Serobyan - invented the green color of US $ (which can't be faked).
For this, he received U.S. $ 6,000.

4. Luther George Simidzhyan - invented the ATM, owns more than 200 patents of various inventions, including in the field of photography (for example self-posing portrait camera).

5. Michel M. Ter-Pogossian (1925 – June 19, 1996) was an Armenian-American physicist who is one of the fathers of positron emission tomography (PET), the first functional brain imaging technology.

6. Raymond Vahan Damadyan (born March 16, 1936, NY USA) is an Armenian-American medical practitioner and inventor of the first MR (Magnetic Resonance) Scanning Machine.

7. Dr. Albert Kapikyan is an Armenian-American virologist who developed the first licensed vaccine against rotavirus (which is the most common cause of severe diarrhea in infants). He received Sabin Gold Medal for his pioneering work on the vaccine.

8. Varazdat Kazanjyan is the father and pioneer of plastic surgery. During the First World War Dr. he used his skills as a prosthetic dentist to reconstruct the faces of thousands of soldiers disfigured during the war.

9. Alexander "Alex" Manoogyan is the inventor of ice cream waffle cons (that probably each of us loves a lot).

10.Rupen Eksergian - US anti-aircraft gun mount and recoil, WWII.

11. Artem Ivanovich Mikoyan (1905 — 1970) was a Soviet aircraft designer of Armenian descent. Mikoyan invented "MIG" Military aircraft.

12. Arthur Bulbulian invented A-14 oxygen mask used in WWII by US Army and air force.

13. Hovhannes Adamyan - founder of the principles of black-and-white and color television, the first VCR.

14. Alex Manoogyan - Single Handle Faucet Design.

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Jirayr Tezel invented hair follicle plug transplanting device.

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Element Named After Armenian Scientist Yuri Oganessian

Yuri Oganessian and his team discovered the heaviest elements in the periodic table.

In line with the tradition of honoring a scientist, the name oganesson and symbol Og for element 118 was proposed by the collaborating teams of discoverers at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna (Russia) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (USA).

In the whole history of science, only 12 persons have received that kind of honor, and only one person was likewise named while he was alive.

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Ignacy Lukasiewicz, an engineer, businessman and inventor of Armenian origin, one of the most prominent philanthropists in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, crown land of Austria-Hungary.

Ignacy Lukasiewicz was a pioneer who built the world's first modern oil refinery. His achievements included the discovery of how to distill kerosene from seep oil, the invention of the modern kerosene lamp, the introduction of the first modern street lamp in Europe, and the construction of the world's first modern oil well.

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11. Artem Ivanovich Mikoyan (1905 — 1970) was a Soviet aircraft designer of Armenian descent. Mikoyan invented "MIG" Military aircraft.

Recently another aircraft designer of Armenian descent, the chief designer of Su-34 combat aircraft, Rolland Martirosov (Martirosyan) passed away at the age of 84.

Seven world records were set by Su-34 aircraft and these records have not been beaten so far.

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Boris Babayan, a supercomputer architect, notable as the pioneering creator of supercomputers in the Soviet Union

A team headed by Babayan designed Elbrus-3 computer using an architecture named Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC).

Since August 2004, Babayan is the Director of Architecture for the Software and Solutions Group in Intel Corporation.

In the history of Intel, Babayan became the second European (and the first outside of Western Europe) to receive the Intel Fellow honorary title from the corporation, which is awarded to the employees who made the greatest contribution to the company's prosperity for special merits in the development of technology.

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Elizabeth Shakhatuni: the first female aircraft designer of the Soviet Union

Elizabeth (Elizaveta Avetovna) Shakhatuni - spouse and ally of the famous aircraft designer and creator of the "AN" aircraft, Oleg Antonov.

For many years she headed the direction of strength and safety of aircraft in Antonov Design Bureau. Elizabeth Shahatuni was born in 1911 in Yerevan in an Armenian family. On the eve of World War II, Elizaveta Shakhatuni and Oleg Antonov get married and have since been working together to create aircraft.

AN-2, popularly known as "Annushka" and "Кукурузник", has become a legend and has been produced until now for more than 70 years.

Then there was work on the AN-8, AN-10 aircraft, the world's largest AN-22 Antey turboprop aircraft, the world's second-largest AN-124 Ruslan aircraft and other AN-brand aircraft. Elizaveta Shakhatuni lived a eventful and long life, not having lived only 16 days up to the age of 100.



In this photo, she and her husband - the future famous aircraft designer Oleg Antonov



In this photo, the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is left to her and Oleg Antonov is right to her

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Giacomo Luigi Ciamician - founder of photochemistry and solar energy

Giacomo Luigi Ciamician - Italian chemist of Armenian descent, founder of photochemistry and solar energy, professor of the University of Bologna.

In 1910 he became the first man born in Trieste to be nominated Senator of the Kingdom of Italy.

He actively defended and promoted the idea of using solar energy, predicting its wide distribution in the future. He entered into the history of photochemistry as the creator of the first prototypes of solar panels.

Ciamician was the Chairman of the Chemical Society of Italy, member of the National Academy of Italy, Royal Academy of Genoa, Royal Academy of Padua, National Academy dei Linchei, Paris Academy and corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.

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Sergey Mergelyan - major contributor to the Approximation Theory

Sergey Mergelyan, an Armenian mathematician, who made major contributions to the Approximation Theory. The modern Complex Approximation Theory is based on Mergelyan's classical work.

When Mergelyan was just 20, he was awarded the USSR Doctor of Science degree in mathematics. Up today this is an absolute record of getting the highest scientific degree (Doctor of Science) at such young age in former USSR and present Russia. When he was just 24 he became corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (now Russian Academy of Sciences), which, from the point of view of young age, is yet another absolute record among USSR scientists.

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Oscar Banker - prolific American inventor of Armenian descent

Oscar Banker (born Asatour Sarafian), a prolific American inventor of Armenian origin who patented a number of works, used everywhere in the modern world.

In particular among his works an automatic transmission for automobiles, the needleless inoculation gun, the primary controls of the first Sikorsky helicopter, and power steering. He is accredited as the inventor of the first practical automatic transmission and considered by some as the "father of automatic transmission".