List of Armenian scientists

This is a list of Armenian scientists.

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  • Levon Chailakhyan (1928–2009)  – physiologist and cloning pioneer; produced world's first successfully cloned mammal, mouse "Masha", 10 years before the famous "Dolly"
  • Mikhail Chailakhyan (1902–1991)  – founder of hormonal theory of plant development
  • Karapet Chobanyan (1927–1978)  – mechanical engineer, discovered the phenomenon of Low-Stress in mechanics. Made the first discovery in Armenia and Transcaucasus which was registered in the Soviet Union's discovery registry under the number 102
  • Giacomo Luigi Ciamician (1857–1922) – photochemist, "father of photochemistry and solar energy"

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  • Harry Daghlian (1921–1945)  – physicist who worked and died at the Manhattan Project Los Alamos laboratory
  • Raymond Damadian (born 1936)  – physician, inventor of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); produced the first MRI scan of the human body
  • Mkhitar Djrbashian (1918–1994)  – mathematician, author of significant contributions to analysis
  • Richard Donchian (1905–1993)  – known as the father of trend following; a pioneer in the field of managed futures; considered to be the creator of the managed futures industry and is credited with developing a systematic approach to futures money management; developed the trend timing method of futures investing and introduced the mutual fund concept to the field of money management

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  • Nikolay Enikolopov (1924–1993) – chemist, one of the founders of Russian polymer science

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  • Gregory M. Garibian (1924–1991)  – physicist, known for developing the Theory of Transition Radiation and showing the feasibility of functional transition radiation detectors (TRDs)
  • Grigor Gurzadyan (1922–2014)  – outstanding astronomer; pioneer of space astronomy; pioneered the construction and use of small space telescopes, 20 years before the Hubble telescope

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  • Spiru Haret (1851–1912)  – astronomer, mathematician and politician
  • Mkhitar Heratsi (12th century) – medieval priest and physician; wrote an encyclopedia on medicine; theorized that fever results from internal changes in the body, a revolutionary idea for medieval medicine; his work included psychotherapy, surgery, diet and herbs to cure diseases
  • Paris Herouni (1933–2008) – radio physicist, astronomer; built world's most sophisticated radio telescope; has published over 340 scientific works

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  • Bagrat Ioannisiani (1911–1985)  – engineer, designer of the BTA-6, one of the largest telescopes in the world
  • Andronik Iosifyan (1905–1993)  – aerospace engineer, chief electrician of Soviet missiles and spacecraft, including the R-7 Semyorka and the Soyuz spacecraft
  • Garik Israelian (born 1963)  – astrophysicist; in 1999 provided the first evidence that stellar mass black holes are produced from supernova explosions; founder of Starmus Festivals; awarded gold medal by the Government of Canary Islands

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  • Caro Lucas (1949–2010)  – computer engineer, leader in computer science in Iran
  • Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822–1882)  – pharmacist, one of the world's pioneers of the oil industry, built the world's first modern oil refinery

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  • John Najarian (1927–2020)  – surgeon, pioneer in organ transplantation
  • Aram Nalbandyan (1908–1987)  – physicist, prominent in the field of physical chemistry, founder of the Institute of Chemical Physics in Yerevan, Armenia
  • Robert Nalbandyan (1937–2002)  – chemist; co-discoverer of photosynthetic protein plantacyanin; pioneer in the field of free radicals; leader in sickle cell research and testing methods

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References
  1. Science, 1973
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