Science

Alexander Abian – mathematician

Aleksei Sisakian – prominent ultimate particle and mathematical physics specialist; director of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubnay United Nuclear Research Inst.); his father, Norayr Sisakian, established Cosmic Biology

Artem Mikoyan – designer of MiG aircraft

Boris Babaian – father of Soviet supercomputer

Giacomo Luigi Ciamician; father of Photochemistry and Solar Energy

Edgar Danielyan – computer security expert and author

George Adomian – mathematician, engineer

Gurgen Askaryan – physicist, inventor of light self focusing

Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. – physicist who worked and perished at the Manhattan Project Los Alamos laboratory.

Hovhannes Abgari Adamian – engineer, inventor of the ink to color BW TV

Hrayr Shahinian – Director of the Skull Base Institute.

Ivan Knunyants – chemist

James P. Bagian – NASA astronaut

Karapet Chobanyan – mechanical engineer, made first discovery in Armenia.

Leonid Khachiyan – mathematician

Luther George Simjian – inventor of autofocus camera, ATMs, flight simulator, postage meter.

Charlie Papazian – nuclear engineer

Michel (Michael) Ter-Pogossian–father of positron emission tomography (pet Scans) which has revolutionized the understanding of how the brain functions

Mikhail Piotrovsky – (born 1944) Orientalist, Director of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg

Mikhail Pogosyan – Director General, Sukhoi Aircraft Corporation

Mekhitar Heratsi – (1100s) He was a priest who wrote an encyclopedia on medicine. He 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 – (born 1933) radio physicist and professor

Robert Nalbandyan – chemist

Semyon Kirlian – pioneer of photography

Serge Mikoyan –nephew of Artem Mikoyan, and head design engineer at Mikoyan Design Burreau, developed MiG-29 and MiG-31

Sergey Mergelyan – mathematician

Soukias Manasserian Engineer and Inventor

Spiru Haret – (1851-1912) Romanian astronomer, mathematician and politician

Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian – (1908-1996) astronomer, physicist; various spellings of names. His textbook, Theoretical Astrophysics (1958) went through many editions and translations. His presentations drew large audiences at international symposia.

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