# List of Armenian inventors and discoverers

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.

## List

Default sorted chronologically
| Name | Country/citizenship | Field | Invention/discovery (date) |
| Mesrop Mashtots | Kingdom of Armenia | Linguistics | Armenian alphabet (c. 405) Georgian alphabet (c. 408; disputed) Caucasian Albanian alphabet (c. 422) |
| Cyrill Demian | Austrian Empire | Music | Accordion (1829) |
| Ignacy Łukasiewicz | Austrian Poland | Engineering, chemical | the first kerosene lamp (1853) the first oil refinery (1856) |
| Hovannes Adamian | Russian Empire, Soviet Union | Engineering | a pioneer of color television, patenting and demonstrating early electromechanical color TV systems (1907—1925) |
| Gabriel Kazanjian | United States | Engineering, electrical | Hand-held hair dryer (1911) |
| Stephen Stepanian | United States | Engineering, industrial | Concrete mixer truck (1916) |
| Emil Artin | Austria-Hungary, Austria, Germany, United States | Mathematics | Artin L-function (1923) |
| Semyon Kirlian | Soviet Union | Photography | Kirlian photography (1939) |
| Artem Mikoyan | Soviet Union | Engineering, aerospace | Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-9, the first Soviet turbo jet fighter (1946) |
| Victor Ambartsumian | Soviet Union, Armenia | Astronomy | Stellar association (1947) |
| Cyrus Melikian | United States | Engineering, electrical | Coffee vending machine (1947; with Lloyd Rudd) |
| Sergey Mergelyan | Soviet Union | Mathematics | Mergelyan's theorem (1951) |
| Alex Manoogian | United States | Plumbing | the first successful single-handle ball valve faucet—Delta faucet (1952) |
| Edward Keonjian | United States | Engineering, electrical | First solar-powered, pocket-sized radio transmitter (1954) |
| Sarkis Acopian | United States | Engineering, electrical | Solar-powered radio (1957) |
| Luther Simjian | United States | Engineering, electrical | Prototype of automated teller machine (ATM) (1960) |
| Benjamin Markarian | Soviet Union | Astronomy | Markarian's Chain (1961) Markarian galaxies (1965–80) |
| Gurgen Askaryan | Soviet Union | Physics, particle | Askaryan effect (1962) |
| Michael Artin | United States | Mathematics | Artin approximation theorem (1969) |
| Alexander Kemurdzhian | Soviet Union | Engineering, aerospace | First planetary rover, Lunokhod 1 (1970) |
| Michel Ter-Pogossian | United States | Medicine | Positron emission tomography (PET) (1974) |
| Suren Arakelov | Soviet Union | Mathematics | Arakelov theory (1974) |
| Raymond Damadian | United States | Medicine | Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) (1977) (disputed with Paul Lauterbur) |
| Leonid Khachiyan | Soviet Union, United States | Mathematics | Ellipsoid method (1979) |
| George Adomian | United States | Mathematics | Adomian decomposition method (1980s) |
| Levon Chailakhyan | Soviet Union | Biophysics | the first cloned mammal from an early embryonic cell (1987) |
| Albert Kapikian | United States | Medicine | Rotavirus vaccine (1997) |
| Yuri Oganessian | Soviet Union, Russia | Physics, nuclear | Discovery of superheavy elements: Flerovium (1999), Livermorium (2000), Oganesson (2002), Moscovium (2003), Nihonium (2004), Tennessine (2009) |