page_title: List of Azerbaijanis
section_title: Scientists
hierarchical_section_title: List of Azerbaijanis / Azerbaijan / Scientists
caption_attribution_description: English: A portrait of Yusif Mammadaliyev is pictured on the stamp. 1905-1995. Русский: Марка посвящённая 90 летию со дня рождения Мамедалиева, Юсифа Гейдар оглы
context_page_description: Azerbaijanis or Azeris are a Turkic people. Azerbaijanis are predominantly Shia Muslims living throughout Caucasus, northern Iran and eastern Turkey. Traditionally, Azerbaijanis live in Azerbaijan, Iran, Russia, Turkey and Georgia.
  Regardless of ethnicity or emigration, this list also includes famous natives of Azerbaijan, as well as people who were born elsewhere but spent most of their active life in Azerbaijan. Some Azerbaijanis were born in one country, but gained fame in another. Here, they are indicated only by place of birth. This list also includes people who have at least one parent of Azerbaijani origin.
context_section_description: Hasan Abdullayev (1918–1993), physicist, scientist and public official, President of the National Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR.
  Rasim Alguliyev (born 1958), doctor of technical sciences, active member of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  Aminaga Sadigov (born 1962), doctor of technical sciences, professor, the head of the Office of Science and Education of the Presidium of ANAS
  Rafig Aliyev (born 1942), scientist, president of "Zadeh’s heritage and artificial intelligence" association
  Ahliman Amiraslanov (born 1947), oncologist, a professor and Rector of Azerbaijan Medical University
  Hamid Arasly (1902–1983), literary critic
  Firuddin Babayev (1929–1987), pathologist
  Anvar Chingizoglu (born 1962), historian, ethnologist and genealogist
  Jeyhun Hajibeyli (1891–1962), ethnographer
  Ashraf Huseynov (1907–1981), mathematician, member of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  Mammadali Huseynov (1922–1994), archeologist
  Nadir Ibrahimov (1932–1977), astronomer
  Hamlet Isakhanli (born 1948), mathematician and poet, founder and president of Khazar University
  Dashgin Iskandarov (born 1965), oil scientist, businessman
  Ishag Jafarzadeh (1895–1982),  one of the pioneers of Azerbaijan archaeology and ethnography
  Kerim Kerimov (1917–2003), rocket scientist, one of the founders of the Soviet space industry, and for many years a central figure in the Soviet space program
  Yusif Kerimov (1926–1997), electrical engineer, inventor and former head of the Azerenergy
  Boris Khatagurov (born 1940), surgeon and physician
  Firudin bey Kocharli (born 1863–1920), philologist, writer and literary critic
  Yusif Mammadaliyev (1905–1961), chemist, was the president of the National Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR
  Leyla Mammadbeyova (1922–2006), the first female Azerbaijani pathologist and the first female forensic medical expert
  Zaid Orudzhev (born 1932), philosopher
  Mirali Qashqai (1907–1977), geologist
  Arif Salimov (born 1956), mathematician
  Farman Salmanov (1931–2007), geologist
  Zeynalabdin Shirvani (1780–1838), geographer
  Agabey Sultanov (1938–2007), psychiatrist, scholar and public activist
  Hajibey Sultanov (1921–2008), astronomer and former head of the Shamakhi Astrophysical Observatory
  Lotfi A. Zadeh (born 1921), mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, founder of the theory of fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic
caption: Stamp dedicated to the 90th anniversary of chemist Yusif Mammadaliyev
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