List of Bulgarian inventors and discoverers

This is a List of Bulgarian inventors and discoverers, working locally or overseas, and also a list of Bulgarian inventions and creations. The list comprises people from Bulgaria and also people of predominantly Bulgarian heritage.

Bulgaria – Coat of Arms "Unity Makes Strength"

Art and architecture

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Medicine and pharmacology

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Literature and education

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The Cyrillic Alphabet created in the Pliska-Preslav Literary School, used by most Slavic people (right). Its predecessor – the Glagolitic alphabet by Sts. Cyril and Methodius (left).
 
One of the 366 miniatures of the Tetraevangelia of Ivan Alexander (1355–1356) – one of the most famous works of the Tarnovo Literary School
 
Elias Canetti, Nobel laureate in Literature (1981)

Technology and aviation

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Assen Jordanoff, inventor, engineer, and aviator-pioneer
  • The first technologically processed gold and oldest gold treasure and gold jewelry in the world, dating from 4,600 BC to 4,200 BC, was discovered at Varna Necropolis.[7]
  • The first Ferris wheels, the "Pleasure wheels" from Plovdiv, whose passengers rode in chairs suspended from large wooden rings turned by strong men, may have originated in 17th-century Bulgaria.[8][9]
  • Simeon Petrov – Captain Simeon Petrov, Bulgarian Air Force, invented the world's first purpose-built air-to-surface bomb in 1912. The innovations included aerodynamically stabilized x-tail and an impact detonator. The majority of aircraft bombs to date follow Petrov's design. The Bulgarian Air Force deployed the original prototype, thus becoming the first military force in the world to conduct tactical airplane bombing in a full-scale war in 1912.
  • Assen Jordanoff (September 2, 1896 – October 19, 1967) was a Bulgarian American inventor, engineer, and aviator. Jordanoff is considered to be the founder of aeronautical engineering in Bulgaria, as well as a contributor to the development of aviation in the United States. Inventor of:
  • John Vincent Atanasoff (October 4, 1903 – June 15, 1995) was an American physicist and inventor of Bulgarian origin, best known for being credited with inventing the first electronic digital computer.[10]
  • Peter Petroff (21 October 1919 – 27 February 2003[11]) was a Bulgarian American inventor, engineer, NASA scientist, and adventurer. He was involved in the NASA space program. Among his many accomplishments, Petroff assisted in development of one of the earliest computerized pollution monitoring system and telemetry devices for early weather and communications satellites. Petroff helped develop components of one of the world's first digital watches[11] and an early wireless heart monitor, and many other important devices and methods.
  • Ivan (John) Notchev – Bulgarian American aviation engineer and invertor of the jet engines of the Eagle lunar module. They provide the smooth landing of the module with the cosmonauts, and then their successful return and docking with the spacecraft waiting for them in orbit.
  • Angel Balevski (4 March 1910 – 15 September 1997) – famous Bulgarian inventor and engineer who developed, together with Ivan Dimov, a counter-pressure casting method which was a novelty in world foundry technology and was protected by over 100 patent documents in Bulgaria and abroad.
  • Roumen Antonov – invented a revolutionary continuously variable transmission,[12][13] which was never produced.[14]

Science

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Prof. Georgi Nadjakov discovered the photoelectrets.
 
Prof. Ivan Stranski, the father of the kinetic theory of crystal growth (1940)

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Centre, UNESCO World Heritage. "Boyana Church". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 2023-02-02.
  2. ^ Archeology in Bulgaria
  3. ^ SAMUEL REFETOFF, MD, Interview conducted by Michael Chappelle, June 4, 2011
  4. ^ Mitev, I (1977). "[The 6th heart sound]". Arch Mal Coeur Vaiss. 70 (3): 265–72. PMID 404983.
  5. ^ unesdoc.unesco.org https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000030087?posInSet=1&queryId=97c00842-1872-42c6-be70-3f81470da00a. Retrieved 2020-12-20. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ^ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1981". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
  7. ^ Grande, Lance; Augustyn, Allison (2009-11-15). Gems and Gemstones: Timeless Natural Beauty of the Mineral World. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-30511-0.
  8. ^ "Still turning – Jacksonville built the world's first portable Ferris Wheel". Archived from the original on March 11, 2012.
  9. ^ "BBC News | UK | Eyes in the sky". news.bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on June 25, 2006.
  10. ^ "ATANASOFF, JOHN VINCENT". Who's Who in America 1995. Vol. 1 (A-K) (49th ed.). New Providence, NJ: Marquis Who's Who. 1994. p. 129. ISBN 0837901596. Retrieved January 22, 2020 – via Internet Archive.
  11. ^ a b Saxon, Wolfgang (2003-03-09). "Peter D. Petroff Dies at 83; Devised a Digital Wristwatch". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-02-02.
  12. ^ Linde, Arvid, 2011, Preston Tucker & Others: Tales of Brilliant Automotive Innovations, Veloce Publishing PLC, ISBN 978-1-84584-017-4
  13. ^ "Antonov's multi-speed transmission for electric cars won an award in the U.K. | MotorNature: cars for green drivers". Retrieved 2023-02-02.
  14. ^ Mysterie achter Antonov zal nog blijven voortleven. Financieel Dagblad, May 6th, 2013
  15. ^ Sretenova, Nikolina. "Ivan N. Stranski: An Exciting Journey to the Academic Top". Union of Scientists in Bulgaria. Retrieved 2009-08-06.
  16. ^ "Iwan Nikolà STRANSKI (1897 – Sofia – 1979)" (in German). History and Foundations of Quantum Physics. Retrieved 2009-08-06.