Science & enterprise · Azerbaijan

Science & enterprise of Azerbaijan

Scientists and scholars, and the industrialists and philanthropists who built Azerbaijan's institutions.

Science & scholarship

1921–2017

Azerbaijani-American mathematician and computer scientist, born in Baku, who created fuzzy logic.

1908–1968

Nobel Prize–winning physicist born in Baku, one of the most important theoretical physicists of the 20th century.

1905–1961

Chemist and major scientific organiser who served as president of the Academy of Sciences.

1917–2003

Leading engineer born in Baku and one of the key figures in the Soviet space programme.

19th–20th c.

Physician, political leader, and one of the founders of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.

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