1. Education

2. Physics

3. Technology

4. Medicine

5. Pharmacology

6. Astronomy

7. Aircraft

8. Automotive

9. Literature

10. Art

11. See also

12. References

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

Education

• St. Clement of Ohrid - a Bulgarian scholar and writer, the most prominent disciple of Saints Cyril and Methodius and the inventor of the Cyrillic alphabet. This alphabetic writing system is employed across Eastern Europe and North and Central Asia.
• Georgi Lozanov - Suggestopedia

Physics

• Georgi Nadjakov - discovered the photoelectret state essential to modern photocopying.
• Ivan Stranski - Prof. Stranski is considered the father of the kinetic theory of crystal growth research.^[1][2] The Stranski-Krastanov growth and the Kossel-Stranski model have been named after him.
• Dimitar Ivanov Popov - Ivanov reaction

Technology

• Assen Jordanoff, inventor, engineer, and aviator.

Medicine

• Stamen Grigorov - discovered Lactobacillus bulgaricus, patented bacteria used for the production of yogurt in 1905. The bacterium feeds on lactose to produce lactic acid, which is used to preserve milk.
• Ivan Mitev - discovered the sixth heart sound.^[3]
• Samuel Refetoff - discovered the Refetoff syndrome, resistance to thyrotropin (RTSH) and the inherited defect that affects the metabolism of thyroid hormones through mutations in SECISBP2 gene.^[4]

Pharmacology

• Stamen Grigorov - Dr. Grigorov made a major contribution to the creation of an anti-tuberculosis vaccine.
• Dimitar Paskov - created the medicine Nivalin, used for the treatment of mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease and various other memory impairments, in particular those of vascular origin.

Astronomy

• Dimitar Sasselov - in 2002 sighted the farthest planet from the Earth discovered until then - OGLE-TR-56b.

Aircraft

• Assen Jordanoff - Jordaphone - the predecessor of the modern answering machine and tape recorder. Frozen Gasoline System for airplanes. Reverse Thrust device for jet engines.
• 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.

Automotive

• Roumen Antonov - invented a revolutionary continuously variable transmission,^[5][6] which was never produced.^[7]
• Assen Jordanoff - invented the airbag for aircraft pilots that is nowadays used in automobiles.

Literature

• Elias Canetti - Nobel laureate in Literature 1981 "for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power"^[8]

Art

• Early Renaissance - The world famous frescos in the Boyana Church from 1239 AD have been described by Andre Grabar and many scholars, as Early Renaissance or precursors of Renaissance Art well before this period started in Italy. The murals are work of the unknown Boyana Master and his disciples who are believed to have been representatives of the Tarnovo Art School in the Second Bulgarian Empire (1185-1396 AD). The frescos have been compared to the work of Giotto who is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Italian Renaissance. The Boyana Church has been declared by UNESCO a World Heritage site. UNESCOArcheology in Bulgaria
• Boicho Kokinov - DUAL (cognitive architecture)

See also

References

• The Whole Shootin' Match
• The Whole Story and Other Stories
• The Whole Theory
• The Whole Thing's Started
• The Whole Thing Started
• The Whole Thing Started With Rock and Roll & Now It's Out Of
• The Whole Thing Started With Rock & Roll Now It's Out of Control
• The Whole Thing Started with Rock & Roll Now It's Out of Control
• The Whole Towns Talking
• The Whole Truth (1958 film)
• The Whole Truth about the Children of '78
• The Whole Truth (disambiguation)
• The Whole Truth (film)
• The Whole Truth (novel)
• The Whole Truth (TV series)
• The Whole Wide World (album)
• The whole world is watching
• The Whole World Lost Its Head
• The Whole World Reminds Me of You
• The Whole World Reminds Me Of You
• The Whole World's Rotten
• The Who Live at Leeds
• The Who Live at Lyon
• The Wholly Innocent
• The Whoopee Boys