Appendix No 3
For achievements in acquiring computer science named after:
For achievements in acquiring mathematics named after:
For achievements in acquiring physics named after:
For achievements in acquiring chemistry and chemical technologies named after:
For achievements in acquiring medicine and biology named after:
For achievements in acquiring agrarian science including veterinarian and arboricultural studies named after:
For achievements in acquiring engineering science including electronics, automatization and electrotechnics named after:
Acad. Dimitar Mishev
For achievements in acquiring engineering science in the field of machine construction named after:
For achievements in acquiring construction works and architecture named after:
Corr. Member Stancho Belkovski
For achievements in acquiring economics named after:
Brief Resumes of the Nominated Noted Bulgarians
Prof. John Vincent Atanassov (1903-1995)
He was born on 04.10.1903 near Hamilton, New York, USA.
In 1920 he completed his secondary education, and in 1925 majored electric engineering. He became a PhD student in mathematical physics in the State Iowa College in the town of Ames. In his PhD paper he developed an extension to the so-called Railey-Ritz method. In collaboration with Clifford Berry he created the first global electronic calculating machine constructed on the principle of the binary numeric system; the first regenerative memory; the first algorithms. He worked in the field of seismology, military works and calculating equipment studies.
He was a foreign BAS member.
Acad. Nikola Obreshkov (1896-1963)
He was born in Varna. Only at the age of 16 he made his first publication “Expressing half angle functions by full angle functions”.
He graduated majoring in mathematics and physics the Sofia University (1920). He became a professor (1925), a PhD in Math Science (Palermo 1932, the Sorbonne 1933). He became an Academician (1945). He had scientific discoveries and world recognized contributions in higher algebra, numbers theory, cost rows and probability theory. He expanded the classical theories of Decart, and Budane-Fourie about the complex zeroes. In the numbers theory he discovered new exact inequations for the Dioffante approximations of the linear forms and solved the problem for summing arithmetic middle and arbitrary rows from the Fourie order, etc. In the probability theory he established a new algebraic approach for studying the Markov discrete chains and found the distribution of two scholastic magnitudes responding to the Poisson Law for a uniform magnitude.
He was a member and an honorary member of numerous foreign academies and societies.
Acad. Lubomir Nikolov Chakalov (1886-1963)
He was born in Samokov. He graduated from the Sofia University (1908). He became a professor (1925), and PhD in Math Science (Naples 1925), an academician (1930). He was a member of the math societies in France, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Peru, etc.
His main contributions were in the field of functions theory, numeric theory, quadratic equations. He examined integral representation and application of Newton quotients, he discovered and described the main characteristics and recurrent relations of their Peanne nuclei. They became a basis of the formed in the 60s theory of splayed functions which is considered to be one of the notable discoveries of applied analysis in the second half of the twentieth century. Chakalov found the exact range of the semi-interval where the undefined point of the Role theorem lies. The method applied by Chakalov and further developed by Favar is known in literature as the Chakalov – Favar method.
Acad. Lubomir Georgiev Iliev (1912-2000)
He worked on the theory of analytic functions, analytic discontinuity, etc.
He was born in Veliko Turnovo. He graduated from the Sofia University. He became a PhD in Math Science (1938), and in physics (1958). He became a professors (1952) and an academician (1967). He was a foreign member of the SA of the USSR (1976), of the SA of GDR (1977), and of the Hungarian SA (1983). He was an honorary Doctor at the Dresden Polytechnic University (1977).
His scientific contributions were mainly in the field of complex analysis, geometric theory of functions, analytic discontinuity, whole functions zeroes, etc. He developed research in methodological problem of science studies, system modeling and analysis. He was an initiator of developing, establishing and implementing scientific and technical research of calculating equipment and cybernetics in Bulgaria.
Acad. Iliev was a President of the International Union St. Banah Council (Warsaw), a President of the Balkan Math Union, Vice-President of the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP), the first Bulgarian representative to the Board of Directors of the International Institute for Applied System Analysis (IIASA).
Acad. Georgi Stefanov Nadjakov (1896-1981)
He was born in Dupnitza. He graduated from the Sofia University Math and Physics Department. He worked and specialized with Paul Lengevin. Under his supervision he conducted his scientific research related to the photoconductivity phenomenon in hard dialectics and semi-conductors called later the Nadjakov and Andreychin effect. Since 1945 he was an academician. Between 1947 and 1951 he was a President of the Sofia University. He was an initiator of establishing of the Physics Institute of the BAS. Acad. Nadjakov had a decisive impact for the development in Bulgaria of modern and important arrays in science such as the nuclear and atomic physics, solid body physics, electronics, etc. His most important internationally recognized discovery with a priority since 1937 was the photoelectric state of some substances. The latter found a wide application range in many areas of contemporary physics and technical studies – electric photography, vacuum TB broadcasting systems, recording devices for processing optic information and graphics (copy machines). A recognition of the significance of his scientific achievements was his nomination for e foreign member of a number of scientific academies and unions – in Gottinghen, Moscow, the American Association of Science Progress, etc.
Acad. Emil Stefanov Jackov (1908-1978)
He was born in Svishtov. He graduated from the Sofia University. Since 1942 he was a professor and since 1967 – an academician. He was a President of the Electronics Institute to the BAS.
He had significant scientific contributions and innovative developments in the field of physics electronics and radiophysics. He discovered a theory for the relay for time, new integrators of non-linear functions; he found measuring methods for using diodes as sensor elements. He worked on methodology in meteorology.
He was a member and took part in the management of a number of foreign and international scientific societies and institutions.
Acad. Rostislav Atanasov Kaishev (1908-2001)
He was born in St. Petersburg in a family of officers originating from the Rodopi mountain.
He graduated from the Sofia University majoring in chemistry.
He was a foreign member of the GDR AS (1957), the Czechoslovak AS (1966), of the Saxon AS (1968), the German academy for Nature Research Leopoldina (1968).
He worked on the problems of phase formation, crystal structures and electric crystallization. His main achievements were made in the theory of equilibrium forms of crystals, in the molecular-kinetic theory for forming and growth of crystals. He studied experimentally the electrolytic formation of crystal nuclei and the mechanism of electric crystallization. He was one of the founders of the classical theory on crystal forms, nuclei formation of new phases and growth of crystals. In collaboration with Ivan Stranski we discovered the methods of separation works and deduced fundamental relations describing these phenomena. He studies and found the properties of liquid helium.
Prof. Asen Hristov Zlatarov (1885-1936)
He was born in Haskovo. He gained his university diploma in Sofia and in Geneva and had his PhD in the University of Grenoble in France. Since 1924 he was a professor. He was a head of the Organic Chemistry Department to the Sofia University. He was a founder of biochemistry and bromatology (diet science) in Bulgaria. His main scientific contributions were in the fields of enzyme chemistry while studying the physiology of saccharine, of the influence of caffeine in tea and of the tannin in wine over saliva amylase, pepsin, and pancreatic lipase. He synthesized complex substances with practical values, envisioned the discovery of insulin, studies compounds that later proved to be close to the contents of the hormones. His work he dedicated to experiments with zinc therapy of cancer. He was a founder of the specific reaction of nitrate ions, which bears his name.
He was a President of the Union of Chemists in Bulgaria in the period 1924-1936.
Prof. Ivan Todorov Stranski (1897-1979)
He was born in Sofia. He studied chemistry in Sofia and in Vienna. He made his PhD in Berlin. Since 1945 he worked in Germany.
Prof. Ivan Stranski was a founder of the Bulgarian physics chemistry school. He was one of the establisher of the molecular-kinetic theory for formation and growth of crystals. He had a major contribution in studying the electronic emission of metals, heterogeneous equilibrium and turbulence. He found the phenomena of forced condensation. He defined the specific work of a participle in the state of a semi-crystal.
He was a member of the Gottingen Academy of Science (1939), the Bavarian AS (1959), of the Swedish AS, etc. He was a foreign member of BAS (1966). He was an Honorary Senator of the Technological University in Western Berlin (1962). His name was given to two scientific institutes – the Physics and Chemistry Institute to the Technical University in Western Berlin and the Metallurgy Institute in Oberhausen.
Acad. Stefan Georgiev Hristov (1910-2002)
He was born in Sofia. He graduated from the Sofia University (1933). He was a PhD in Chemistry. He was a member of the BAS, an academician (1984), a member of the European Academy of Science, Art and Literature in Paris.
He was a pioneer in the application of quantum mechanics in electric chemistry. He has innovative contributions in the general quantum mechanics theory of potential barriers (tunnel effect theory) with a significance in physics, chemistry, and biology called in world scientific literature specific temperature of Hristov. Also there is internationally recognized a general theory developed by him about the speed of chemical reactions by which elementary processes of photosynthesis and vision, hemoglobin reaction. He created a general theory about electronic emission of metals and semi-conductors.
Acad. Metodi Atanasov Popov (1881-1954)
He was born in Shumen. He graduated from the Sofia University Physics and Math Department. He became a professor in 1916 and an academician in 1947. He made a PhD in the University if Munich. He was a member of the German Academy of Nature Researchers Leopoldina in Hale (1926), of the Czechoslovak Academy of Agriculture in Prague (1926). He a Director of the Institute of Biology to BAS and a President of the Sofia University.
Acad. Popov was the founder of the general cell stimulation and of methods for its application in plant production and medicine. He found the property of vitamins as general cell stimulants and later found the same about the hormones. He studies the stimulation effect during regeneration processes. He was creator of the original theory of respiration of plants. He developed problems of general biology, citophysiology, anthropology, and microbiology.
Acad. Daki Yordanov (Daki Yordanov Vichev) (1893-1978)
He was a Bulgarian botanist; academician (1947).
He was a President of the Sofia University (1956-1962). He was a member of the Presidium of the BAS.
He worked in the field of systematics, plant geography, ecology, geobotanics, and paloebotanics.
Acad. Asen Ivanov Hadjiolov (1903-1994)
He was born in the village of Shirokovo, Ruse region. He graduated from the Medical University to the Sofia University. He studied philosophy and psychology in Lyon with a PhD paper (1929). He specialized in France, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden. He was a professor (1934), and an academician (1952). He was a founder and the first Director (1953-1973) of the Morphology Institute to BAS.
Acad. Hadjiolov was a founder of the Bulgarian scientific school in histology and embryology. He had innovative contributions to the field of histology of fat tissues and of the history and organization of science. He was an author to more than 400 scientific publications on problems of conjunction, blood, nerve and epytel tissue, metabolism of substances, and luminoscopy, on biological, philosophical and humanity issues.
He was a member of the Society of Anatomists in Nancy and Paris and of its management, a member of the Histology Society in Paris, of the International Association of Cell Biology. He was a correspondent member of the International Academy of History and Science in Paris (1963) and a subscription member of the Yugoslav Academy of Science and Art in Zagreb (1961), as well as of other foreign scientific associations.
Acad. Doncho Kostov (Doncho Kostov Stoyanov) (1897-1949)
He was born in the village of Lokor, Sofia Region. He graduated from the Hale University in Agronomy with a PhD. He specialized genetics in the Harvard University in Cambridge, USA. He was a professor and PhD in Biology (1934) and academician (1946). He was a founder of the Institute in Applied Biology and Organism Development to the BAS.
He was a pioneer in the purposive introduction of plants in Bulgaria. He had innovative contributions in the field of abstract hybridization, hetaerosis, experimental immunology and cytogenetics. He was a carrier of the international award for scientific achievements Berbardini (1942). Acad. D. Kostov was the only scientist in the field of natural sciences that published 10 scientific articles in the most renowned magazine in this area “Nature”.
Prof. Ivan Nikolov Popov (1907-2000)
He was born in Veliko Turnovo. He completed higher technical studies in Germany where in 1970 he made a PhD. He was a correspondent member of the BAS (1961), a correspondent member of the Academy of Science and Art in Toulouse, France (1966).
He was a professor in the HTEI – Sofia since 1957.
Prof. Grigor Alexandrov Uzunov (1907-1952)
He was born in Sofia. He graduated from the technical school in Toulouse, France and received the degree Engineer and a scientific degree licancie in physics and mathematics. He worked in the Sate Polytechnic University – Sofia until 1946. He was a founder a head of the first in Bulgaria Department “Low Voltage Currency and Radio Technical Studies”.
His major areas of scientific and lecturing activities were: theory of electromagnetic waves, operational calculation in electric technical studies, high-frequency technical studies, telephone and telegraph equipment, theory of low currency networks and lines, antennas and wave dissemination. He was an author of more than 20 scientific works 4 of which abroad.
Prof. Mincho Petrov Zlatev (1909)
He was born in Sevlievo. He completed electrotechnics studies in Toulouse, France. He made a PhD in 1966. He was a professor in HTEI – Sofia since 1945. He was foreign correspondent member of the Academy of Science in Toulouse. He was a member of the IEEE since 1966 and of the International Association in Computer Science since 1974.
His major areas of scientific and lecturing activities were: theoretic electric and technical studies. He was an author of 153 scientific papers, of which 49 were abroad and of 11 inventions. He was an author of a number of textbooks for the universities in 13 volumes: Theory of Electricity; Measurable Electrotechnics, Foundations of Electrotechnics, and Theoretical Electrotechnics.
Acad. Angel Tonchev Balevski (1910-1997)
He was born in Troyan. He completed machine engineering in Brno, Czechoslovakia. He was professor (1945) and academician (1967).
As a Vice-President of the State Polytechnic University and a President of the TMEI in Sofia he was one of the initiators for forming the system of technical education. He was a President of the BAS (1968-1988) and an Honorary President of BAS (1988). He established the Institute of Metal Studies to BAS.
In collaboration with Prof. Ivan Dimov they created a method for molding with opposite pressure, which is protected by more than 100 certificate of ownership, and patents in all highly developed industrial states. For his contributions to metal studies Acad. Balevski received many respected awards – the golden German medal “Diesel”, the most prestigious European award for prospective scientific and technical contribution “Korber”, a golden medal “Mihail Lomonosov” of the AS of Russia, a golden medal of the French Association of Encouraging Scientific Studies and Inventions.
His international scientific prestige rendered his a member of a number of foreign academies among which is the Russian, the Athic, the Polish, etc.
Asen Hristov Yordanov (1986-1967)
He was born in Sofia. He graduated from the Aviation School of Louis Blerieau in Ethen, France.
He was an aviation construction with a global recognition. He was the constructor of the first Bulgarian motor plane, which after the tests made on 15.08.1915 was recognized as an invention. For the first time he introduced a third wing that stabilized the plane in case of a slope of 45 degrees. After 1921 in the USA he was a member of the construction teams of Lockheed, Douglas, Piper, Boing, and McDonald. As a leading constructor he participated in the development and construction of the flying fortress Boeing 17, Lockheed P38 Lightning, Hawk 81 of Curtis, B24 and B29. His masterpiece was acknowledged to be a plane called Douglas DC 3 (Dakota). Those planes made the first transcontinental flights as well.
By a decision of the Federal government of the USA A. Yordanov organized completely the civil aviation of the USA – land support with radio equipment, aid meteorology, theoretic and flight preparation of the pilots for diurnal and nocturnal piloting. He worked as an instructor and lecturer while preparing astronauts.
A. Yordanov worked also on the safety of automobiles and discovered a device known as the air cushion. He also discovered the snow removers, as well as the Jodaphone telephones – wireless, with an answering function, with an amplifier and intercom functions.
Nikolay Stefanov Toshkovich (?-1893)
He was a Bulgarian scientist and inventor; the first Bulgarian receiving a patent for a technical discovery.
In 1857 he patented in France a push for a heat machine with push rings with internal springs, and in 1858 – a pulling screw with a double function. His major work was called “Practical Notes on Steamers”.
Nikola Ivanov Fichev (Usta Kolio Ficheto) (1800-1881)
He was born in Dryanovo. He was the most marked Bulgarian master – constructor, a self-made architect and innovator from the Bulgarian Renaissance period, one of the originators of the New Bulgarian Church and Civil architecture. In church construction he enriched the tradition of the three-ship basilica. He created and successfully introduced many new ideas and techniques in construction engineering and architecture – solid arcing of ships instead of wooded ceilings; new labels of the bell compartments, pointed front cornice. His made the churches “St. Bogoroditza”, “St. Ciril and Methodeus”, “St. Spas”, “St. Kontstantin and Elena” in Turnovo, “St. Nikola” in Dryanovo, “St. Troitza” in Svishtov, in the Kilipharevo, and Plachokovo monasteries, the Lovech covered Bridge, the Belene Bridge, the Hadji Nikolay Inn, the Police Office in Turnovo, etc., where in many of them he reached a sort of a synthesis of engineering solution, architecture, and sculpture. His construction works were exceptional for his time in its quality and economic efficiency.
Prof. Arch. Ivan Petrov Danchov (1893--1972)
He designed public buildings – reception sites to train stations, the complexes Bulgaria (a hotel with a concert hall), Balkan (hotel and cinema) – in Sofia, and in collaboration with arch. Belkovski – the Students Town in Sofia.
Corr. Member, Arch. Stancho Belkovski (1891-1962)
He was born in Sofia. He graduated from the Berlin Higher Technical School majoring in architecture. Since 1943 he was a professor and a department chair of “Design and Sites Science” to the Construction Department of the Higher Technical School in Sofia, and later to the Public Sites Department. He was a President of the Polytechnic University (1944-1945). He was a Director of the Institute of Urban Works and Architecture to the BAS (1961-1962). He was correspondent member of the BAS (1961).
He designed a number of public sites, such as the Alliance Francaise building on the Slaveikov square in Sofia, the Popular Bank and hotel in Kazanluk, the German School (now Musical academy) in Sofia, the concert hall and hotel Bulgaria, cinema and hotel Balkan (former Youth Theater) in Sofia, the Telephone Palace in Sofia, the Agricultural Institute in Plovdiv, the Sports Hall in Ruse, etc.
As a scientist he worked over the style, relationship of modern to traditional and folklore, relationship of architecture-construction, cooperation between architects and constructor, typization and industrialization of construction works, etc.
Acad. Evgeni Ganchev Kamenov (1908-1985)
He was a Bulgarian economist, jurist and sociologist. He was an academician (1961).
He worked in the field of international economic relations, scientific and technical revolution, interaction between natural and public processes. He researched on the economic problems of developing states and EU countries.
Acad. Jack Natan Primo (1902-1974)
He was a Bulgarian economist, economic historian.
He was an academician (1961). He was a Director of the Economic Institute to the BAS (1949-1951), a President of the HEI “Karl Marx” (1958-1962).
He worked in the field of political economy and economic history of Bulgaria.
Acad. Evgeni Georgiev Mateev (1920-1997)
He was a Bulgarian economist and a state public figure.
He was an academician (1967), a member of the Russian AS. He was a Deputy-Chairman and a Chairman of the ECOSOC to the UN for Europe (1968-1971). He worked in the field of planning, public economy management and economic cybernetics.
Acad. Ivan Stefanov Mateev (1899-1980)
He was a Bulgarian economist and statistician. He was a professor and academician (1948). He was a member of the international statistics institute. He founded the first department in statistics and insurance in the Higher Commercial School in Svishtov (1941). He established and became the first Director of the Economic Institute to the BAS (1949).
He worked in the field of statistics, demography, application of mathematics in economic calculations, etc. He had more than 190 scientific publications. He was BNB Head and Minister of the Finance (1946-1949).