List of Azerbaijani scientists and philosophers

This is a comprehensive list of notable Azerbaijani scientists and philosophers, which is arranged alphabetically.

Scientists and philosophers

• Ali Abbasov — physicist, who specialized in the field of microelectronics.
• Tofig Abbasguliyev — linguist, who specializes in the fields of grammar, terminology, translation, phraseology and lexicology.
• Hasan Abdullayev — Lenin-prize winning physicist, who specialized in the field of semiconductors research, President of the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences in 1970-1983.
• Abbasgulu Bakikhanov — philosopher, historian and writer, founder of Azerbaijani scientific historiography.
• Zarifa Aliyeva — ophthalmologist, who devised and introduced new methods for treatment of ocular diseases.
• Ahliman Amiraslanov — oncologist, professor and rector of Azerbaijan Medical University.
• Hamid Arasly — philologist, who specialized in Azerbaijani literary studies, history and linguistics.
• Seyid Yahya Bakuvi — scientist and philosopher of the late medieval era in the fields of mathematics and astronomy.
• Vagif Guliyev — mathematician, who specializes in the fields lie groups and homogeneous spaces.
• Zumrud Gulu-zade — philosopher, professor of philosophy at the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.^[1]
• Elshan Hajizadeh — economic scientist, who specialized in the problems of economy and management of fuel and energy complex.
• Ashraf Huseynov — mathematician, who was the first to study the nonlinear Hilbert problem as applied to analytic functions,^[2] and also created the H_{α, β, γ} function space and proved some theorems for nonlinear singular integral equations with Cauchy kernel within that space.^[2]
• Heydar Huseynov — philosopher, who specialized in dialectical materialism.
• Nadir Ibrahimov — astrophysicist, who was an astronomer of the Shamakhy Astrophysical Observatory of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, and Ibragimov crater on Mars is named in his honor.
• Hamlet Isakhanli — mathematician, and science writer, founder of Khazar University.
• Ishag Jafarzadeh — archeologist, who was one of the pioneers of archaeology and ethnography in Azerbaijan.
• Alexander Kazembek^[3][4][5][6] — famous philologist, and organizer of the Russian Oriental Studies.
• George Kechaari — philologist, who specialized in the Udi language.
• Dzhangir Kerimov — philosopher, who specializes in philosophical problems of legal science, social planning and administration, theory of state and law.
• Kerim Kerimov^[7] — rocket scientist, one of the founders of the Soviet space industry, and for many years a central figure in the Soviet space program, Hero of Socialist Labor.
• Yusif Kerimov — electrical engineer and inventor.
• Elchin Khalilov — geophysicist, professor, doctor of geological and mineralogical sciences.
• Salahaddin Khalilov — philosopher, who specializes in philosophy of science, science about science, philosophical comparativism, phenomenology, philosophical aspects of Eastern and Western Civilizations, philosophy of Abu Turkhan and cognitive theory.
• Zahid Khalilov — mathematician and engineer, who solved the boundary value problem for polyharmonic equations, proposed abstract generalizations of singular integral operators,^[8] founder of the Azerbaijani functional analysis school.
• Firudin bey Kocharli — prominent Azerbaijani philologist, writer and literary critic.
• Yusif Mammadaliyev — chemist, founder of petrochemical science in Azerbaijan.
• Fuad Mamedov — social scientist, who specializes in culturology, founder of Culturology in Azerbaijan and President of Cultural Association Simurgh.
• Vasim Mammadaliyev — philosopher and theologian, who specializes in oriental studies and Arabic philology.
• Garib Mammadov — agronomist.
• Yaqub Mammadov — physiologist, who specializes in pathophysiology.
• Zakir Mammadov — philosopher, who specializes in Eastern philosophy, especially history of Azerbaijani philosophy.
• Mirali Qashqai — geologist, in the fields of geomorphology and stratigraphy.
• Arif Salimov — mathematician, known for his research in differential geometry.
• Farman Salmanov^[9] — geologist, who first discovered oil fields in Siberia, Hero of Socialist Labor.
• Movlazadeh Mahammad Hasan Shakavi — philosopher, theologian, alim and the first Sheikh ul-Islam of the Caucasus and the first scholar who translated the Koran into the Azerbaijani language.
• Zeynalabdin Shirvani — philosopher, poet, traveller and geographer of the pre-Tsarist era.
• Hajibey Sultanov — astronomer.
• Lotfi A. Zadeh^[10] — mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, founder of the fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic.
• Ali Javan — physicist and inventor at MIT with main contributions in the fields of quantum physics and spectroscopy, co-inventor of the gas laser.

References

1. "Sənətşünaslıq elmləri doktoru Zümrüd Quluzadənin 75 yaşı qeyd olunacaq". APA.az (in Azerbaijani). 27 March 2007. Retrieved 27 July 2011.
2. Azerbaijan Soviet Encyclopedia (1987), vol. 10, p. 285
3. Robert P. Geraci. Window on the East: National and Imperial Identities in Late Tsarist Russia. (Cornell University Press, 2001), 310. ISBN 0-8014-3422-X, 9780801434228
4. Perhaps the only exception before Katanov was A.K. Kazembek, an Azeri who converted to Christianity and became a professor of Turkic languages at Kazan and then at St. Petersburg. Kazembek has been referred to as the first European Turkologist of Turkic origin. Robert P. Geraci. Window on the East: National and Imperial Identities in Late Tsarist Russia. Cornell University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8014-3422-X, 9780801434228
5. Not a few in the nineteenth century would have accepted this judgment, and might have echoed Mirza Kazem-Bek, the Russified Azerbaijani orientalist, in asking "What European state has such intimate and inherent ties with Asia and Asiatics as does Russia? Andreas Kappeler, Edward Allworth, Gerhard Simon, Georg Brunner. Muslim Communities Reemerge: Historical Perspectives on Nationality, Politics, and Opposition in the Former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Duke University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-8223-1490-8, ISBN 978-0-8223-1490-5
6. И. Н. Березин, как востоковед, вышел из казанской школы, был учеником… азербайджанца, ираниста А. К. Казембека, который был своеобразной и интересной фигурой. Якубовский А. Ю. Из истории изучения монголов периода XI—XIII вв. — Очерки по истории русского востоковедения. — М., 1953
7. Керимов Керим Аббас-Алиевич (in Russian). Heroes of the country.
8. I. Gohberg, N. Krupnik. One-dimensional linear singular integral equations, vol. 1–2, Birkhäuser, 1992, p. 155
9. Наталья Лебедева (27 September 2005). Открытие сибирской нефти как полет Гагарина (in Russian). "Российская газета".
10. Betty Blair."Short Biographical Sketch". Azerbaijan International, Winter 1994 (2.4), page 49. Accessed August 19, 2005.