First Bulgarian-made airplane, world's first airbag
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When discussing aviation pioneers, names like the Wright brothers often dominate history books. However, few people know that the first Bulgarian airplane…
Boicho Kokinov
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Boicho Kokinov (Bulgarian: Бойчо Кокинов) was born on 27 December 1960 – 10 May 2013[1]) was an associate professor in cognitive science…
Elias Canetti
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Elias Canetti (Bulgarian: Елиас Канети; 25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994) was a German-language author, born in Ruse, Bulgaria to a…
Roumen Antonov
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Roumen Antonov is an automotive engineer and inventor, born in 1944 in Sofia, Bulgaria, where he studied engineering, then design, and passed…
Simeon Petrov
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Captain Simeon Petrov, Bulgarian Air Force, invented the world’s first purpose-built air-to-surface bomb in 1912. The innovations included an aerodynamically stabilized x-tail…
Dimitar Sasselov
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Dimitar Sasselov (Bulgarian: Димитър Д. Съселов, born 1961) is a Bulgarian astronomer based in the United States. He is a Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University and director of the…
Dimitar Paskov
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Dimitar Paskov (Bulgarian: Димитър Пасков) is a Bulgarian chemist who led the Sopharma team that extracted Nivalin [1] (Galantamine) in 1959. The original phytopreparation is an extract of…
Samuel Refetoff
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Samuel Refetoff was born 11 June 1937 Ruse, Bulgaria. Later he emigrated to Belgium, where he graduated from French-speaking high school in…
Ivan Mitev
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Professor Ivan Mitev Ivanov (Bulgarian: Иван Митев Иванов) (4 October 1924 – 15 April 2006) was a Bulgarian pediatrician and cardio rheumatologist who discovered the sixth heart tone,[1] called the tone of…
Stamen Grigorov
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Stamen Grigorov (Bulgarian: Стамен Григоров) (October 27, 1878 – October 27, 1945) was a prominent Bulgarian physician and microbiologist. He discovered the Lactobacillus bulgaricus bacillus, which is the true cause…