List of Tatars - Scientists and Mathematicians

Scientists and Mathematicians

  • Gabdulkhay Akhatov - linguist, Professor
  • Renat Akchurin - cardiologist who performed the quadruple bypass surgery on President Boris Yeltsin in 1996
  • Rifkat Bogdanov - Mathematician
  • Nighmat Ibrahimov - Lobachevsky's teacher and the author of the text of the popular Russian folk song "Vo pole berezon'ka stoyala"
  • Shigabetdin Marjani - Muslim theologian and historian
  • Gilem Kamay - chemist, one of the first Tatar professors of Kazan University
  • Kayum Nasyri - influential writer (18th century), scientist
  • Roald Sagdeev - nuclear physicist, former science advisor to President Gorbachev, former Director of the Russian Space Research Institute in Moscow (1973–1988)
  • Myakzyum Salakhov - physicist, Professor
  • Rashid Syunaev - astrophysicist
  • Albert Galeev - nuclear physicist, former Director of the Space Research Institute in Moscow (1988–2002)
  • Kamil Valiev - member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, physicist
  • Haroun Tazieff - vulcanologist and geologist (Tatar father)
  • Vil Mirzayanov - chemistry scientist, known to be chased by Russia's Federal Security Service and then emigrated to USA

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