Asgar Abdullayev (scientist)

Askar Alakbar oghlu Abdullayev (; 1 January 1927, Eyvazli village, Gubadli district, Azerbaijan SSR – 15 April 1998, Baku, Azerbaijan) was a Soviet and Azerbaijani electrical engineer, scientist, doctor of technical sciences, the USSR State Prize laureate (1969), corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR (1969), professor (1970), the USSR Council of Ministers Prize laureate (1988).

Biography Abdullayev was born on January 1, 1927, in the village of Eyvazli, Gubadli district, Azerbaijan SSR. He graduated from high school in 1943. In 1949 he graduated from the Energy Department of the Azerbaijan Industrial Institute. After a short work at the Institute of Power Engineering of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR, he started postgraduate studies at the Institute of Automation and Telemechanics (IAT) of the USSR Academy of Sciences supervised by M. A. Aizerman.

In 1953 he defended his Ph.D. thesis on the automation of oil production in compressor wells and worked for the IAT as a junior researcher for three years (1951-1954). He was a member of the CPSU since 1953. In 1954, Abdullayev headed the laboratory of automation and telemechanics under the AZINMASH Institute of Petroleum Engineering and initiated the works on integrated automation in the oil fields of Azerbaijan. Since 1956 he was senior researcher.

He died on April 15, 1998, Baku, Azerbaijan.

Memory In late 2007, on the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of the birth of A.A.Abdullayev, the Baku publishing house “Nauka” published a bibliographic book Askar Abdullayev – 80 in the series "Azerbaijani figures of science and culture".