Made in Bulgaria, Used Worldwide: Chaos, Telerik and Payhawk | Български компании със световен успех
An Academy Award-winning renderer, a $262.5 million exit and Bulgaria's first unicorn. Meet three Bulgarian tech companies that went global.
Valya Balkanska: The Bulgarian Voice Travelling Through Space | Валя Балканска
A Rhodope folk song sung by Valya Balkanska is on the Voyager Golden Record, travelling beyond our solar system since 1977.
Hristo Stoichkov: Bulgaria’s Ballon d’Or Hero of 1994 | Христо Стоичков
Fourth in the world, top scorer at the World Cup and winner of the Ballon d'Or: 1994 was Bulgaria's greatest football year, led by Hristo Stoichkov.
Elias Canetti: The Nobel Prize Winner Born in Ruse | Елиас Канети
Born in Ruse on the Danube, Elias Canetti won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature. His memoir begins with his childhood in Bulgaria.
Stranski and Krastanov: The Bulgarian Science Inside Your Smartphone | Странски и Кръстанов
The Stranski–Krastanov growth mode, described by two Bulgarian scientists in 1938, is used to make quantum dots, lasers and LEDs.
Georgi Nadjakov: The Bulgarian Physicist Behind the Photocopier | Георги Наджаков
In 1937, in a Sofia lab with simple equipment, Georgi Nadjakov discovered the photoelectret state of matter, the science behind photocopiers and laser printers.
Christo: The Boy from Gabrovo Who Wrapped the World | Христо Явашев
He wrapped the Reichstag, set saffron gates across Central Park and let people walk on water. Meet Christo, Bulgaria's most famous artist.
The Cyrillic Alphabet: Bulgaria’s Gift to 250 Million People | Кирилицата
Russians, Ukrainians, Serbs and Mongolians all write in Cyrillic, an alphabet born in the First Bulgarian Empire. Here is its story.
Stamen Grigorov: The Doctor Who Discovered the Secret of Bulgarian Yogurt | Стамен Григоров
In 1905 a young Bulgarian medical student in Geneva found the bacterium that turns milk into yogurt. Today it is called Lactobacillus bulgaricus.
John Atanasoff: The Bulgarian-American Who Built the First Electronic Digital Computer | Джон Атанасов
Every laptop and phone owes something to John Atanasoff, the son of a Bulgarian immigrant who built the first electronic digital computer in the late 1930s.