Armais Arutunoff, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 21-Jun-1893
Place of Birth: Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, Georgia
Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001
Profession: inventor, mechanical engineer
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Armais Arutunoff
- Armais Sergeevich Arutunoff (June 21, 1893 - February 1978) was an inventor of technology for oil drilling.
- He was born in Tiflis, then part of the Russian Empire.
- He emigrated to the United States in 1923, and moved to Oklahoma in 1928, where he started a company to build an electric submersible pump for use at the bottom of oil boreholes.
- By 1938 it is estimated that two percent of all oil produced in the US was lifted by an Arutunoff pump.
- He was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1974.
- The company he started, soon renamed Reda Pump, an acronym of Russian Electrical Dynamo of Arutunoff, was acquired by Schlumberger.
- He died in February 1978 in Bartlesville.
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