is a family of military
turbofan engines, developed by the
Lyulka in the
Soviet Union was a successful World War I-era two-bay unequal-span biplane flying boat with a single step hull, designed by Ukrainian and Soviet aircraft designer
Dmitry Pavlovich Grigorovich •
Mikhail Ostrogradsky (1801—1862), mathematician known for the
Divergence theorem and
Ostrogradsky instability, among other results. •
Mykhaylo Maksymovych (1804—1873), botanist, historian, linguist, ethnographer, first rector of
Kyiv University. •
Vladimir Betz (1834—1894), anatomist, histologist. See
Betz cell. •
Ilya Mechnikov (1845—1916), zoologist, awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "in recognition of their work on immunity". •
Ivan Puluj (1845—1918), physicist, inventor. Early developer of the use of
X-rays for
medical imaging. •
Ivan Horbachevsky (1854—1942), chemist. See
Xanthine oxidase. •
Volodymyr Vernadsky (1863—1945), mineralogist and geochemist, founder and first chairman of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. •
Georgy Voronoy (1868—1908), mathematician. See
Voronoi diagram. •
Stephen Timoshenko (1878—1972), engineer. See
Timoshenko beam theory. •
Ivan Schmalhausen (1884—1963), evolutionary biologist, zoologist, one of the central figures in the development of the
modern evolutionary synthesis. •
Igor Sikorsky (1889—1972), aviation pioneer. •
Mikhail Kravchuk (also Krawtchouk) (1892—1942), mathematician. See
Kravchuk polynomials,
Kravchuk matrix. •
Valery Glivenko (1896—1940), mathematician. See
Glivenko–Cantelli theorem,
Glivenko's theorem,
Glivenko–Stone theorem. •
Yuri Kondratyuk (1897—1942), mathematician, engineer. Developed the first known
Lunar Orbit Rendezvous. •
Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900—1975), geneticist, evolutionary biologist. See
Bateson–Dobzhansky–Muller model. •
George Kistiakowsky (1900—1982), physical chemistry professor at Harvard who participated in the Manhattan Project and later served as President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Science Advisor. •
Olexander Smakula (1900—1983), physicist. Inventor of
anti-reflective lens coatings based on
optical interference. •
Aleksandr Markevich (1905—1999), zoologist, parasitologist, founder of the Ukrainian schools of parasitology and invertebrate zoology. •
Oleg Antonov (1906—1984), aircraft designer, and the first chief of the Antonov - a world-famous aircraft company in Ukraine. •
Sergei Korolyov (1907—1966), rocket scientist, chief designer of the
Soviet space program. See
Voskhod,
Vostok,
Soyuz. •
Valentin Glushko (1908—1989), rocket scientist. See
RD-214,
RD-270,
NPO Energomash. •
Arkhip Lyulka (1908—1984), jet engine engineer. See
Lyulka AL-21,
Saturn AL-31,
NPO Saturn. •
Nikolay Bogolyubov (1909—1992), mathematician and theoretical physicist known for a significant contribution to
quantum field theory, classical and quantum
statistical mechanics, and the theory of
dynamical systems. •
Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy (1909—2001), engineer, lead developer of the
Buran spacecraft programme. •
Nikolai Amosov (1913—2002), doctor, heart surgeon, inventor. •
Olexiy Ivakhnenko (1913—2007), computer scientist, mathematician. See
Group method of data handling. •
Vladimir Chelomey (1914—1984), rocket scientist. See
Proton rocket. •
Borys Paton (1918), mechanician, long-term chairman of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. •
Vladimir Marchenko (1922–2026), mathematician. See
Marchenko–Pastur distribution. •
Victor Glushkov (1923—1982), founder of information technology in the Soviet Union, and one of the founders of cybernetics. •
Platon Kostiuk (1924—2010), physiologist, neurobiologist, electrophysiologist, and biophysicist. •
Anatoliy Skorokhod (1930—2011), mathematician. See
Skorokhod integral,
Skorokhod space,
Skorokhod's embedding theorem. •
Oleksandr Sharkovsky (1936), mathematician. See
Sharkovskii's theorem. •
Leonid Pastur (1937), mathematician. See
Marchenko–Pastur distribution. •
Leonid Levin (1948), computer scientist, mathematician. See
Cook–Levin theorem (
NP-completeness of the
boolean satisfiability problem). •
Rostislav Grigorchuk (1953), mathematician. See
Grigorchuk group. •
Vladimir Drinfeld (1954), mathematician. Awarded the
Fields Medal in 1990. See
Quantum group,
Drinfeld-Sokolov-Wilson equation. •
Yury Gogotsi (1961), chemist. •
Maryna Viazovska (1984), mathematician, solved the
sphere-packing problem in
dimension 8, and, in collaboration with others, in dimension 24. •
Maurice Goldhaber(1911-2011), physicist, determined the
helicity of
neutrinos. == History and organization ==