Science and technology in Ukraine

The modern development of science and technology in Ukraine has its historical origins in the 18th century and is associated with the Kyiv Mohyla Academy. The founding of Ukraine's main research institution, the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, in 1918 by Volodymyr Vernadsky marked an important milestone in the country's subsequent scientific and technological development.

Ukraine's space science advanced rapidly in the aftermath of World War II, with Korolyov, Glushko and Chelomey leading the rocket and spaceflight development in the Soviet Union during the Space Race.

Notable people

• Mikhail Ostrogradsky, mathematician known for the Divergence theorem and Ostrogradsky instability, among other results.
• Georgy Voronoy, mathematician. See Voronoi diagram.
• Mikhail Kravchuk (also Krawtchouk), mathematician. See Kravchuk polynomials, Kravchuk matrix.
• Anatoliy Skorokhod, mathematician. See Skorokhod integral, Skorokhod space, Skorokhod's embedding theorem.
• Vladimir Marchenko, mathematician. See Marchenko–Pastur distribution.
• Leonid Pastur, mathematician. See Marchenko–Pastur distribution.
• Rostislav Grigorchuk, mathematician. See Grigorchuk group.
• Vladimir Drinfeld, mathematician. Awarded the Fields Medal in 1990. See Quantum group, Drinfeld-Sokolov-Wilson equation.
• Oleksandr Sharkovsky, mathematician. See Sharkovskii's theorem.
• Valery Glivenko, mathematician. See Glivenko–Cantelli theorem, Glivenko's theorem, Glivenko–Stone theorem.
• Stephen Timoshenko, engineer. See Timoshenko beam theory.
• Valentin Glushko, rocket scientist. See RD-214, RD-270, NPO Energomash.
• Vladimir Chelomey, rocket scientist. See Proton rocket.
• Sergei Korolyov, rocket scientist, chief designer of the Soviet space program. See Voskhod, Vostok, Soyuz.
• Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy, engineer, lead developer of the Buran spacecraft programme.
• Arkhip Lyulka, jet engine engineer. See Lyulka AL-21, Saturn AL-31, NPO Saturn.
• Yuri Kondratyuk, mathematician, engineer. Developed the first known Lunar Orbit Rendezvous.
• Olexander Smakula, physicist. Inventor of anti-reflective lens coatings based on optical interference.
• Ivan Puluj, physicist, inventor. Early developer of the use of X-rays for medical imaging.
• Leonid Levin, computer scientist, mathematician. See Cook–Levin theorem (NP-completeness of the boolean satisfiability problem).
• Olexiy Ivakhnenko, computer scientist, mathematician. See Group method of data handling.
• Vladimir Betz, anatomist, histologist. See Betz cell.
• Theodosius Dobzhansky, geneticist, evolutionary biologist. See Bateson–Dobzhansky–Muller model.
• Ivan Horbachevsky, chemist. See Xanthine oxidase.

External links

• Modern Ukrainian online science magazine Science Ukraine