Roald Hoffmann: "Ukraine – a land of contentment of my heart"

Famous American scientist, Nobel laureate in chemistry Roald Hoffman (birth name – Roald Safran) was born on 18 July 1937 in the city­ Zolochiv in Lviv, then the territory of Poland, into a Jewish family of an engineer, a graduate of Lviv Polytechnic Hillel Safran and teacher Clara Rosen.­­­­­ It

Valentin Georgievich Kolobrodov turns 70!

June 19, 2017 marks the 70th anniversary of Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences Valentin Georgievich Kolobrodov, head of Optical and Optoelectronic Devices Department of the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute Instrument-Making Faculty.

Ivan Vasyliovych Beiko celebrates his 80th anniversary!

On April 11, 2017 Ivan Vasyliovych Beiko, Professor of the Department of Mathematical Physics (KMF), FMF Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, a renowned scientist in the field of mathematical and computer modelling and complex systems optimal control, celebrated his 80th anniversary.

Michael Faraday, the way in science

On September 22nd was 225 years since the birth of the great English scientist Michael Faraday (September 22, 1791 - August 25, 1867), two discoveries which lie at the base of electroenergy: in 1821 he created the prototype of the electric motor, and in 1831 discovered the phenomenon of elect

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