Українською+англійською мовою, слайди англійською мовою / In Ukrainian+english, slides in English
Ukraine’s declaration of independence in 1991 made it possible for Ukrainian researchers and cultural figures to conduct their own investigations and to reconsider the history of Ukraine and Ukrainians, despite the powerful influence inherited from previous regimes.
The authorities of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union systematically provided a policy aimed at eroding the local...
This presentation is dedicated to a joint historical research project carried out by scholars from the University of Basel and Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. The project examines the interconnections between modern technologies, their emergence and use, and social and cultural transformations in Ukraine during the period of Soviet rule (1922–1991). It highlights the specific...
Concentrating on the KGB archival files, this paper analyses technological and industrial espionage of the KGB, which targeted mainly the American and Western European science and technology, providing the Ukrainian scientific centers and factories with the stolen “innovations” from America. The KGB used academic exchanges as a tool for technological espionage.
Українською мовою, Слайди англійською мовою / In Ukrainian, slides in English
Vasyl’ Karazin (1773–1842) is best known as the founder of Kharkiv University (1804), one of the oldest universities in Eastern Europe. At the same time, he became the first Ukrainian polymath, and many of his ideas remain resonant with the global trends of the modern world. Vasyl’ Karazin is considered the first Ukrainian physicist. He was not directly involved in the study of particle...
In 1965, the electron linear accelerator (Linac) with the beam energy of up to 2 GeV was put into operation at the Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology (KIPT), thus becoming the largest electron accelerator in Europe at the time. Among the initiators of construction of the facility was Anton K. Valter (1905 – 1965), whereas Pavel V. Sorokin (1930 – 2017) headed the research program on...
I will review directions of theoretical studies of physicists from NSC Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology during the past 10-15 years. Relation of these studies to experimental programs at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, and electron-positron colliders (KEKB, BEPC II) will be discussed. One of the main objectives of these studies is the search for effects of CP-symmetry...
D.V. Volkov in CERN
2025 marked the 100th anniversary of Dmitry Vasilyevich Volkov, one of Ukraine's outstanding theoretical physicists who laid the foundations of modern high-energy/particle physics. Volkov was one of the few Soviet/Ukrainian scientists who gained international recognition early in his scientific career. Therefore, it is no coincidence that he was invited to join...
Gleb Wataghin arrived in Brazil in 1934 with the mission of establishing a Physics Department at the newly founded University of São Paulo. He found no building, no laboratory, no equipment, and no colleagues, and had to start from scratch. Drawing on his experience, deep knowledge, extraordinary energy, enthusiasm, and diplomatic skills, he succeeded in training a generation of physicists...
In 1992, Ludmyla Nagorna, from the Institute for Single Crystals in Kharkiv, proposed to use lead tungstate crystals (PbWO4) for particle physics experiments. They are now at the heart of calorimeters of the ALICE and CMS detectors at the Large Hadron Collidear at CERN.
Серед представників фізичної школи ядерних досліджень Харкова не можна оминути постать талановитого дослідника-фізика, доктора фізико-математичних наук, професора, Лауреата Премії НАН України імені К. Д. Синельникова – Рувіна Йосель-Гиршевича Гарбера. Він народився 13 січня 1909 р. в Одесі у багатодітній родині (у родині було 8 дітей). Батько працював робітником, мати була домогосподаркою....
The talk explores the origins of modern mathematical physics in Kyiv and provides an overview of M. Bogolyubov's manuscripts created at the Institute of Mathematics.
Note that the Institute of Mathematics officially admitted M. Bogolyubov as a senior researcher on March 1, 1945. On April 1, he assumed the head of the Department of Asymptotic Methods and Statistical Mechanics. The dismissal...
Фахівці Харківської технологічної команди, у тісній співпраці з вченими Інституту теоретичної фізики ім. М.М. Боголюбова НАН України, приймають активну участь у створенні високотехнологічних компонентів для детекторних систем міжнародних експериментів фізики елементарних частинок з 1996 року.
Лідери команди (проф. Зінов’єв Г. та проф. Борщов В.) були одними з представників українських...