Ukraine-born Oleh Hornykiewicz passed away on 26 May 2020 aged 93. His greatest achievement and contribution to humanity was “opening a new approach in the control of Parkinson’s disease by L-Dopa”, as stated by the Wolf Foundation…
Category: History of science
Pan-European twinning grant to re-establish world-level Neuroscience Centre in Kyiv (Project NEUROTWIN)
The overarching goal of the NEUROTWIN project is to re-establish the Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology (BIPH) in Kyiv, Ukraine as an international centre for excellence in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. BIPH became a world-famous center…
Report: International workshop “Ludwik Fleck and His Thought Collectives”
By Natalia Otrishchenko (Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv, Ukraine) How can we place ideas? We link them to people – individuals or groups – and then we locate people and their…
A special issue of the Newsletter has been published
This first special issue of the Newsletter provides a deeper insight into a German-Ukrainian collaborative project dealing with the provenience research related to a unique historical document, to the religious history of Ukraine and echoes…
Vadim Berezinskii and the Berezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless transition, for which John M. Kosterlitz and David J. Thouless were awarded the Nobel Prize in 2016
An interesting insight into the earlier contribution of Kyiv-born Vadim Berezinskii, which was among discoveries that led to the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics: “One year before the work of Kosterlitz and Thouless, Vadim Berezinskii…
Vladimir Betz and a new era of neuroscience started in Kyiv
Do you know Betz’s Giant pyramidal cells? Most probably yes – especially if you have studied a life science subject or neurosciences, to be precise. Do you know that they were discovered in Kyiv by…
Maryna Viazovska Solved the Mathematical Problem First Formulated 400 Years Ago
Ukrainian mathematician Dr Maryna Viazovska, currently working at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, has solved the densest packing problem (first formulated in 1611 by Kepler) in dimension eight. Subsequently, Maryna with her colleagues – Henry…