We cordially invite you to the next event, in an online format, within our “Science first hand” lecture series: Announcement (download in Ukrainian) Speaker: Dr. Oleg Feia, researcher at…
Category: History of science
Commemorative: Borys Paton (1918-2020)
On August 19, 2020, the President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Academician Borys Paton, passed away. Commemoration by Yuri Gleba (in Ukrainian) Official press release…
To the 100th birth aniversary of Bohdan Osadchuk
This year, on August the 1st, the Ukrainian and Polish cultural communities celebrate the 100th birth anniversary of Bohdan Osadchuk (1920-2011), a renown intellectual of the twentieth century,…
Commemorative: Oleh Hornykiewicz, world’s leading neuroscientist (1926-2020)
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…
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…
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 –…
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deeper insight into a German-Ukrainian collaborative project dealing with the provenience research related to a unique historical document, to…
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…
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…
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.…