Science and technology in Ukraine

Notable people

• Mikhail Ostrogradsky, mathematician known for the Divergence theorem and Ostrogradsky instability, among other results.
• Mykhaylo Maksymovych, botanist, historian, linguist, ethnographer, first rector of Kyiv University.
• Vladimir Betz, anatomist, histologist. See Betz cell.
• Ilya Mechnikov, zoologist, awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "in recognition of their work on immunity".
• Ivan Puluj, physicist, inventor. Early developer of the use of X-rays for medical imaging.
• Ivan Horbachevsky, chemist. See Xanthine oxidase.
• Volodymyr Vernadsky, mineralogist and geochemist, founder and first chairman of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.
• Georgy Voronoy, mathematician. See Voronoi diagram.
• Stephen Timoshenko, engineer. See Timoshenko beam theory.
• Ivan Schmalhausen, evolutionary biologist, zoologist, one of the central figures in the development of the modern evolutionary synthesis.
• Igor Sikorsky, aviation pioneer.
• Mikhail Kravchuk , mathematician. See Kravchuk polynomials, Kravchuk matrix.
• Valery Glivenko, mathematician. See Glivenko–Cantelli theorem, Glivenko's theorem, Glivenko–Stone theorem.
• Yuri Kondratyuk, mathematician, engineer. Developed the first known Lunar Orbit Rendezvous.
• Theodosius Dobzhansky, geneticist, evolutionary biologist. See Bateson–Dobzhansky–Muller model.
• George Kistiakowsky, physical chemistry professor at Harvard who participated in the Manhattan Project and later served as President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Science Advisor.
• Olexander Smakula, physicist. Inventor of anti-reflective lens coatings based on optical interference.
• Aleksandr Markevich, zoologist, parasitologist, founder of the Ukrainian schools of parasitology and invertebrate zoology.
• Oleg Antonov, aircraft designer, and the first chief of the Antonov - a world-famous aircraft company in Ukraine.
• Sergei Korolyov, rocket scientist, chief designer of the Soviet space program. See Voskhod, Vostok, Soyuz.
• Valentin Glushko, rocket scientist. See RD-214, RD-270, NPO Energomash.
• Arkhip Lyulka, jet engine engineer. See Lyulka AL-21, Saturn AL-31, NPO Saturn.
• Nikolay Bogolyubov, mathematician and theoretical physicist known for a significant contribution to quantum field theory, classical and quantum statistical mechanics, and the theory of dynamical systems.
• Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy, engineer, lead developer of the Buran spacecraft programme.
• Nikolai Amosov, doctor, heart surgeon, inventor.
• Olexiy Ivakhnenko, computer scientist, mathematician. See Group method of data handling.
• Vladimir Chelomey, rocket scientist. See Proton rocket.
• Borys Paton, mechanician, long-term chairman of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
• Vladimir Marchenko, mathematician. See Marchenko–Pastur distribution.
• Victor Glushkov, founder of information technology in the Soviet Union, and one of the founders of cybernetics.
• Platon Kostiuk, physiologist, neurobiologist, electrophysiologist, and biophysicist.
• Anatoliy Skorokhod, mathematician. See Skorokhod integral, Skorokhod space, Skorokhod's embedding theorem.
• Oleksandr Sharkovsky, mathematician. See Sharkovskii's theorem.
• Leonid Pastur, mathematician. See Marchenko–Pastur distribution.
• Leonid Levin, computer scientist, mathematician. See Cook–Levin theorem.
• Rostislav Grigorchuk, mathematician. See Grigorchuk group.
• Vladimir Drinfeld, mathematician. Awarded the Fields Medal in 1990. See Quantum group, Drinfeld-Sokolov-Wilson equation.
• Yury Gogotsi, chemist.
• Maryna Viazovska, mathematician, solved the sphere-packing problem in dimension 8, and, in collaboration with others, in dimension 24.