Kateryna Yushchenko

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Kateryna Yushchenko Lohwyniwna ( Ukrainian Катерина Логвинівна Ющенко , Russian Екатерина Логвиновна Ющенко Yekaterina Yushchenko Logwinowna * 8. December 1919 in Chihirin , Ukrainian People's Republic ; † 15. August 2001 ) was a Ukrainian - Soviet mathematician , Kybernetikerin and high school teacher.

Life

Kateryna Yushchenko was born into a family of teachers in Chyhyryn. Her younger brother Volodymyr Rwatschow (1926-2005) was later rector of the Institute for Radio Electronics and head of the Polytechnic Institute for Theoretical and Mathematical Physics in Kharkiv. Yushchenko spent her childhood and youth in her birthplace. After graduating from school there, she studied from 1936 at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the University of Kiev . After her father was arrested in 1937, Kateryna was considered the daughter of an enemy of the people. As a result, she got into an extremely difficult material and, due to the stigmatization, also a moral situation, which she lingered on for many years. From 1938 she studied at the Central Asian University in Tashkent , which she graduated in 1942. During World War II , it extracted coal in the Angren- Stalin mines 150 km southeast of Tashkent .

In September 1944, after the liberation of western Ukraine from German occupation , she moved to relatives in the Ukraine and worked as a teacher at high schools in Zhytomyr and in Stryj Raion in Lviv Oblast . When a branch of the Institute of Mathematics of the USSR opened in Lviv in August 1946, Kateryna Yushchenko attracted the attention of the academician of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences Boris W. Gnedenko , who hired her and under whose direction she worked at the Institute of Mathematics in 1950 Ukrainian Academy of Sciences graduated. In the same year she was elected a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

From 1950 to 1957 she was a Scientific Member of the Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and from 1957 she was the head of the department of the Computing Center of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR. From 1990 onwards, Yushchenko was an advisor to the management of the Institute of Cybernetics, named after Viktor Gluschkov , of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

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Her scientific work related to probability theory , the theory and creation of algorithmic languages ​​and programming languages, as well as methods for building automated data processing systems. Yushchenko wrote the first programs for the first computer developed by the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences under the direction of Sergei Lebedev . In the forty years of her employment at the Institute of Cybernetics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, she created a scientific school of theoretical programming known in Ukraine and abroad. Of their undergraduate students, more than 50 were science candidates and 14 doctorates. In 1955 she developed the target language - the forerunner of the programming languages ​​and wrote more than 300 scientific papers, including more than 20 monographs and textbooks.

Honors

  • 1978, 1991 State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR in the field of science and technology
  • 1984 Prize of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR
  • 1985 WM Gluschkow Prize
  • 1999 Order of Princess Olga 3rd class

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Entry on Kateryna Yushchenko on the website of the Institute for Cybernetics named after WM Gluschkow of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; accessed on March 25, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ a b Entry on Kateryna Yushchenko on the website of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; accessed on March 25, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ a b Entry on Kateryna Yushchenko in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on March 25, 2018 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Yushchenko, Kateryna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yushchenko, Kateryna Logvinivna (full name); Ющенко, Катерина Логвинівна (Ukrainian); Ющенко, Екатерина Логвиновна (Russian); Yushchenko, Ekaterina Logvinovna (transcribed in Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian-Soviet mathematician, cyberneticist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Tschyhyryn , Ukrainian People's Republic
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 2001