National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute"
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founding | 1885 |
Sponsorship | state |
place | Kharkiv , Ukraine |
Rector | Yevhen Sokol |
Students | 22,000 (2020) |
Employee | 4500 |
including professors | 194 |
Website | http://www.kpi.kharkov.ua/ |
The National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute" ( Ukrainian Національний технічний університет "Харківський політехнічний інститут" , Russian Харьковский политехнический институт ) is a technical university in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv . The Technical University of Kharkiv is the largest and oldest technical university in eastern Ukraine . It was founded in 1885 and today has 22,000 students enrolled (as of 2020). The first rector was the Russian engineer Viktor Lwowitsch Kirpitschow .
Teaching and research focus
- mechanics
- Materials science
- Reliability theory
- Chemical engineering
- Cryogenics
- Nuclear physics
- Electrical engineering
- Drive technology, especially diesel engines
Nobel Prize Winner
Lew Landau , head of the University's Institute for Theoretical Physics since 1932, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1962 for his work on the theory of condensed matter .
Web links
- Official website (English, Russian, Ukrainian)
Footnotes
- ↑ Національний технічний університет "Харківський політехнічний інститут" (НТУ ХПІ). Retrieved May 31, 2020 (Ukrainian).
- ↑ https://www.spektrum.de/magazin/die-geheimakte-lew-landau/824231