National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Coordinates: 50 ° 26 ′ 41.6 ″ N , 30 ° 30 ′ 45.7 ″ E
| National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine | |
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| founding | November 27, 1918 |
| Sponsorship | state |
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Kiev , Ukraine
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| president | vacant |
| Website | nas.gov.ua |
The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine ( Ukrainian Національна академія наук України Nazionalna akademija nauk Ukrainy , Russian Национальная академия наук Украины Nazionalnaja akademija nauk Ukrainy ; English National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine , abbreviated НАН or NAS ) is a Ukrainian scientific institution in Kiev .
history
The Ukrainian Academy of Sciences was founded on November 27, 1918 and was the oldest in the former Soviet Union after the Russian one .
In the founding years, the academy had three research departments (history and philology, physics and mathematics, social sciences) with three institutes, fifteen specialist commissions and the national library . In 1991 the Institute for Ukrainian Language was founded. Since 2000 the NAS has been divided into three sections with thirteen departments and almost 170 institutes and other research facilities with over 13,000 employees.
The academy has founded numerous scientific institutes, mostly by prominent scientists like the mathematicians Dmitri Grawe , Nikolai Krylow , Nikolai Bogolyubov ; the physicists Kirill Sinelnikow , Lev Schubnikow , Vadim Laschkarjow , Alexander Achijeser , Alexander Davydow , Semen Braude ; the geologist Pawlo Tutkowskyj , chemists Lew Pyssarschewskyj , Oleksandr Brodskyj ; the biologists and physicians Oleksandr Bohomolez , Vladimir Filatow , Nikolai Cholodny , Iwan Schmalhausen , Volodymyr Morhun ; the orientalist Ahatanhel Krymskyj as well as the linguist Leonid Bulachowskyj and the writer Serhiy Jefremow .
The world's best-known institutes are the Institute for Electric Welding founded by Yevgeny Paton in 1934 ("EO Paton Electric Welding Institute") and the Institute for Cybernetics founded by Viktor Gluschkow ("Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics").
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Names
The academy changed its name four times. First existing as the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences from 1918 to 1921, it was known from 1921 to 1936 as the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and from 1936 to 1991 Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR or Academy of Sciences of the USSR (AN-USSR) . In 1991 it was named Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and in 1994 it was given the title of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine .
Academy presidents
- 1918–1919 Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky
- 1921-1922 Mykola Wassylenko
- March – May 1922 Orest Lewyzkyj
- 1922–1928 Vladimir Ippolitowitsch Lipski
- 1928–1929 Danylo Sabolotnyj
- 1930-1946 Oleksandr Bohomolets
- 1946–1962 Alexander Palladin
- 1962-2020 Borys Paton
Web links
- Website NAS (English)
- The EOPaton Electric Welding Institute (PEWI)
- Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics
Individual evidence
- ^ National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine ; accessed on November 20, 2016
- ^ Website of the History Academy of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; accessed on November 27, 2016