Ihor Yukhnovskyi
Ihor Yukhnovskyi is a Ukrainian physicist, politician, and statesman, a member of the Presidium of Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Hero of Ukraine.
Yukhnovskyi was born September 1, 1925 in Kniahynyny village, Dubno powiat, Woy Voivodeship . In 194445 participated in World War II on a side of Soviet Army. In 1951 he became the head of Theoretical Physics Department at Lviv University. In 1969 Yukhnovskyi, at that time Doctor of Physics and Mathematics led the newly organized Department of Statistical Theory of Condensed Matter. in 1980 the department was reorganized into the Lviv division of statistical physics for the Institute for Theoretical Physics, and then in 1990 into the Institute of Condensed Matter Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
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