Ivan Vakarchuk
| Ivan Oleksandrovych Vakarchuk Іван Олександрович Вакарчук | |
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| Born |
6 March 1947 Brătuşeni, Edineț District Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality |
 Ukraine |
| Occupation | Scientist |
| Title | Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine, Honorary Doctor of Cracow Pedagogical Academy, Hero of Ukraine |
| Spouse(s) | Svitlana Oleksandrivna Vakarchuk |
| Children |
Svyatoslav Vakarchuk (1975) Oleg Vakarchuk (1980) |
| Awards |
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Ivan Vakarchuk is a Ukrainian physicist. From 1990 to 2007 and again between 2010 and 2013 he was Rector of the Lviv University. In 2007-2010 he was Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine. Hero of Ukraine (awarded on 5 March 2007). Father of the leader of the rock band "Okean Elzy" Svyatoslav Vakarchuk.
Biography
Ivan Vakarchuk was born on March 6, 1947, in Stari Bratushany village, Edinetsky rayon, Moldavian SSR.[1]
Education
In 1965-1970 he studied at the Faculty of Physics at Lviv University named after Ivan Franko, in 1970-1973 he continued his studies at the postgraduate faculty of the Lviv Institute of theoretical physics, affiliated with USSR Academy of Sciences.[2][3]
In 1974 he defended his PhD thesis "Application of the method of displacements and collective variables in the study of interacting Bose particles near absolute zero", and in 1980 his doctoral thesis "Microscopic theory of Bose liquid".[4] Ivan Vakarchuk is representing the Lviv school of statistical physics founded by academician of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine I.Yukhnovsky.
Career
In 1973-1984 Ivan Vakarchuk was working at the Lviv branch of the Institute for Theoretical Physics affiliated with USSR Academy of Sciences (now is the Institute of Condensed Matter Physics of National Academy of Sciences) as: junior research assistant, senior researcher, head of Quantum Statistics department.
Since 1984 he's been performing the duties of Professor, head of department of Theoretical Physics at Lviv State Ivan Franko University.[2][3][5]
On November 13, 1990 Ivan Vakarchuk was elected the rector of Lviv State University named after Ivan Franko (current name - Lviv National University named after Ivan Franko) and worked till November 2007.
On December 18, 2007 he was appointed the Minister of education and science of Ukraine.[1][3] Later he hold this office again between 2010 and 2013.
Achievements in science
Ivan Vakarchuk has the rank of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor, PhD with the thesis: "Application of the method of displacements and collective variables in the study of interacting Bose particles near absolute zero" (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Academy of Sciences of USSR, 1974) doctoral thesis on "Microscopic theory of Bose liquid '(Institute for Theoretical Physics, USSR Academy of Sciences, 1980).
A distinctive feature of professor Ivan Vakarchuk is the amplitude of his scientific interests: physics of quantum liquids, theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena, physics of disordered systems, magnetic systems, physics, mathematical methods in theoretical physics, fundamental problems of quantum mechanics and quantum computer sciences, geophysics, general relativity theory, cosmology, philosophy of science. In each of these fields he proposed new original approaches to the study of various physical phenomena and processes. The amplitude of his scientific interests allows him applying methods, which he invented to study different phenomena.
Ivan Vakarchuk pays articular attention to the latest achievements in science and philosophy of science issues, including the relationship between research methods of natural sciences and humanities, identifying common math mechanisms that "manage" the processes occurring in the humanitarian and social spheres.
He is the author of over 240 scientific papers. Author of the books: "Lectures on General Relativity" (1991), "Quantum Mechanics" (1998, 2004, 2007, 2012) "Introduction to the many-body problem" (1999), "The Theory of Stellar Spectra" (2003).[6]
Titles and awards
- Founder and Editor-in-chief of the "Journal of Physics Research" and the popular science magazine "World of Physics"
- Member of the Commission of state awards and heraldry
- Member of the Committee on State Prizes of Ukraine in science and technology
- Vice-President of the Union of rectors of higher educational establishments of Ukraine
- Member of the editorial board of the journal "Higher Education in Ukraine"
- Chairman of the board of the Lviv Regional Peace Council
- President of the Ukrainian Physical Society
- Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine
- Member of the Council on Science and Science and Technology Policy under the President of Ukraine
- Awardee of the State Prize of Ukraine in science and technology
- Awardee of Barabashov prize, National Academy of Sciences
- Honorary Doctor of the Cracow Pedagogical Academy
- Member of the organizing committee for the preparation and celebration of the 1020th anniversary of Baptism of Kiev Rus
- Diploma by the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine "Expert of Public Education in USSR"
- Diploma of Merit by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
- Order of Merit, 3rd class (February 2005)
- Hero of Ukraine (2007)[2][4]
Family
Ivan Vakarchuk is married, his wife Svetlana (b. 1947) is teacher of physics, assistant professor of Lviv National Academy of veterinary medicine named after S.Gzhitsky.[5]
They have two sons: Svyatoslav Vakarchuk (b. 1975), who is a frontman of "Okean Elzy", the famous Ukrainian rock band,[7] and Oleg (b. 1980) - a bank employee.[5]
Interesting facts
- Ivan Vakarchuk is born in the same village as Anatoliy Kinakh
- In 2008, Ivan Vakarchuk took the 50th place in the Top 100 of the most influential Ukrainians, according to Reporter magazine
- During the 2004' presidential elections, he openly called students to vote for Viktor Yushchenko[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 УБОП : Досье : Вакарчук Иван Александрович
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Основні дати життя і діяльності Івана Вакарчука
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Иван Вакарчук (Ivan Vakarchuk) - все о знаменитости
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Вакарчук Іван Олександрович, доктор фізико-математичних наук - наукова біографія
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Вакарчук Иван. ДОСЬЕ :: Персональный сайт Сергея Руденко
- ↑ Complete Bibliography of the Department for Theoretical Physics, University of Lviv (since 1872)
- ↑ Okean Elzy