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Bohdan Blazhkevych

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Bohdan Blazhkevych
Богдан Іванович Блажкевич
Born
Bohdan Ivanovych Blazhkevych

(1912-08-28)28 August 1912
Subotiv, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine)
Died10 October 1986(1986-10-10) (aged 74)
NationalityUkrainian
Alma materLviv Polytechnic Institute
Grave of Bohdan Blazhkevych

Bohdan Blazhkevych (Ukrainian: Богдан Іванович Блажкевич; 28 August 1912 – 10 October 1986) was a Ukrainian scientist in the field of theoretical electrical engineering, co-founder of the scientific field of physicometry. Doctor of Technical Sciences (1965), Professor (1965). Honored Worker of Science of the Ukrainian SSR (1976).[1][2]

Biography

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Bohdan Blazhkevych was born on 28 August 1912 in Subotiv, now part of the Halych urban hromada in Ivano-Frankivsk Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine.[1][2]

Studied at the Ternopil Gymnasium, graduated from the Mechanical Faculty of the Lviv Polytechnic Institute (1939). From then on, he worked at his alma mater as a lecturer, senior lecturer (1944), docent (1953), and professor (1965) at the Department of Theoretical Foundations of Electrical Engineering.[1][2]

Later, he worked in the management of the Lviv Electricity Networks Trust (1941–1944); as a senior researcher (from 1954, part-time), head of the Department of Electrical Circuit Theory (1959–1984) and senior researcher-consultant (1984–1986) at the Karpenko Physico-Mechanical Institute in Lviv.[1][2][3]

He died on 10 October 1986 in Lviv, buried on field 34 of the Lychakiv Cemetery.[1][2]

Family

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Son of Ivanna Blazhkevych, father of Khrystyna Chaplin.[1]

Achievements

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Author of more than 200 scientific papers, 6 monographs, 50 copyright certificates.[4]

Research interests: problems of electrical circuit analysis, space instrumentation in Ukraine.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g Блажкевич Богдан Іванович / Є. Д. Васильєв // Енциклопедія Сучасної України [Електронний ресурс] / Редкол. : І. М. Дзюба, А. І. Жуковський, М. Г. Железняк [та ін.] ; НАН України, НТШ, К. : Інститут енциклопедичних досліджень НАН України, 2004.
  2. ^ a b c d e (in Ukrainian) Савак Б., Хома, В., Блажкевич Богдан Іванович // Ternopil Encyclopedic Dictionary: in 4 v. / editorial board: H. Yavorskyi and other, Ternopil: "Zbruch", 2004, V. 1: А—Й, S. 142. — ISBN 966-528-197-6.
  3. ^ Чабан, В. Богдан Блажкевич – видатний учений-електротехнік // Технічні вісті, 2011, № 1—2, s. 120—121, (Трибуна освіти).
  4. ^ Видатний український вчений-фізик Богдан Блажкевич (1912–1986): бібліогр. список / авт. нарису В. І. Хома ; уклад. бібліогр., ред. А. О. Ленчишин ; відп. за вип. В. І. Вітенко ; Терноп. ДОУНБ, Тернопіль : [б. в.], 2000, 7 s.