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==Academics== ===Mathematicians=== {{main|Ukrainian mathematicians}} * [[Selig Brodetsky]] (1888β1954), British mathematician, President of the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]] * [[Vladimir Drinfeld]] ({{Birth year and age|1954}}), Fields medal laureate * [[Anatoly Fomenko]] ({{Birth year and age|1945}}) * [[Mark Kac]] (1914β1984), Jewish, Polish-American mathematician * [[Volodymyr Semenovych Korolyuk]] (1925β2020) * [[Mykhailo Krawtchouk]] * [[Yakiv Kulik]] * [[Volodymyr Marchenko]] * [[Mikhail Ostrogradsky]] * [[Volodymyr Petryshyn]] * [[Platon Poretsky]] * [[Vladimir Potapov]] * [[Anatoly Samoilenko]] * [[Oleksandr Mikolaiovich Sharkovsky]] (1936β2022), known for developing [[Sharkovsky's theorem]] on the periods of [[discrete dynamical systems]] * [[Samuil Shatunovsky]] (1859β1929), Jewish mathematician * [[Anatoliy Skorokhod]] * [[Mykhailo Vashchenko-Zakharchenko]] (1825β1912), major areas of research included the [[history of geometry]] in antiquity and [[Lobachevskian geometry]]. * [[Ivan ΕleszyΕski]] (1854β9 March 1931), ethnic Polish Ukrainian mathematician * [[Pavel Urysohn]] (1898β1924), Jewish mathematician * [[Josif Shtokalo]] (1897β1987) * [[Naum Z. Shor]] (1937β2006), Jewish Ukrainian mathematician * [[Maryna Viazovska]] (born 1984), Fields medal laureate, known for her work in [[sphere packing]] * [[Vadim G. Vizing]] * [[Georgy Voronoy]] ===Physicists/Astronomers=== * [[Gersh Budker]], nuclear physicist ([[Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics]]) * [[Georges Charpak]], French physicist (Nobel Prize), born in East Galicia * [[Abram Ioffe]], prominent Soviet physicist (Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute) * [[Isaak Khalatnikov]], BKL conjecture in general relativity * [[Leo Palatnik]], thin film physics * [[Ivan Pulyui]], scientist working with cathode radiation * [[George Yuri Rainich]], mathematical physicist ===Geographers/Geologists=== * [[Volodymyr KubijovyΔ]] * [[Lubomyr Luciuk]], political geographer, community activists * [[Vladimir Vernadsky]], mineralogist, biochemist ===Biologists=== * [[Aleksandr Bogomolets]] * [[Erwin Chargaff]] * [[Theodosius Dobzhansky]] * [[Katherine Esau]] * [[Dmitri Ivanovsky]] * [[Trofim Lysenko]] * [[Oleksandr Palladin]] * [[Kostiantyn Sytnyk]] * [[Vladimir Vernadsky]], mineralogist, biochemist ===Chemists=== * [[Anatoly Babko]] * [[Israel Dostrovsky]] (1918β2010), Russian (Ukraine)-born Israeli physical chemist, fifth president of the [[Weizmann Institute of Science]] * [[Ivan Horbachevsky]] * [[George Kistiakowsky]] * [[Lev Pisarzhevsky]] * [[Swiatoslaw Trofimenko]] * [[Volodymyr Vernadsky]], mineralogist, biochemist * [[Selman Waksman]] (1888β1973), Jewish, Ukrainian-American, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1952) ===Doctors and surgeons=== * [[Nikolai Amosov]], heart surgeon * [[Vitalii Khmel]], military thoracic surgeon * [[Nikolay Pirogov]], inventor of a splint, sling, brace or cast * [[Alexander Shalimov]], surgeon * [[Serdyuk Valentin]], orthopedic surgeon * [[Nicolai L. Volodos]], cardiovascular surgeon * [[Danylo Zabolotny]] * [[Yurii Voronyi]], surgeon ===Engineers=== [[File:Sergey Korolyov 140-190 for collage.jpg|thumb|278x278px|[[Sergei Korolev]]]] * [[Volodymyr Chelomey]], ballistic missile and Ukrainian spacecraft designer * [[Valentyn Hlushko]], European engineer * [[Mykola Holonyak]], first visible diode * [[Volodymyr Horbulin]], developer of strategic rocket systems and space vehicles of "Kosmos" series * [[Sergei Korolev]], ''the father of the [[Soviet space program]]'', inventor of the first [[intercontinental ballistic missile]] and the first [[space rocket]] (''[[R-7 Semyorka]]''), creator of the first [[satellite]] (''[[Sputnik]]''), supervisor of the [[first human spaceflight]] * [[Mykola Kybalchich]], rocket science pioneer * [[Yuri Kondratyuk]], spaceflight pioneer * [[Roman Kroitor]] * [[Volodymyr Mackiw]], mining engineer * [[Borys Paton]] * [[Yevhen Paton]], welding engineer * [[Igor Sikorsky]], aviation pioneer, creator of the first helicopter * [[Stepan Tymoshenko]], father of modern Ukrainian engineering mechanics ===Economists=== * [[Mykhailo Tuhan-Baranovsky]] (1865β1919) * [[Eugen Slutsky]] (1880β1948), born in [[Russian Empire]] in the territory of Ukraine, [[Slutsky equation]] * [[Ludwig von Mises]] (1881β1973), born in [[Austria-Hungary]] in the territory of present-day [[Lviv]]), founding father of the Ukrainian western-style economics * [[Bohdan Hawrylyshyn]] (1926β2016), noted economist, visionary and economic advisor to the Ukrainian government ===Archeologists=== * [[Vikentiy Khvoyka]], discovered [[Trypillia culture]] * [[Simhah Pinsker]] (1801β1864), Polish-Jewish archeologist and scholar * [[Yuriy Shumovskyi]] ===Historians=== * [[Volodymyr Antonovych]], historian and folklorist<ref name=ant/> * [[Kateryna Antonovych-Melnyk]] (1859β1942), Ukrainian historian<ref name=ant>{{Cite book |last1=PETRUK |first1=Oleh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F0xPEAAAQBAJ&dq=Kateryna+Antonovych-Melnyk&pg=PA125 |title=Leopolis Scientifica. Exact Sciences in Lviv until the middle of the 20th century |last2=PRYTULA |first2=Yaroslav |last3=TARNAVSKYI |first3=Roman |last4=SHYSHKA |first4=Oleksander |last5=KACHMAR |first5=Volodymyr |last6=DUDKA |first6=Maksym |last7=HOLOVATCH |first7=Yurij |last8=SAMOTYJ |first8=Renata |last9=SVARNYK |first9=Halyna |page=125|date=2021-10-04 |publisher=Oleh Petruk |isbn=978-966-02-9644-2 |language=en}}</ref> * [[Olena Apanovich]] * [[Volodymyr Barvinok]] * [[Dmytro Doroshenko]] * [[Mykhailo Drahomanov]], historian, political emigre and folklorist * [[Mykhailo Hrushevsky]], historian * [[Taras Hunczak]] * [[Myron Korduba]]<ref name="encyclopediaofukraine1">{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/pages/N/O/Normanisttheory.htm |title=Normanist theory |publisher=Encyclopediaofukraine.com |date=October 24, 1975 |access-date=January 28, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://openlibrary.org/a/OL2033169A/Myron-Korduba |title=Myron Korduba |publisher=Open Library |access-date=January 28, 2011}}</ref> * [[Mykola Kostomarov]], literary historian, folklorist * [[Oleh Kozerod]], political scientist * [[Peter Loboda]], researcher of ancient Ukrainian [[numismatics]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.museum.com.ua/en/rukov/rukov.htm |title=The Odessa Numismatics Museum |publisher=Museum.com.ua |access-date=January 28, 2011}}</ref> * [[George S. N. Luckyj]], literary historian * [[Mykhailo Maksymovych]], literary historian, folklorist * [[Paul Robert Magocsi]], chairman of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto * [[Oleksander Ohloblyn]] * [[Bohdan Osadchuk]], journalist * [[Nataliia Polonska-Vasylenko]] * [[Omeljan Pritsak]], orientalist * [[MikoΕaj Siwicki]], historian * [[Viktor Suvorov]], spy and WWII researcher * [[Dmytro Yavornytsky]], Cossack historian, archaeologist ===Philosophers=== * [[Hryhorii Skovoroda]], philosopher, poet and composer ===Other academics=== * [[Mykola Andrusiv]] * [[Albert Bandura]] * [[Pavel Petrovich Blonsky]] * [[Olgerd Bochkovsky]], sociologist * [[Isydore Hlynka]] * [[Robert Klymasz]], Ukrainian Canadian folklorist * [[Yuriy Kovbasenko]], Ukrainian philologist and educator * [[Volodymyr Kubiyovych]], geographer and encyclopedist * [[Viktor Kyrpychov]] * [[Yuri Linnik]] * [[Lubomyr Luciuk]], political geographer and community activist * [[Anton Makarenko]], Ukrainian and Soviet educator * [[Joseph Oleskiw]] * [[Wilhelm Reich]], psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, pro-Ukrainian freedom dissident * [[Otto Struve]], Ukrainian-Russian-American astronomer * [[Evhen Tsybulenko]], professor of international law * [[Sergiy Vilkomir]], computer scientist * [[Fedir Vovk]], anthropologist and ethnographer
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