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Names and Formulae

The University community comprises many a thousand people. The names of some of them are imprinted in the names of laws and formulae, minerals and plants, space and geographical objects, etc.

  • Aleksander Akhiezer

    physicist, academician

    Named after Aleksander Akhiezer:

    • • Akhiezer mechanism

    Vil Bakirov

    sociologist, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

    Named after Vil Bakirov:

    • • asteroid 18731 Vill'bakirov

  • Nikolai Barabashov

    astronomer, academician, Hero of Socialist Labor

    Named after Nikolai Barabashov:

    • • crater on Mars
    • • minor planet 2883 Barabashov
    • • street in Kharkiv
    • • subway station in Kharkiv
    • • tulips kind

    Andrei Beketov

    botanist, academician

    Named after Andrei Beketov:

    • • Erodium beketowii Schmalh

  • Sergei Bernstein

    mathematician, academician

    Named after Sergei Bernstein:

    • Bernstein's problem
    • • Bernstein's theorem
    • • Bernstein's method
    • • Bernstein's inequality
    • • Bernstein's formula, etc.

    Aleksandr Beletsky

    iterary critic, academician

    Named after Aleksandr Beletsky:

    • • street in Kyiv
    • • street in Kharkiv

  • Semion Braude

    radiophysicist, academician

    Named after Semion Braude:

    • • crater on the Moon
    • • minor planet 18119 Braude

    Anton Walter

    physicist, academician

    Named after Anton Walter:

    • • street in Kharkiv

  • Leonard Girshman

    physician, professor

    Named after Leonard Girshman:

    • • street in Kharkiv

    Oles Honchar

    writer, Hero of Ukraine, academician

    Named after Oles Honchar:

    • • street in Bila Tserkva
    • • street in Dnipropetrovsk
    • • street in Kyiv
    • • street in Kharkiv

  • Viktor Gramma

    biologist

    Named after Viktor Gramma:

    • • Hydrophilidae kind

    Vasily Danilewsky

    physiologist, academician

    Named after Vasily Danilewsky:

    • • bird parasites
    • • street in Kharkiv

  • Iustin Dzhanelidze

    surgeon, Hero of Socialist Labor, academician

    Named after Iustin Dzhanelidze:

    • • Dzhanelidze technique of reduction of dislocation
    • • Dzhanelidze incision
    • • Dzhanelidze amputation

    Marin Drinov

    historian, academician

    Named after Marin Drinov:

    • • street in Sofia (Bulgaria)
    • • street in Panagyurishte (Bulgaria)

  • Aleksandr Eltekov

    chemist, professor

    Named after Aleksandr Eltekov:

    • • Eltekov rule
    • • Eltekov conversion

    Fyodor Inozemtsev

    physician, educator, public figure, professor

    Named after Fyodor Inozemtsev:

    • • nozemtsev's drops

  • Vladimir Kavrayskiy

    geodesist, astronomer, cartographer, professor

    Named after Vladimir Kavrayskiy:

    • • Kavrayskiy method
    • • Kavrayskiy projection
    • • Kavrayskiy direction finder
    • • Kavrayskiy tiltmeter

    Vasyl Karazin

    University founder, inventor, scholar, public figure

    Named after Vasyl Karazin:

    • • street in Kharkiv

  • Aleksandr Kopylenko

    writer

    Named after Aleksandr Kopylenko:

    • • street in Kyiv
    • • street in Kharkiv

    Arnold Kosevich

    physicist, corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

    Named after Arnold Kosevich:

    • • Lifshitz-Kosevich formula

  • Nikolay Kostomarov

    історик, етнограф, письменник, академік

    Named after Nikolay Kostomarov:

    • • street in Kyiv
    • • street in Kharkiv

    Andrei Krasnov

    geographer, botanist, professor

    Named after Andrei Krasnov:

    • • mountain on Sakhalin in the Lamanon mountains
    • • glacier on Novaya Zemlya archipelago
    • • Rocks in Antarctica

  • Nikolai Kulchitsky

    histologist, embryologist, state figure, professor

    Named after Nikolai Kulchitsky:

    • • Kulchitsky cells
    • • Kulchitsky method

    Ivan Lazarevich

    physician, professor

    Named after Ivan Lazarevich:

    • • Lazarevich's forceps

  • Lev Landau

    physicist, academician, Nobel Prize laureate

    Named after Lev Landau:

    • • Landau diamagnetism
    • • Landau quantization
    • • Landau critical point
    • • Landau pole
    • • Landau levels
    • • Landau attenuation
    • • Landau-Ginzburg model
    • • Landau subzones
    • • Landauite mineral, etc.

    Ilya Lifshitz

    physicist, academician

    Named after Ilya Lifshitz:

    • • Lifshitz method
    • • Lifshitz model
    • • Lifshitz transition
    • • Lifshitz point, etc.

  • Aleksandr Lyapunov

    mathematician, mechanician, academician

    Named after Aleksandr Lyapunov:

    • • Lyapunov's theorem
    • • Lyapunov function
    • • Lyapunov transformations
    • • Lyapunov stability theory
    • • Lyapunov’s methods
    • • street in Kharkiv
    • • crater on the Moon, etc.

    Ilya Mechnikov

    physiologist, embryologist, academician, Nobel Prize laureate

    Named after Ilya Mechnikov:

    • • Mechnikov's ointment
    • • Mechnikov's macrophages
    • • Mechnikov's theory of phagocytosis
    • • Mechnikov curdled milk
    • • crater on the Moon
    • • lane in Kharkiv, etc.

  • Alexander Nikolsky

    zoologist, academician

    Named after Alexander Nikolsky:

    • • mountain, mountain uplift, and village on Sakhalin island

    Mikhail Ostrogradsky

    mathematician, academician

    Named after Mikhail Ostrogradsky:

    • • street in Poltava
    • • street in Kryvyi Rih
    • • Ostrogradsky method
    • • Ostrogradsky formula
    • • mountain in Norway (Spitsbergen), etc.