|| 1941–1942

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| Aleksandr Palladin || 1946–1962

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| Borys Paton || 1962–2020

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| Anatoly Zagorodny || 2020 – incumbent

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Chief scientific secretary

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! colspan=2 | Secretaries of the Academy

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| Ahatanhel Krymsky || 1918–1928

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| Ovksentiy Korchak-Chepurivsky || 1928–1934

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| Izrail Agol || 1934–1937

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| Mykhailo Kyrpychenko || 1941

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| V.Chudynov || 1941–1942

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| Anatoliy Shpak ||

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| Anatoly Zagorodny || 2009–2011

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| Vyacheslav Bohdanov || 2015 –

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Structure and administration

The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine according to its official status is a higher scientific self-governed organization of Ukraine and was founded on a state property. The <u>self-government</u> of the Academy is kept in independent determination of its research's thematic and forms of its organization and realization, formation of its organizational structure, solving own issues with administration of research, its financing, and professional cadres, fulfillment of its international scientific relations, free election and collegiality of its governing authority. The Academy brings together full members, corresponding members, and its foreign members, all scientists of its institutions, organizes and conducts fundamental and applied scientific research in the most important issues of natural, technical, social, and humanitarian sciences.

Administration

The highest body of self-government of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine is its General Assembly (, Zahalni zbory) that consists of full members (academicians) and corresponding members. Except for issues relating to election of full members, corresponding members and foreign members of the Academy, at the General Assembly sessions take part with the right of decisive vote scientists who were delegated by work collective of the Academy's scientific institutions and with the right of advisory vote foreign members, directors of the Academy's scientific institutions, and representatives of scientific community.

In period between the General Assembly sessions the Academy's activities are being administered (supervised) by the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Presidium which is elected by General Assembly on the term of 5 years. The NASU Presidium that was lastly elected in April 2015 consists of 32 persons including president, 5 vice-presidents, Chief Scientific Secretary, 14 department secretaries-academicians, 11 other members. In the Presidium's sessions take part with the right of advisory vote 5 acting Presidium members and 14 NASU Presidium advisers. The presidium meets in the former building of Countess Levashova that the Academy owns since its establishment in 1918. The presidium also directs operations of the Academy's publishing institutions as well as some selected science and other institutions among which are own exposition center, Grand Conference Hall, etc.

In the NASU function 3 sections with 14 departments within them. There also are 6 regional science centers in various regions of the country, which have dual subordination also to the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. The basic elements of the NASU's structure are scientific research institutes and other scientific institutions such as observatories, botanic gardens, arboreta, nature preserves, libraries, museums, other. In 2006 the Academy accounted for 43,613 employees including 16,813 researchers; among them, 2,493 with degree of Doctor of Sciences and 7,996 with degree of Candidate of Sciences.

The NASU is responsible for over 90% of all discoveries made in Ukraine, including the transmutation of lithium into helium, the production of heavy water, and the development of a 3-D radar that operates in the decimeter range.

Sections

  • Section of Physical-Technical and Mathematical Sciences
  • Department of Mathematics
  • Department of Computer Science
  • Department of Mechanics
  • Department of Physics and Astronomy
  • Department of Earth Sciences
  • Department of Physical and Technical Problems of Materials Science
  • Department of Physical and Technical Problems of Power Engineering
  • Department of Nuclear Physics and Power Engineering
  • Section of Chemical and Biological Sciences
  • Department of Chemistry
  • Department of Biochemistry, Physiology and Molecular Biology
  • Department of General Biology
  • Section of Social Sciences and Humanities
  • Department of Economics
  • Department of History, Philosophy and Law
  • Department of Literature, Language and Art Studies

Regional centers

Regional science centers (SCs) are:

  • Donetsk SC (center in Donetsk, temporarily relocated to Kramatorsk) - 9 research institutes;
  • Western SC (Lviv) - 18 institutes;
  • Southern SC (Odesa) - 7 institutes;
  • North-East SC (Kharkiv) led by Volodymyr Semynozhenko since 25.11.1992 - 17 institutes;
  • Dnieper SC (Dnipro) - 7 institutes;
  • Crimea SC (Simferopol) - 8 institutes (statute activities and financing is suspended since 2014).

The most of institutions of the Academy (212) are placed in the city of Kyiv, following by Kharkiv (39) and Lviv (27). The Academy is represented at least by one institution in most of the oblasts in Ukraine, except Volyn, Rivne, Ternopil, Khmelnytsky, Vinnytsia, and Kirovohrad.

Scientific institutions of the NASU

Libraries

There are 2 national libraries affiliated with the NASU:

  • The V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine with 10 million books, manuscripts
  • The V. Stefanyk National Library in Lviv.

Institutes

A. Pidhornyi Institute of Mechanical Engineering Problems in Kharkiv

Parks and nature reserves

The department of General Biology includes a number of parks and nature reserves.

  • Trostianets dendro-park
  • Donetsk Botanic Garden
  • Danube Biosphere Preserve
  • Karadah Nature Preserve
  • Kryvyi Rih Botanic Garden
  • Luhansk Nature Preserve
  • M.M. Gryshko National Botanical Garden
  • Oleksandriya dendro-park
  • Sofiyivka dendro-park
  • Ukrainian Steppe Nature Preserve
  • Black Sea Biosphere Reserve

Research centers and funds

Publishers

Until 2024, the NASU had two publishing houses:

  • Naukova Dumka «Наукова думка» (roughly "Scientific Thought") from 1922 to 2024.
  • Akademperiodyka «Академперіодика» (roughly "Academic Periodical"), since 2001, which has taken over all activities of Naukova Dumka in 2024.

The NASU has made major contributions to most of the major fields of science.

Former (disbanded) institutions

  • Commission in research of the Soviet Law (1927–1934)
  • Cabinet of the Soviet Construction and Law (1930–1934)
  • Commission in research of the History of Western-Russian and Ukrainian Law (1919–1934)
  • Commission about the History of Common Law (1918–1934)
  • Demographic Institute (1918–1938)

Awards

Bogoliubov Prize

The Bogoliubov Prize is an award offered by the National Academy for scientists with outstanding contribution to theoretical physics and applied mathematics. The award is issued in the memory of theoretical physicist and mathematician Nikolay Bogoliubov. The award was founded in 1992.

Laureates

  • 2004 — Anton Naumovets
  • 2002 — Leonid A. Pastur, for a cycle of works on research of the theory of a field and the theory of the disorder systems
  • 2002 — Sergiy Peletminsky, for the set of works "Field theory and the theory of disordered systems".
  • 1998 — A. V. Pogorelov, for a series of "Creation and support of advanced mathematical methods for solving problems in physics and mathematics"
  • 2005 Viktor Skopenko and Nikolai Plate
  • 2006 Yurii Mitropolskiy and Yury Osipov
  • 2007 Myroslav Popovych and Georges Nivat
  • 2008 Viktor Baryakhtar and Vladimir Kadyshevsky
  • 2009 Volodymyr Marchenko and Jean Bourgain
  • 2010 Mikhail Lisitsa and Manuel Cardona
  • 2011 Borys Oliynyk and Blaže Ristovski
  • 2012 Mykola Bahrov and Nikolai Laverov
  • 2013 Oleksandr Huz and Herbert Mang
  • 2014 Vadym Loktev and Alexei Abrikosov
  • 2015 Anthony Turner and Ganna V. Elska
  • 2016 Valeriy Skorokhod and Giorgi Tavadze
  • 2017 Volodymyr Morgun and George Fedak
  • 2018 Oleksiy Onyschenko and Michael Moser
  • 2019 Lukyan Anatychuk and Juri Grin
  • 2020 Anton Naumovets and Anton Zeilinger
  • 2021
  • 2022 Volodymyr Horbulin and Janusz Kacprzyk
  • 2023 Aaron Ciechanover and Serhiy Komisarenko

See also

  • National Herbarium of Ukraine
  • Ukrainian Science Society (1907–1921), a predecessor of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
  • Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
  • Members of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

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State-funded research institutions

  • Institute for Problems of Cryobiology and Cryomedicine
  • National Academy of Arts of Ukraine
  • National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine
  • National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine
  • National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine
  • National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine
  • Minor Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Public-funded research institutions

  • Academy of Mining Sciences of Ukraine
  • Academy of Economic Sciences of Ukraine
  • Academy of Higher Education of Ukraine
  • Shevchenko Scientific Society
  • Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences of Canada (Winnipeg)
  • Ukrainian Academy of Art and Sciences in the US (New York)

University

Kyiv Academic University (KAU) is a pilot research university in Ukraine, established by a government decree on December 14, 2016. It is a state scientific institution under the dual authority of the National Academy and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.

KAU has 10 departments, 3 research centers (Data Science Research Center, Center for Quantum Technologies, Center for Life Sciences) and Innovation Center. Among its departments are:

  1. Department of Applied Physics and Material Science (based at the Paton Institute of Electric Welding)
  2. Department of Applied Physics and Nanoscale Systems (based at the Kurdyumov Institute of Metal Physics)
  3. Department of Fundamental Problems of General and Applied Physics (based at the Institute of Physics)
  4. Department of Biomedicine and Neuroscience  (based at the Kyiv Academic University);
  5. Department of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (based at the Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics)
  6. Department of Mathematics (based at the NASU Institute of Mathematics)
  7. Department of Theoretical Cybernetics and Optimal Control Methods (based at the Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics)
  8. Department Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (based at the NASU Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics)

KAU's main activities include:

  • Conducting scientific research in cutting-edge areas with student involvement
  • Educating students with top NAS scientists experienced in international collaboration
  • Promoting innovation
  • Developing continuous scientific education and popularizing science

Notes

References

  • Brief Annual Report of NASU for 2006
  • Shpak, A.P., Yurkova, O.V. National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (НАЦІОНАЛЬНА АКАДЕМІЯ НАУК УКРАЇНИ). Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine. 2010
  • National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The Statute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Статут Національної академії наук України). Verkhovna Rada website. Registered 11 June 2002.