5 Ukrainian scientists whose inventions have changed the world

Anatoly Malykhin

Anatoliy Malykhin, a Kharkiv scientist, invented a unique device called "Biobeam" for blood analysis. He
devoted his work to the introduction of the device for diagnostics according to the latest method. After
graduating from Kharkiv Medical College, in 1964 he entered two higher education institutions at the same
time - Kharkiv Medical Institute, majoring in Medical Affairs and Kharkiv University. VN Karazin at the
Faculty of Biology, majoring in Biochemistry. From 1972 to the present day he is an employee of the
Institute of Neurology, Psychiatry and Narcology of the National Medical Academy of Ukraine. In addition,
since 1991 he is the author of many scientific publications: more than 100 scientific works, monographs and
methodological recommendations, a number of patents. In 2000 - 2005 he defended his Ph.D. and Ph.D.
Peter Bobonich

A scientist from Uzhgorod suggested a glucose meter in the form of a wristwatch, which allows a diabetic
patient to quickly measure blood glucose levels. Worked at the Department of Solid State Electronics of the
Physical Faculty of Uzhgorod National University. Since 1976, he has patented over 25 medical and
physico-technical devices, even though he was not a professional physician. He began to develop the idea of
a glucose detector when his wife became ill with diabetes in 2003.
Fedor Pirotsky

The Ukrainian scientist who invented the tram - yes, the one that is now a common transport for most cities
in Europe. At the time when Fyodor Pirotsky was born, no one could ever dream of this type of transport -
and a future designer was born in the family of military doctors, being a descendant of the Cossacks.
He graduated from the Constantine Cadet Corps and St. Michael's Military Artillery Academy (1866) and
served in the artillery service in Kyiv. In 1871 he returned from St. Petersburg and began working in the
department of technical reports and estimates of the General Artillery Division, where he discovered the
remarkable abilities of the inventor. 1874 - It was then that Pirotsky developed a design for an AC machine
and an electric wire transmission system fixed with telegraph insulators on wooden poles.
In 1875, an inventor on the Sestroretsk Railroad started wagons on electric draft - and laid the first electrified
line.
In Berlin, the first tram built under the scheme of a Ukrainian has already been moved in a year. Pirotsky
also co-authored a project for a centralized underground city electric grid and proposed new designs for
metallurgical, domestic and baking furnaces.
Sergey Korolev

He is a well-known designer of rocket and space technology and one of the people through whom humanity
was able to escape into space. Despite a difficult fate and repression, he still managed to save time - and
since 1958 he headed the rocket program of the then communist superpower. Under his leadership, the first
intercontinental ballistic missile was launched, the first artificial satellite of the Earth, the first human flight
into space and the launch of man into outer space. The asteroid named 1855 Kings was named after him.
Natalia Sergivna, Korolev's daughter said that the word "Ukraine" was spoken in their family with trembling
love:
He loved her very much. I loved Ukrainian songs, Ukrainian language. That's true. "I look at the sky", "Roars
and moans the Dnieper wide" - my father's favorite songs
When Korolev launched a rocket with the first Ukrainian cosmonaut Pavel Popovich, he sang from the space
for his chief designer his favorite song, "I look to heaven ...".
Igor Sikorsky

The aircraft designer who migrated abroad is also the inventor of helicopters. Talented people, expert in his
field, he was the first in the world to build a four-engine aircraft "Russian Knight" (1913), a heavy four-
engine bomber and passenger plane "Ilya Muromets" (1914), transatlantic seaplane (1934), serial 1942).
He emigrated to the United States in 1918, where he founded Sikorsky Aircraft in 1923. Author of Ilya
Muromets Giant Aircraft, Sikorsky S-29-A. Designer of the first amphibious aircraft in the United States. In
1931 he presented a draft aircraft with two propellers - horizontal on the roof and vertical on the tail. In
September 1939, the testing of the helicopter VS-300 began. On May 13, 1940, the designer first lifted his
car in free flight. The US Army became interested in this invention and ordered a few helicopters. For over
half a century, all US presidents have used Sikorsky helicopters.