Georgiy De Metz (08.05.1861 - 1947) - physicist and methodologist, the authority in the field of radioactivity, the compiler of the first in Ukraine Course teaching of physics in schools.
A distinguished fashion manager and the co-owner of Maas Markets Ltd, Maurizio Askero, visited Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. He came to discuss installing a memorial plaque to the famous physicist George De Metz.
During the first post-revolutionary years and during the Civil War, despite the political changes in Ukraine, the KPI remained higher school of the old type.
Everyone knows the statements of the head of the first examination committee KPI - world-renowned scientist D.I. Mendeleev about the high level of training of graduates of the institute. These words were written in a memorandum to the Minister of Finance S.Y. Witte.
The first stage of the reconstruction of the Great Physical Auditorium is finished. We know that when creating the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, its founders tried to create the most modern educational institution at the time.