Leon Borowski was born in 1884 in Humany in the Podillia of the family doctor. High School graduated there in 1903 in the Kiev Polytechnic Institute in 1913 received the bachelor's Civil Engineering Department.
Witold Kazimierz Vezheyskyy (Witold Kazimierz Wierzejski) was born in 1882 in the village Derebchyn (Yampolsky district) in the Podillia, the son of a sugar factory worker. He studied at the school in Vinnytsia. In 1900 he became a student of mechanical department of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.
Commemoration meeting devoted to 80th anniversary of outstanding thermophysical instrument engineering scientist, founder of Ukrainian heat measurement school Oleg Arkadiyovych Gerashchenko was held on September 27th in House of Scientists. It was arranged by the Institute of Physics of the NAS of Ukraine and State Polytechnic museum of NTUU “KPI”.
Bencion Moyseyovich Vul was born on May, 22, 1903 in Bila Tserkva, Kyiv’s region in a blacksmith’s family.
Mykola Yuliyovych Vagner was born on 11 (24) January 1893 in Saint Petersburg in the family of well-known zoologist Yuliy M. Vagner. In 1898, after the moving to Kyiv Yuliy M. Vagner started working in Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.
