Lysin Borys Savelijovych. The life devoted to science. Dedicated to the 125th anniversary of the birth of the academician.
This year there is the 125th anniversary from the birthday of a prominent scientist, one of the founders of science and state-of-the-art technology in the field of building and building materials, academician of Ukrainian Academy of Science, Doctor of Engineering, and Professor Borys Savelijovych, whose whole activity was closely connected with KPI.
B.S. Lysin was born on the 23d of July in 1883 in Novohrad-Volynskyj. After studying in non-classical secondary school in Rivne he entered the KPI in 1903. In 1909 he graduated from the university with flying colours and was invited to the department of building materials and mineral materials, where he had been working as a teacher and an assistant of famous professor K.G. Dementjev. Fron the very first days of his work at the department B.S. Lysin took an active part in the scientific efforts, compiling of silicate chemical technology textbooks. In 1917 the KPI staff voted B.S. Lysin to the head of the university board lecturers. That year he was a delegate in the first All-Russian meeting referring to the reform of higher institutes of education in Petersburg, where he presented their works of KPI lecturers.
The whole his activity as a scientist and engineer was focused on the silicate industry development in Ukraine and the mineral material resources study with the purpose of its providing. Exactly this direction of scientific efforts has become the important reason for B.S. Lysin to start working in the Ukrainian Natural Resources Study Committee, headed by the prominent scientist, the first president of Ukrainian Academy of Science, academician V.I. Vernadskyj.
Teaching activity of this scientist was also productive: in 1921 B.S. Lysin founded the KPI silicate department and had been heading it for many years. Borys Savelijovych deemed it`s his main duty to prepare highly qualified specialists in the field of Chemistry and Silicate Technology. This department became the well-known center of vestibule training. On the base of it the domestic silicate school of
science was founded. Mineral material researches and the technology of its rational usage belonged to the basic directions of the school. The important teaching achievement of the professor was the diploma design organization. Several brickworks, cement, whiteware factories were built according to his projects. Those students, who took part in the designing, later became the directors of these factories and famous scientists.
From 1923 till 1928 he worked as a dean of Chemical department at the KPI.
It`s worth mentioning, that B.S. Lysin was the first who managed to systemize clay fields of Ukraine, particularly, kaolin, the highly qualified material for ceramics , porcelain and faience manufacturing. It was found out and specified the characteristics of fields of Ukraine from the geological, technological and economical point of view. These findings were very important. They confirmed the advantage of Ukrainian fields upon the foreign ones and the opportunity of wide export of these materials. This data hasn`t lost its topicality even till now.
B.S. Lysin conducted his researches simultaneously at the KPI and the Academy of Science. His contributions faced worldwide recognition and at the beginning of 1939 he was voted to the academician of the Academy of Science in the field “Chemistry and Silicate Technology”. In 1904 he became a director Academy of Science Mineral Resources Institute.
Scientific efforts of B.S. Lysin were interrupted by the Great Patriotic War. After the war there appeared new directions in science. Great amount of building works required manufacturing the building materials using the cheap local resources or the parts of ruined buildings. B.S. Lysin suggested the range of materials, widely used in practice.
Great attention was devoted to the modulation of determination methods of physico-mechanical properties and chemical composition of materials, intermediate products, final output of silicate manufacturers. Introducing of developed methods of material and technological process parameter control promote the improving of the productive quality, decreasing of fuel and material consumption.
In 1950 he organized a new range of researches of astringent and solutions using the new method and was the first to ascertain a relation between structure forming, hardening conditions and their physico-mechanical properties. A special attention was devoted to the usage of local material and industrial waste for astringent manufacturing.
Under the leadership of B.S. Lysin modern technologies of stone castings and other building materials (slabs, kerbs, cobbles and crushed stone etc.) requiring stone waste products and some rock formations were designed. The process of crystallization was studied in details. The certain recommendations were given to optimal castings crystallization temperatures of different compositions and deceleration of casts cooling with the purpose of preventing from their failure.
The great attention was devoted to such fundamental issues of the glass chemistry as determination of capabilities of oxides, the role of network-modifying ions in the forming of glass formation net, development of scientific basis of different types of glazes for ceramics. In 1905 B.S. Lysin along with the Candidate of science O.V. Cherepova was awarded USSR State Prize for the researches and introduction of effective tinless and lead-free enamels.
A true Ukrainian patriot, academician B.S. Lysin trained a whole pleiad of prominent scholars and experts in the field of technology of building materials and inorganic materials, including academicians, doctors and candidates of sciences, laureates of State Prize of the USSR and Ukraine, which had been working and work in companies and research institutions of Ukraine and abroad.
The research directions and tendencies created by B.S. Lysin, are being developed at our university even today, taking into account the latest achievements of silicate science and using modern equipment. Taking into consideration the outstanding contributions of BS Lysin to the development of silicate science and industry, the department provided the best students with scholarships by his name.
In honour of the commemoration of the 125th anniversary of the birth of academician B.S. Lysin Novohrad-Volynskyj city council named one of the main streets after famous indigene of this city. And on the 24th of August, the
Independence Day of Ukraine, at the local post office a solemn maturity of nominal envelope, released by Ukrpost, was held. Professor B.Yu. Kornilovych, grandson of the scientist, a head of the chemical ceramics and glass technology department , Corresponding Member of NAS of Ukraine, Doctor of Chemistry took part in these events.
Boris Savelijovych left a cherished memory in modern Ukrainian community. He was an example of a scientist and a person for whom the question of science prestige, honour and decency merged together.