Dear Borys Yevhenovych! Dear participants and guests!
Today much is said about the colorful life of Viktor Ivanovych Trefilov (1930 - 2001) - Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, winner of Lenin and State Prizes of the USSR, PhD, Honorary Doctor of KPI, Director of the Institute of Materials in 1973 - 2001 years.
We would like to pay tribute to Victor Ivanovych as one of the greatest students of the Kyiv Polytechnic.
Viktor is a honors graduate of the 1952 metallurgical faculty and graduate of the department KPI metallurgy, heat treatment and metal physics (specialty "Physical metallurgy and heat treatment of steel").
During the training and active cooperation with the Alma-Mater Kyiv Polytechnic became family home for Viktor Ivanovych.
Here is classroom and laboratory, in which Viktor Ivanovych studied, here is one of the richest in Europe library fund, future scientist who gave life and deep scientific knowledge, here is a unique scientific and educational environment that nurtured him as a great multi-faceted personality.
This work colleagues and pupils of Victor Ivanovych are those who consider themselves followers of his scientific and philosophical ideas.
During the tenure as Deputy Director of the Institute of Metal Physics of NAS of Ukraine for Science and Director of the Institute of Materials Science, Academician V.I. Trefilov actively maintained ties with Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.
Viktor Ivanovych contributed to the formation in "High temperature materials and powder metallurgy", on his initiative and with his direct participation of the common order of the KPI and IPM in 1988 at the Institute of Materials was organized and provided jobs metallurgy branch of the department.
Viktor Trefilov was one of the founders of joint in 1999 - Engineering Physics Department and Institute of Materials is teaching and research laboratory diffusion in thin layers, now headed by Academician Valery Volodymyrovych Skorokhod and Professor of KPI Sergii Ivanovych Sydorenko.
Laboratory is active, plays an important role in maintaining the high scientific level of teaching materials in the KPI.
In recent years, academic V.Trefilov actively contributed to the creation of educational and scientific association based on KPI and IPMS NAS of Ukraine with 26 parts of IPM and 4 chairs Engineering Faculty of Physics.
All this allowed us to use the most modern laboratory facilities of the National Academy of Sciences, involved in the learning process and collaborative research work leading scientists of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NAS of Ukraine Valeriy Skorokhod and Yuri Naiditsch, members of the NAS of Ukraine Sergiy Firstov, Anatoliy Kostornov, Julia Milman, Maya Hlynchuk, George Gnesinyh, Olexander Kurdyumov, Leonid Pozniak and many others).
Over the years these traditions have been preserved, which formed the grounds for the development of Materials section "Branch Target Master Training of KPI for the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine".
Extremely high performance and dedication, people skills and willingness help anyone won him the love and respect of both faculty and students of the Kyiv Polytechnic and a huge number of people in Ukraine, which had a good fortune to know this remarkable man.
To perpetuate the memory of Academician Viktor Ivanovych Trefilov in 2001, the Academic Council of KPI established a scholarship named after V.Trefilov grade students of engineering and physics department.
V.Trefilov paid much attention to the creative growth of promising young scientists. In this regard, thinking about commemorating of V.Trefilov would like to make the following proposal: jointly (KPI and the Institute of Materials) establish for young scientists, post-graduate scholarship named after V.Trefilov and coincide its annual appointment to give birth Viktor Ivanovych - August 6.
Among other measures to honor the memory of academician V.Trefilov, in our view, would be the establishment of cooperation with the Institute of Materials contemporary teaching and research profile and Materials Research Laboratory of Solid State Physics named after V.Trefilov.
Let with everyone who present in this room, to bow as a sign of our memory of the great scientist Viktor Ivanovych Trefilov and express confidence that the case of Viktor Ivanovych Trefilov be honorably continue the younger generation of students, scholars and faculty of the Kyiv Polytechnic!
Thank you!