Roald Hoffmann: "Ukraine – a land of contentment of my heart"

Famous American scientist, Nobel laureate in chemistry Roald Hoffman (birth name – Roald Safran) was born on 18 July 1937 in the city­ Zolochiv in Lviv, then the territory of Poland, into a Jewish family of an engineer, a graduate of Lviv Polytechnic Hillel Safran and teacher Clara Rosen.­­­­­ It

Indefatigable Burattino. Part III

During his financial epic Burattino finally linked his life with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In 1658 he received indiginate, and in 1660 he married the hereditary nobleman, the daughter of the Dartovsky governor Zygmunt Opatsky Teresa Bronislav, who was younger than him in twenty three years

Irrepressible Burattino. Part II

The output did not seem to have happened. And yet, he found the quick mind with Burattino. The reform he has proposed made his name widely known in The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Even more - he wrote in the history of the monetary circulation of several countries, whose territory then belonged to the territories of this state, and their neighbors.

Indefatigable Buratino. І part

This year marks the 400th anniversary of the birth of Tito Livio Buratino. Historians have not yet come to an unanimous opinion on who he was - an outstanding scientist and inventor or a clever adventurer.

Books about lighthouses

Four books that will be of interest to historians of technology, came at the end of last year, the Fund of rare and valuable books the Scientific and technical library. G. I. Denisenko of our the University.

Miracles in life and fairy tales

They say miracles happen only in fairy tales. But life sometimes throws up such scenes that can be more fantastic than fairy tales. Once in Zakarpattya Region ...

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