Ivan Vakarchuk
| Ivan Oleksandrovych Vakarchuk Іван Олександрович Вакарчук |
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6 March 1947 Brătuşeni, Edineț District Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Ukraine |
| Occupation | Scientist |
| Title | Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine, Honorary Doctor of Cracow Pedagogical Academy, Hero of Ukraine |
| Spouse(s) | Svitlana Oleksandrivna Vakarchuk |
| Children |
Svyatoslav Vakarchuk (1975) Oleg Vakarchuk (1980) |
| Awards | Hero of Ukraine |
Ivan Vakarchuk is a Ukrainian physicist. From 1990 to 2007 and again between 2010 and 2013 he was Rector of the Lviv University. In 2007-2010 he was Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine. Hero of Ukraine (awarded on 5 March 2007). Father of the leader of the rock band "Okean Elzy" Svyatoslav Vakarchuk.
Ivan Vakarchuk was born on March 6, 1947, in Stari Bratushany village, Edinetsky rayon, Moldavian SSR.
In 1965-1970 he studied at the Faculty of Physics at Lviv University named after Ivan Franko, in 1970-1973 he continued his studies at the postgraduate faculty of the Lviv Institute of theoretical physics, affiliated with USSR Academy of Sciences.
In 1974 he defended his PhD thesis "Application of the method of displacements and collective variables in the study of interacting Bose particles near absolute zero", and in 1980 his doctoral thesis "Microscopic theory of Bose liquid". Ivan Vakarchuk is representing the Lviv school of statistical physics founded by academician of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine I.Yukhnovsky.
In 1973-1984 Ivan Vakarchuk was working at the Lviv branch of the Institute for Theoretical Physics affiliated with USSR Academy of Sciences (now is the Institute of Condensed Matter Physics of National Academy of Sciences) as: junior research assistant, senior researcher, head of Quantum Statistics department.
Since 1984 he's been performing the duties of Professor, head of department of Theoretical Physics at Lviv State Ivan Franko University.
On November 13, 1990 Ivan Vakarchuk was elected the rector of Lviv State University named after Ivan Franko (current name - Lviv National University named after Ivan Franko) and worked till November 2007.
On December 18, 2007 he was appointed the Minister of education and science of Ukraine. Later he hold this office again between 2010 and 2013.
Ivan Vakarchuk has the rank of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor, PhD with the thesis: "Application of the method of displacements and collective variables in the study of interacting Bose particles near absolute zero" (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Academy of Sciences of USSR, 1974) doctoral thesis on "Microscopic theory of Bose liquid '(Institute for Theoretical Physics, USSR Academy of Sciences, 1980).
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