Bohdan Blazhkevych

Bohdan Blazhkevych was a Ukrainian scientist in the field of theoretical electrical engineering, co-founder of the scientific field of physicometry. Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor. Honored Worker of Science of the Ukrainian SSR.

Biography

Bohdan Blazhkevych was born on 28 August 1912 in Subotiv, now part of the Halych urban hromada in Ivano-Frankivsk Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine.
Studied at the Ternopil Gymnasium, graduated from the Mechanical Faculty of the Lviv Polytechnic Institute. From then on, he worked at his alma mater as a lecturer, senior lecturer, docent, and professor at the Department of Theoretical Foundations of Electrical Engineering.
Later, he worked in the management of the Lviv Electricity Networks Trust ; as a senior researcher, head of the Department of Electrical Circuit Theory and senior researcher-consultant at the Karpenko Physico-Mechanical Institute in Lviv.
He died on 10 October 1986 in Lviv, buried on field 34 of the Lychakiv Cemetery.

Son of Ivanna Blazhkevych, father of Khrystyna Chaplin.

Author of more than 200 scientific papers, 6 monographs, 50 copyright certificates.
Research interests: problems of electrical circuit analysis, space instrumentation in Ukraine.