Aleksander Omelyanchuk

Aleksander Nikolaevich Omelyanchuk (Ukrainian: Омельянчук Олександр Миколайович; 27 July 1947 – 10 February 2022) was a Hungarian-born Ukrainian physicist and academic.

Aleksander Omelyanchuk
Омельянчук Миколайович
Omelyanchuk in 2020
Born
Aleksander Nikolaevich Omelyanchuk

27 July 1947 (1947-07-27)
Budapest, Hungary
Died5 February 2022 (2022-02-06) (aged 74)
Kharkiv, Ukraine
Other namesOleksandr Mykolayovych Omelyanchuk, Aleksander N. Omelyanchuk, A. N. Omelyanchuk
OccupationPhysicist

Life and career

Born in Budapest, Omelyanchuk graduated from the National University of Kharkiv in 1970, and from 1972 he worked as a researcher at the Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering.[1] He authored over 200 scientific papers and his researches mainly focused in the fields of spectroscopy, mesoscopic physics, quantum engineering and particularly superconductivity.[1]

During his life Omelyanchuk was the recipient of several awards and honors, including the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology and the Verkin award of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine for his work Theory and experimental implementation of Josephson qubits for quantum computers.[1] He was the head of the Superconducting and Mesoscopic Structures and Devices department of the Verkin Institute for over 16 years.[1]

Omelyanchuk died on 10 February 2022, at the age of 74.[1]

References
  1. "З глибоким сумом сповіщаємо, що 10 лютого ц.р. на 75 році пішов із життя відомий вчений у галузі надпровідності та мікроконтактних явищ, головний науковий співробітник Фізико-технічного інституту низьких температур ім.Б.І.Вєркіна член-кореспондент НАН України Олександр Миколайович ОМЕЛЬЯНЧУК". National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Government of Ukraine. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
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