People · Kyivans in history

Famous KyivansScientists and doctors

Princes and saints, poets and aviators, patrons and adventurers — people who were born, lived or worked in Kyiv. Biographies, addresses and places to visit.

56 people
11 categories
12 centuries (X–XXI c.)

Scientists and doctors

5 people

Borys PatonWelding scientist, Academy president1918–2020Kyiv-born son of Yevhen Paton who led the Electric Welding Institute for 67 years and Ukraine’s Academy of Sciences for 58; the first Hero of Ukraine.
Mykola AmosovHeart surgeon, writer1913–2002Surgeon who worked in Kyiv for 50 years: Ukraine’s first heart operations, heart-lung bypass and valves of his own design. Founder of the cardiac surgery institute that bears his name.
Volodymyr VernadskyNaturalist, first Academy president1863–1945Founder of geochemistry and the biosphere concept. In Kyiv in 1918 he created the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and the National Library that now bears his name.
Feofil YanovskyPhysician1860–1928Founder of the Kyiv school of internal medicine and of the city’s fight against tuberculosis, remembered as the “saintly doctor”. He lived at 13-B Yaroslaviv Val for 25 years.
Mykhailo MaksymovychFirst rector of Kyiv University1804–1873Botanist, historian and folklorist; first rector of Kyiv’s St Volodymyr University (1834–1835) and the first historian of ancient Kyiv.