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Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology

Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology is a physics topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology rather than just read about it. In short: The National Science Center Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology (KIPT) (Ukrainian: Національний науковий центр «Харківський фізико-технічний інститут»), formerly the Ukrainian Physics and Technology Institute (UPTI) is the oldest and largest physical science research centre in Ukraine. Today it is known as a science center as it consists of several institutes that are part of the Kharkiv Institute of Physics…

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The National Science Center Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology (KIPT) (Ukrainian: Національний науковий центр «Харківський фізико-технічний інститут»), formerly the Ukrainian Physics and Technology Institute (UPTI) is the oldest and largest physical science research centre in Ukraine. Today it is known as a science center as it consists of several institutes that are part of the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology science complex.

History

The institute was founded on 30 October 1928, by the Government of Soviet Ukraine on an initiative of Abram Ioffe on the northern outskirts of Kharkiv (in khutir Piatykhatky) as the Ukrainian Institute of Physics and Technology for the purpose of research on nuclear physics and condensed matter physics. From the moment of its creation, the institute was run by the People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry. On 10 October 1932 the first experiments in nuclear fission in the Soviet Union were conducted here. The Soviet nuclear physicists Anton Valter, Georgiy Latyshev, Cyril Sinelnikov, and Aleksandr Leipunskii used a lithium atom nucleus. Later the Ukrainian Institute of Physics and Technology was able to obtain liquid hydrogen and helium. They also constructed the first triple coordinate radar station, and the institute became a pioneer of the Soviet high vacuum engineering which was developed into an industrial vacuum metallurgy. During Stalin's Great Terror in 1938, the institute suffered the so-called UPTI Affair: three leading physicists of the Kharkiv Institute (Lev Landau, Yuri Rumer and Moisey Korets) were arrested by the Soviet secret police. The Ukrainian Institute of Physics and Technology was the "Laboratory no. 1" for nuclear physics, and was responsible for the first conceptual development of a nuclear bomb in the USSR. It was damaged by shelling during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, resulting in heavy damage to the Neutron Source nuclear facility. It is guarded by the 4th State Objects Protection Regiment.

Directors 1929–1933: Ivan Obreimov 1933–1934: Aleksandr Leipunskii 1934–1936: Semyon Davidovich 1936–1938: Aleksandr Leipunskii 1938–1941: Aleksandr Shpetny 1944–1965: Cyril Sinelnikov 1965–1980: Victor Ivanov 1980–1996: Viktor Zelensky 1996–2004: Vladimir Lapshin 2004–2017: Ivan Neklyudov 2017–2024: Nikolay Shulga

Important institutes Science and education institutions in Pyatykhatky.

Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology The Lev Shubnikov Low Temperature Laboratory at the Ukrainian Institute of Physics and Technology was founded in 1931. Lev Shubnikov was a head of the cryogenic laboratory at the Ukrainian Physics and Technology Institute in 1931–1937. In 1935, Rjabinin, Schubnikow experimentally discovered the Type-II superconductors at the cryogenic laboratory at the institute. Institute of condensed matter physics, materials studies and technology Plasma physics institute, Institute of high energy and nuclear physics Institute of plasma electronics and new methods of acceleration Akhiezer Institute of theoretical physics

Other institutes Kharkiv University faculty of physics and technology, located nearby.

Notable alumni Aleksander Akhiezer Naum Akhiezer Semion Braude Dmitri Ivanenko Fritz Houtermans Arnold Kosevich Eduard Kuraev Igor Kurchatov Lev Landau Oleg Lavrentiev Aleksandr Leipunskii Ilya Lifshitz Evgeny Lifshitz Boris Podolsky Isaak Pomeranchuk Antonina Prikhot'ko Lev Shubnikov Cyril Sinelnikov László Tisza

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Applications of Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology

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In the classroom: Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Institutes of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology, Kyivskyi District, Kharkiv, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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