Oleksandr Zakharovych Holyk 16 April 1906 – 5 March 1991

Physicist, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics (from 1951), founder and Head of the Department of Molecular Physics (1952-1978), Dean of the Faculty of Physics (1958-1962), Rector of the Taras Shevchenko State University of Kyiv (1951-1955), Distinguished Figure in Science of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (from 1966)