Bohdan Blazhkevych

Bohdan Blazhkevych (Богдан Іванович Блажкевич; 28 August 1912 – 10 October 1986) was a Ukrainian scientist in the field of theoretical electrical engineering, co-founder of the scientific field of physicometry. Doctor of Technical Sciences (1965), Professor (1965). Honored Worker of Science of the Ukrainian SSR (1976).

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 (1939). From then on, he worked at his alma mater as a lecturer, senior lecturer (1944), docent (1953), and professor (1965) at the Department of Theoretical Foundations of Electrical Engineering.

Later, he worked in the management of the Lviv Electricity Networks Trust (1941–1944); as a senior researcher (from 1954, part-time), head of the Department of Electrical Circuit Theory (1959–1984) and senior researcher-consultant (1984–1986) at the Karpenko Physico-Mechanical Institute in Lviv.

He died on 10 October 1986 in Lviv, buried on field 34 of the Lychakiv Cemetery.

Family
Son of Ivanna Blazhkevych, father of Khrystyna Chaplin.

Achievements
Author of more than 200 scientific papers, 6 monographs, 50 copyright certificates.

Research interests: problems of electrical circuit analysis, space instrumentation in Ukraine.