Volodymyr Semenovych Korolyuk ( uk, Володимир Семенович Королюк, 19 August 1925 – 4 April 2020) was a

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and Ukrainian mathematician who made significant contributions to

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and its applications, academician of the

National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU; uk, Національна академія наук України, ''Natsional’na akademiya nauk Ukrayiny'', abbr: NAN Ukraine) is a self-governing state-funded organization in Ukraine th ...

(1976). Korolyuk was born in

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in August 1925. Between 1949 and 2005 Volodymyr Korolyuk published over 300 papers and 22 monographs. He died in Kyiv in April 2020 at the age of 94.Volodymyr Semenovych Korolyuk death notice
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Awards and honors

Volodymyr Korolyuk has been awarded a number of scientific prizes. * Krylov Prize of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 1976 * State Prize of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, 1978 * Glushkov Prize of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 1988 * Bogolyubov Prize of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 1995 * Ostrogradsky Medal, 2002 * State Prize of Ukraine, 2003

References

at the website of the Kyiv Mathematical Society (in Ukrainian) * Yu. A. Mitropolskiy, A. V. Skorokhod, D. V. Gusak, ''Vladimir Semenovich Korolyuk (in honor of 60th anniversary)'', Ukrainian Math. Journal, 37, No 4, 1985, pp 488–489 (in Russian) 1925 births 2020 deaths 20th-century Ukrainian mathematicians Scientists from Kyiv Laureates of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology {{Ukraine-scientist-stub