NASU Institute of Electrodynamics (IED) () is a Ukraine leading science institution in field of electrical engineering,
thermal power (
heat energy), and research of
electrodynamics
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located in
Kyiv
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,
Ukraine
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as a part of the
Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. It is well known for the prominent achievements in the field of
computer science
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and
electronics
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, made in early 1950s by
Sergei Alekseyevich Lebedev.
The institute was established in 1947 on the basis of electrical engineering department of the NASU Energy Institute as the NASU Institute of Electrical Engineering.
In 1963 it was renamed as the NASU Institute of Electrodynamics.
Notable achievements
*
MESM, an abbreviation for small electronic calculating system
Directors
* 1947 — 1952
Sergei Lebedev
* 1952 — 1959
Anatoliy Nesterenko
* 1959 — 1973
Oleksandr Milyakh
* 1973 — 2007
Anatoliy Shydlovskyi
* 2007 —
Oleksandr Kyrylenko
External links
*
Official website*
IED NASU National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
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Research institutes in Kyiv
Computing in the Soviet Union
Research institutes in the Soviet Union
Institutes of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Computer science institutes in Ukraine
Energy research institutes