First ever X-ray in the US was performed on the invention of Ukrainian scientist...
“On January 19, 1896, young Eddie McCarthy of Hanover fell while skating on the Connecticut River and fractured his left wrist”....
Gravitational trajectory adopted by Apollo-11 program to reach the Moon is named after a...
On the eve of the Artemis II Mission to the Moon, it is worth to recall an interesting detail of the...
Ukrainian boy was catching sweets from American planes during the Berlin Airlift. Inspired by...
One of the engineers laying the foundation of the Apollo systems in 1962 was Michael Yarymovych, born Mikhail Yarymovych in pre-WWII...
Ukrainian who discovered X-rays but didn’t receive credit for it: Ivan Puluj
As Noble Prize's official webpage describes it: "On the evening of 8 November 1895, Röntgen was in his laboratory studying how...
Ivan Puluj and long hair of one of his female students
One of Puluj's students, Katherine Stozitska, after asking permission from her parents, cut her very long hair that was almost touching...
Ukrainian who played the most crucial role in creating the first US atomic bomb:...
Atomic Heritage Foundation has the following entry: "George Kistiakowsky (1900-1982) was a Ukrainian-American physical chemist.He joined the Manhattan Project in late...
Kistiakowsky & Gordian Knot of Los Alamos’ Ski Slope
Working against the clock to build weapons that might end a long and bloody war strained life at Los Alamos but...
Kistiakowsky, Truman, Stalin, dental drill, 10-dollar bet: The Trinity Test
On April 11, 1945, Oppenheimer sent Groves the news that Kistiakowsky had managed to produce implosive compressions so perfectly symmetrical that...
Elbe Day iconic photo: American Robertson and Ukrainian Silvashko
April 25, 1945, the day American troops and the troops of the First Ukrainian Front met at the Elbe River, near...
Katheryn ‘Lagertha’ Winnick in Kyiv, May 2023
The famous The Vikings series actress Katheryn Winnick visited Kyiv and took a picture with Ukrainian flag in front of St....
