Biography
Vladimir Marchenko was born in Kharkov in 1922. He defended his PhD thesis in 1948 under the supervision of Naum Landkof, and in 1951 he defended his DSc thesis. He worked in Kharkov University until 1961. For 4 decades, he headed the Mathematical Physics Department at the Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
He was awarded the Lenin Prize in 1962, the N. N. Krylov Prize in 1980, the State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR in 1989, and the N. N. Bogolyubov prize in 1996. Since 1969 he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, since 1987 of the Russian Academy of Sciences and since 2001 of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.
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