Museum room acad. I. M Dmitrenko

Ihor Mykhailovych Dmytrenko was born on July 24, 1928 in Kharkiv. He was an outstanding physicist and academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. After working in aircraft repair shops during the war, he continued his education, graduating from school as an external student and becoming a student of the physical and technical faculty of the Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute. He was engaged in research in radioactive methods at the plant named after Malysheva. Then he worked in the department of low-temperature physics.

Dmytrenko headed the department of physical foundations of superconducting electronics at the Physical and Technical Institute of Low Temperatures of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR. He also served as the first deputy director for scientific work. Under his leadership, ten departments and laboratories were established to develop superconducting electronics, including Josephson tunnel contacts, thin film physics, ultrahigh-frequency properties of superconductors, low-temperature thermometers, bolometers, quantum microwave receivers and converters, magnetometers, and other devices.