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Sabina and I got married in Uzhgorod. After graduation from the institute
we came to live in Kiev. I was sent to work at the plant of cemented-
carbide tools. I came there in 1959. There were 30 workers in the
laboratory; I was the 29th. I was ordered to organize a laboratory; later,
this department grew into the Institute of Hard Alloys, which became famous
in the USSR and all over the world. Its director, Valentin Nikolayevich
Bakul, trusted me and let me advance there. In 1968, I defended my Ph.D.
thesis, and in 1986, my doctoral theses. But then I again felt that I was
Jewish. The Higher Certifying Commission did not endorse my theses; they
checked our institute and said that too many Jews held leading positions.
So, I had to wait for several years, until in early 1990s when the attitude
to the Jews changed, and my theses were endorsed.
we came to live in Kiev. I was sent to work at the plant of cemented-
carbide tools. I came there in 1959. There were 30 workers in the
laboratory; I was the 29th. I was ordered to organize a laboratory; later,
this department grew into the Institute of Hard Alloys, which became famous
in the USSR and all over the world. Its director, Valentin Nikolayevich
Bakul, trusted me and let me advance there. In 1968, I defended my Ph.D.
thesis, and in 1986, my doctoral theses. But then I again felt that I was
Jewish. The Higher Certifying Commission did not endorse my theses; they
checked our institute and said that too many Jews held leading positions.
So, I had to wait for several years, until in early 1990s when the attitude
to the Jews changed, and my theses were endorsed.
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Location
Kiev
Ukraine
Interview
matvey loshak