Oleksa Myron Bilaniuk

Background

Bilaniuk, Oleksa Myron Son of Petro and Maria (Kunkevytch) Bilaniuk. came to the United States, 1951, naturalized, 1957.

Education

Student, University Louvain, 1947-1951; Master of Science, University of Michigan, 1953; Master of Arts, University of Michigan, 1954; Doctor of Philosophy, University Michigan, 1957.

Career

Postdoctoral fellow, University of Michigan, 1957-1958; research associate, assistant professor, U. Rochester, 1958-1964; associate professor physics, Swarthmore College, 1964-1970; professor, Swarthmore College, 1970-1982; Swarthmore Centennial professor, Swarthmore College, since 1982. Visiting scientist Argentine Atomic Energy Commission, Buenos Aires, 1961-1962,Institut de Physique Nucléaire, Orsay, France, spring 1980, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Italy, spring 1984, U. Munich, Germany, fall 1988. Visiting professor, consultant Delhi U., summer 1966, Shivaji U., Kolhapur, India, summer 1969, Faculté des Sciences, Rabat, Morocco, spring1978, Kiev U. Ukraine, spring 1994, Institute Medical Radiology, Kharkiv, Ukraine, summer 1996.

Fulbright professor Lima, Peru, summer 1971, Kinshasa, Zaïre, fall 1975.

Achievements

• Oleksa Myron Bilaniuk has been listed as a noteworthy Physicist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member American Physical Society, National Academy Sciences Ukraine, Ukrainian Academy Arts and Sciences in the United States (president since 1998), Schevchenko Science Society in the United States, European Physical Society, Société Française de Physique, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.

Connections

Married Larissa T. Zubal, November 14, 1964. Children: Larissa, Laada.

Father:

Petro Bilaniuk

Mother:

Maria (Kunkevytch) Bilaniuk

Spouse:

Larissa T. Zubal

child:

Laada Bilaniuk

child:

Larissa Bilaniuk