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[Zmeselo]

The detail on Alexander Isak's shoes is highlighted

A small flag has received a lot of attention on social media.

For Alexander Isak, the choice is obvious.

– It's something I always carry with me, says the star.

Vendela Ögren

https://www.expressen.se/sport/fotboll/ ... -pekas-ut/

25 June 2026


Alexander Isak. Photo: Joel Marklund/ Bildbyrån

In a sea of ​​pink football boots, Alexander Isak https://www.expressen.se/tagg/person/alexander-isak/ stands out in his blue boots during the World Cup. Above all, it is a detail on the boots that has attracted attention.

ESPN Africa's post has received over eight million views. The zoom in shows the Eritrean flag at the top of the right boot.

That's where my roots come from, it means an incredible amount to me and my family. In the same way as Sweden, there's absolutely nothing that I compare with each other,

he says.

And continues:

It means everything to me, in the same way as Sweden means everything to me. That's why it feels important to me to have one of each flag.

Both of Isak's parents are from Eritrea. The 26-year-old feels the support from his parents' home country during the World Cup in North America.

A lot, actually all the time. It never dies. It's clear that the support from Sweden takes over because we are the ones playing in the World Cup. It's something I always have with me.

Sweden faces Japan in the decisive group stage match on Thursday, 01:00 Swedish time.

[Meleket]

ከምዡ’ዉን ኣሎ!

From Hollywood to NASA: The Ukrainian Contribution to America
22.06.2026 17:30
Ukrinform
How Ukrainian Emigrants Shaped American Science, Culture, and Technology
For centuries, the United States has been a land of opportunity for millions of immigrants from around the world, including many from Ukraine. Some fled war, pogroms, political repression, and poverty; others sought freedom and the chance to fulfill their ambitions. Scientists, artists, workers, and farmers—people from different generations and social backgrounds—crossed the Atlantic in search of a new life. They came from Galicia and Lemkivshchyna, from Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, and countless other corners of Ukraine.

In America, they founded companies, developed groundbreaking technologies, and left their mark on science, culture, aviation, space exploration, and even the very image of twentieth-century America. Some became household names and earned a permanent place in the nation's history. Their lives followed different paths, and they viewed their identities in different ways, but they all shared one thing: roots connected to Ukraine.

The stories of these immigrants are woven into the story of America itself. Let us recall just a few of the remarkable individuals who helped shape the nation.

Science and Technology

Stepan (Stephen) Timoshenko
Stepan (Stephen) Timoshenko (1878–1972) was one of the most influential engineers of the twentieth century and is widely regarded as the father of modern applied mechanics and strength-of-materials engineering. Born in the Chernihiv region to the family of a former serf, he studied in St. Petersburg and taught at leading technical institutions across the Russian Empire and Germany before emigrating to the United States in the aftermath of the revolutionary upheavals of the early twentieth century.

In the 1920s, Timoshenko worked as a research engineer in Philadelphia and at the Westinghouse Electric Company before returning to academia. He left an indelible mark on American engineering education, training generations of engineers at the University of Michigan and Stanford University. His textbooks on mechanics and elasticity theory, translated into 36 languages, became foundational works and remained standard references at universities around the world for decades.

Timoshenko sought to bridge the gap between mathematical theory and practical engineering challenges—a philosophy that made his work transformative for both American science and industry.

It is also worth noting the accomplishments of Timoshenko’s brothers. Serhii Timoshenko, an architect, served as Minister of Transportation of the Ukrainian People's Republic and took part in the Second Winter Campaign of 1921, while Volodymyr Timoshenko pursued a distinguished career in economics. Both eventually emigrated to the United States. Volodymyr taught economics at the University of Michigan and Stanford University, while Serhii worked in architecture and construction. Serhii’s son, Oleksandr Timoshenko, followed in his father's footsteps, contributing to such major projects as the Washington Metro and skyscrapers in New York City.

Igor Sikorsky
Igor Sikorsky (1889–1972) was one of the pioneers of modern aviation and the founder of the American helicopter industry. Born in Kyiv, he studied at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and, at the age of just 24, designed the legendary four-engine aircraft Ilya Muromets, one of the most advanced airplanes of its era. Following the Bolshevik Revolution, he emigrated to the United States, where he founded Sikorsky Aircraft in 1923.

It was Sikorsky who transformed the helicopter from an experimental curiosity into a practical means of transportation, revolutionizing military, rescue, and civilian aviation. His first major project in North America was the large twin-engine S-29 aircraft. Soon afterward, however, he turned his attention to lighter aviation, focusing primarily on amphibious aircraft and, from the late 1930s onward, on helicopter development.

In the United States, Sikorsky created 17 basic aircraft designs and 18 helicopter models. From the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower to the present day, U.S. presidents have flown in helicopters built by Sikorsky's company.

Sikorsky's legacy stands as a powerful example of how talent from Ukraine helped shape America's technological and industrial strength.

George (Georgy) Kistiakowsky
George (Georgy) Kistiakowsky (1900–1982) was an American scientist of Ukrainian origin, a key contributor to the U.S. atomic bomb program, and an influential adviser on science and national security. He was born in Boyarka into a distinguished Ukrainian intellectual family. His father, Bohdan Kistiakowsky, was a member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Following his arrest by the Bolsheviks, Kistiakowsky eventually emigrated to the United States, where he joined Harvard University in 1930.

During the Manhattan Project, Kistiakowsky headed the explosives division at Los Alamos Laboratory and made a crucial contribution to the development of America's nuclear weapons program. He was responsible for designing the so-called explosive lenses—an extraordinarily complex system that synchronized detonations with extreme precision. Without this innovation, the plutonium bomb would not have functioned. In effect, Kistiakowsky was one of the pivotal figures behind both the Trinity test and the Fat Man bomb.

From 1959 to 1961, he served as Science Adviser to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, advocating international control of nuclear testing and gradual nuclear disarmament. The author of more than 150 scientific publications, Kistiakowsky was among the Ukrainian-born scholars who left a profound mark on American science, national defense, and global security in the twentieth century.

At Harvard, he earned a reputation as an exceptionally charismatic teacher. Former students remembered him as a brilliant lecturer with a sharp wit and an almost theatrical style of presentation. His daughter, Vera Kistiakowsky, also became a distinguished scientist and made history as the first woman appointed professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Theodosius Dobzhansky
Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900–1975) was one of the most influential geneticists of the twentieth century and a founding figure of modern evolutionary biology. He played a central role in the development of the modern evolutionary synthesis through his landmark book Genetics and the Origin of Species (1937). Dobzhansky helped reconcile Charles Darwin's theory of evolution with Gregor Mendel's principles of genetics. Before his work, these two fields had largely evolved along separate tracks; Dobzhansky demonstrated that evolution operates through changes in the genetic composition of populations.

Born in Nemyriv to a Polish-Ukrainian family, Dobzhansky emigrated to the United States at the age of 27. He spent most of his career at Columbia University and Rockefeller University, where he trained a generation of leading geneticists. His pioneering research on Drosophila fruit flies became a cornerstone of experimental genetics and helped establish the foundations of population genetics.

Dobzhansky was among the scientists who helped transform the United States into a global center of genetic and biological research in the postwar era. He was also a vocal critic of racism and biological determinism. Following the Second World War, he actively challenged pseudoscientific theories of "superior" and "inferior" races, arguing that genetic diversity is a natural and essential feature of human development.

His famous statement, "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution," has become the unofficial motto of modern biology and remains one of the most widely quoted phrases in the life sciences.

Dobzhansky's daughter, Sophie Coe, also achieved distinction in academia, becoming a renowned anthropologist and historian of food in pre-Columbian America. Through both his scientific discoveries and his intellectual influence, Dobzhansky helped shape the course of modern biology and cemented America's position at the forefront of genetic research.

Lubomyr Romankiw
Lubomyr Romankiw (1931–2024) was a Ukrainian-Canadian-American engineer whose innovations helped lay the technological foundations of the modern computer revolution. Born in Zhovkva in the Lviv region, he emigrated to the West after the Second World War and later became a leading engineer at IBM, where he worked for more than half a century.

Romankiw's pioneering advances in magnetic recording and magnetic-head technology made modern hard disk drives—and ultimately personal computers—possible. For this reason, he is often regarded as one of the engineers without whom the age of Apple and the digital world as we know it could never have emerged.

Over the course of his career, Romankiw was awarded 67 patents and published more than 150 scientific papers. He also mentored generations of engineers at IBM, helping to shape the company's culture of innovation and technological excellence.

Despite his international recognition, Romankiw never forgot his roots. He often recalled that his family had been forced to flee Soviet occupation to escape political persecution. Throughout his life, he remained a proud advocate of his Ukrainian heritage and a powerful example of how immigrants from Ukraine helped strengthen America's scientific and technological leadership.

Michael Yarymovych
Michael Yarymovych (born 1933) is an American aerospace engineer of Ukrainian descent whose career has been closely intertwined with the U.S. space age. Born to parents from the Ternopil region who emigrated to the United States after the Second World War, Yarymovych devoted his life to turning ambitious space-age visions into engineering reality.

At a time when the United States and the Soviet Union were competing for supremacy in space, Yarymovych worked at NASA on the Apollo program and served as one of the systems engineers involved in the effort to land humans on the Moon. Colleagues jokingly referred to him as "the man who kept the Russians from reaching the Moon first."

He later became a scientific adviser to the U.S. Air Force, collaborated with NATO, and directed a number of international aerospace research initiatives. His contributions to aerodynamics and space technology helped shape a new generation of space programs, from orbital stations to long-term interplanetary missions.

For his contributions to American science and defense technology, Yarymovych received some of the highest civilian honors awarded by the U.S. Air Force. His career stands as yet another example of how people of Ukrainian origin helped advance America's scientific, technological, and aerospace achievements.

Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper
Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper (born 1963) is a NASA astronaut, U.S. Navy officer, and veteran of two Space Shuttle missions. Having logged two spaceflights and five spacewalks, she became one of the most prominent American astronauts of Ukrainian descent.

Stefanyshyn-Piper earned an engineering degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), served in the United States Navy, and was selected as a NASA astronaut in 1996. Her life story embodies the American dream. Her father, a native of the Lviv region, arrived in the United States as a displaced person after the Second World War, having been forced into labor in Nazi Germany as an Ostarbeiter. His daughter would go on to travel into space.

Raised within the vibrant Ukrainian-American community of Minneapolis, Stefanyshyn-Piper remained deeply connected to her heritage. She was an active member of Plast, spoke Ukrainian, and frequently emphasized her Ukrainian roots.

Her career stands as a powerful example of how the children of Ukrainian immigrants became participants in some of America's most ambitious scientific and space exploration endeavors. Through her achievements, Stefanyshyn-Piper helped carry the legacy of the Ukrainian diaspora into the space age.

Business and Technology

Volodymyr (William) Dzus
Volodymyr (William) Dzus (1895–1964) was a Ukrainian-American engineer, inventor, and industrialist best known as the founder of the Dzus Fastener Company. Born in the village of Chernykhivtsi in the Ternopil region, he emigrated to New York as a teenager, where he quickly demonstrated an exceptional talent for innovation and engineering.

In the 1930s, Dzus developed a revolutionary quarter-turn fastener for aircraft, later known as the Dzus fastener. The invention dramatically simplified the assembly and maintenance of aircraft panels and was eventually adopted by the automotive and military industries as well. During the Second World War, Dzus fasteners were installed on virtually every Allied military aircraft, with demand reaching millions of units annually.

His enterprises created hundreds of jobs in the United States, including opportunities for many Ukrainian immigrants seeking to establish themselves in their new homeland. Beyond his commercial success, Dzus was deeply committed to education, philanthropy, and the growth of the Ukrainian-American community.

He was a founder and the first president of the Ukrainian Institute of America, one of the most prominent Ukrainian cultural institutions in the United States. Throughout his life, he remained dedicated to preserving Ukrainian heritage while embracing the opportunities and freedoms offered by America.

Dzus often expressed a philosophy that reflected both his entrepreneurial spirit and personal values:

"Obstacles become insignificant when viewed from the heights of love for the work to which you have devoted your hands."

He cherished his homeland while deeply valuing the freedom he found in America, regarding it as one of the greatest blessings a person can possess. His life stands as a testament to how determination, ingenuity, and hard work enabled generations of immigrants to contribute to America's economic and technological development while remaining connected to their cultural roots.

Max Levchin
Max Levchin (born 1975) is an American technology entrepreneur, co-founder of PayPal, and one of the leading figures among Silicon Valley's generation of tech visionaries. Born in Kyiv to a Russian-speaking Jewish family, he emigrated to the United States with his parents following the collapse of the Soviet Union. He later graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

In the late 1990s, Levchin joined forces with Peter Thiel to build a company that would eventually become PayPal, a groundbreaking electronic payments platform that transformed online commerce worldwide. PayPal became one of the defining symbols of the early digital economy and helped lay the foundation for today's financial technology industry.

Levchin also played a key role in developing anti-fraud systems for online payments and was among the pioneers behind CAPTCHA technology, which became widely used to distinguish human users from automated programs and enhance internet security.

Following PayPal's success, he founded several technology companies, most notably Affirm, a major financial technology firm specializing in consumer lending and payment solutions. He was also an early investor in Yelp, helping support the growth of one of the internet's most influential local business platforms.

Over the years, Levchin has frequently appeared on lists of America's most influential innovators and technology entrepreneurs. His career exemplifies how immigrants from Ukraine and their descendants have helped shape the modern American technology sector and the global digital economy.

Jan Koum
Jan Koum (born 1976) is an American software engineer, entrepreneur, and billionaire best known as the co-founder of WhatsApp. Born into a Jewish family in Kyiv and raised in the city of Fastiv, he emigrated to the United States with his family after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Fascinated by computers from an early age, Koum taught himself programming and eventually joined Yahoo!, where he met his future business partner, Brian Acton. In 2009, the two launched WhatsApp, a simple and user-friendly messaging service that rapidly grew into one of the world's most widely used communication platforms.

The company's success culminated in 2014 when Facebook (now Meta) acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion, one of the largest deals in the history of the technology industry. The acquisition made Koum one of Silicon Valley's most successful entrepreneurs and a prominent figure in the global digital economy.

Beyond his business achievements, Koum has become known for his philanthropy, supporting educational, medical, and technological initiatives in the United States and abroad. His story—from an immigrant from post-Soviet Ukraine to the co-founder of a platform used by billions of people worldwide—has become one of the most remarkable success stories in modern American technology.

Koum's success also highlights the broader contribution of immigrants from Ukraine to the development of America's innovation economy, demonstrating how talent, opportunity, and determination can shape technologies used by billions of people around the world.

Yury Gogotsi
Yury Gogotsi (born 1961) is a Ukrainian-American scientist and one of the world's leading experts in nanomaterials, energy storage, and materials chemistry. A graduate of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, he earned a Doctor of Sciences degree in chemistry at the age of 25, becoming one of the youngest scholars in Ukraine to achieve that distinction.

In the early 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Gogotsi was among the first Ukrainian researchers to receive opportunities to work in the West. Since then, he has built a distinguished international career in both the United States and Europe and currently serves as a professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia.

Gogotsi is among the most highly cited scientists in the world. His research in nanotechnology, supercapacitors, and advanced carbon materials has been cited more than 300,000 times, reflecting its profound impact on modern science and engineering. His work has contributed to the development of a new generation of energy-storage systems used in modern electronics, power technologies, and environmentally sustainable applications.

In addition to his energy-related research, Gogotsi has worked on technologies for water desalination and on biomedical applications of nanomaterials, helping to expand the practical uses of advanced materials across multiple domains.

For his scientific achievements, he has been elected to numerous leading international scientific societies and has repeatedly been included among the world's most influential researchers. His career exemplifies the global impact of Ukrainian-born scientists and their contributions to American innovation, advanced technology, and scientific discovery.

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Conclusion

Thus, as we can see, the men and women who crossed the Atlantic from Ukraine followed different paths in life, held different views, and defined their identities in different ways. Yet all of them became part of American history while remaining part of Ukraine's story as well.

Their achievements helped shape American science, technology, business, culture, aviation, space exploration, and the arts. At the same time, their lives remind us that the history of immigration is not only a story of adaptation and success in a new country, but also one of preserving roots, memory, and a connection to one's homeland.

From pioneering engineers and scientists to astronauts, entrepreneurs, artists, musicians, and performers, people with roots in Ukraine have made a lasting contribution to the development of the United States. Their accomplishments demonstrate how talent, determination, and opportunity can transcend borders, enriching entire societies and helping to shape the modern world.

Svitlana Shevtsova, Kyiv

Photos via Encyclopedia of Ukraine, National Aviation University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Qhuang75, Morgan Sherwood (FlawedArtist), Tech.eu Photostream, Jan Koum, Center for Materials Science, Wikipedia, Kyiv Polytechnic Institute

[Selam/]

ጎበዝ ነህ ጃል፣ በኩራዝ ፈልገህ አገኘሃት። አቶ ይስሓቅ በሚቀጥለው armband እንደሚያረግ እርግጠኛ ነኝ!

[Zmeselo]

I didn't write the article, stupid monkey.

ጎበዝ ነህ ጃል፣ በኩራዝ ፈልገህ አገኘሃት። አቶ ይስሓቅ በሚቀጥለው armband እንደሚያረግ እርግጠኛ ነኝ!

[Dama]

Identity works as selling or marketing points for politicians, artists and sports men/women, business providers who need loyalist consumers of their services.
Identity therefore is an economic and political asset to those who promote it.
Is it moral? Is there anyone exploited without due return for their loss of value in time and money?
Gonnorhea Selamwit, of course, cannot answer these questions.

[Zmeselo]

ከምዡ’ዉን ኣሎ!

From Hollywood to NASA: The Ukrainian Contribution to America
22.06.2026 17:30
Ukrinform
How Ukrainian Emigrants Shaped American Science, Culture, and Technology
For centuries, the United States has been a land of opportunity for millions of immigrants from around the world, including many from Ukraine. Some fled war, pogroms, political repression, and poverty; others sought freedom and the chance to fulfill their ambitions. Scientists, artists, workers, and farmers—people from different generations and social backgrounds—crossed the Atlantic in search of a new life. They came from Galicia and Lemkivshchyna, from Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, and countless other corners of Ukraine.

In America, they founded companies, developed groundbreaking technologies, and left their mark on science, culture, aviation, space exploration, and even the very image of twentieth-century America. Some became household names and earned a permanent place in the nation's history. Their lives followed different paths, and they viewed their identities in different ways, but they all shared one thing: roots connected to Ukraine.

The stories of these immigrants are woven into the story of America itself. Let us recall just a few of the remarkable individuals who helped shape the nation.

Science and Technology

Stepan (Stephen) Timoshenko
Stepan (Stephen) Timoshenko (1878–1972) was one of the most influential engineers of the twentieth century and is widely regarded as the father of modern applied mechanics and strength-of-materials engineering. Born in the Chernihiv region to the family of a former serf, he studied in St. Petersburg and taught at leading technical institutions across the Russian Empire and Germany before emigrating to the United States in the aftermath of the revolutionary upheavals of the early twentieth century.

In the 1920s, Timoshenko worked as a research engineer in Philadelphia and at the Westinghouse Electric Company before returning to academia. He left an indelible mark on American engineering education, training generations of engineers at the University of Michigan and Stanford University. His textbooks on mechanics and elasticity theory, translated into 36 languages, became foundational works and remained standard references at universities around the world for decades.

Timoshenko sought to bridge the gap between mathematical theory and practical engineering challenges—a philosophy that made his work transformative for both American science and industry.

It is also worth noting the accomplishments of Timoshenko’s brothers. Serhii Timoshenko, an architect, served as Minister of Transportation of the Ukrainian People's Republic and took part in the Second Winter Campaign of 1921, while Volodymyr Timoshenko pursued a distinguished career in economics. Both eventually emigrated to the United States. Volodymyr taught economics at the University of Michigan and Stanford University, while Serhii worked in architecture and construction. Serhii’s son, Oleksandr Timoshenko, followed in his father's footsteps, contributing to such major projects as the Washington Metro and skyscrapers in New York City.

Igor Sikorsky
Igor Sikorsky (1889–1972) was one of the pioneers of modern aviation and the founder of the American helicopter industry. Born in Kyiv, he studied at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and, at the age of just 24, designed the legendary four-engine aircraft Ilya Muromets, one of the most advanced airplanes of its era. Following the Bolshevik Revolution, he emigrated to the United States, where he founded Sikorsky Aircraft in 1923.

It was Sikorsky who transformed the helicopter from an experimental curiosity into a practical means of transportation, revolutionizing military, rescue, and civilian aviation. His first major project in North America was the large twin-engine S-29 aircraft. Soon afterward, however, he turned his attention to lighter aviation, focusing primarily on amphibious aircraft and, from the late 1930s onward, on helicopter development.

In the United States, Sikorsky created 17 basic aircraft designs and 18 helicopter models. From the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower to the present day, U.S. presidents have flown in helicopters built by Sikorsky's company.

Sikorsky's legacy stands as a powerful example of how talent from Ukraine helped shape America's technological and industrial strength.

George (Georgy) Kistiakowsky
George (Georgy) Kistiakowsky (1900–1982) was an American scientist of Ukrainian origin, a key contributor to the U.S. atomic bomb program, and an influential adviser on science and national security. He was born in Boyarka into a distinguished Ukrainian intellectual family. His father, Bohdan Kistiakowsky, was a member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Following his arrest by the Bolsheviks, Kistiakowsky eventually emigrated to the United States, where he joined Harvard University in 1930.

During the Manhattan Project, Kistiakowsky headed the explosives division at Los Alamos Laboratory and made a crucial contribution to the development of America's nuclear weapons program. He was responsible for designing the so-called explosive lenses—an extraordinarily complex system that synchronized detonations with extreme precision. Without this innovation, the plutonium bomb would not have functioned. In effect, Kistiakowsky was one of the pivotal figures behind both the Trinity test and the Fat Man bomb.

From 1959 to 1961, he served as Science Adviser to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, advocating international control of nuclear testing and gradual nuclear disarmament. The author of more than 150 scientific publications, Kistiakowsky was among the Ukrainian-born scholars who left a profound mark on American science, national defense, and global security in the twentieth century.

At Harvard, he earned a reputation as an exceptionally charismatic teacher. Former students remembered him as a brilliant lecturer with a sharp wit and an almost theatrical style of presentation. His daughter, Vera Kistiakowsky, also became a distinguished scientist and made history as the first woman appointed professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Theodosius Dobzhansky
Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900–1975) was one of the most influential geneticists of the twentieth century and a founding figure of modern evolutionary biology. He played a central role in the development of the modern evolutionary synthesis through his landmark book Genetics and the Origin of Species (1937). Dobzhansky helped reconcile Charles Darwin's theory of evolution with Gregor Mendel's principles of genetics. Before his work, these two fields had largely evolved along separate tracks; Dobzhansky demonstrated that evolution operates through changes in the genetic composition of populations.

Born in Nemyriv to a Polish-Ukrainian family, Dobzhansky emigrated to the United States at the age of 27. He spent most of his career at Columbia University and Rockefeller University, where he trained a generation of leading geneticists. His pioneering research on Drosophila fruit flies became a cornerstone of experimental genetics and helped establish the foundations of population genetics.

Dobzhansky was among the scientists who helped transform the United States into a global center of genetic and biological research in the postwar era. He was also a vocal critic of racism and biological determinism. Following the Second World War, he actively challenged pseudoscientific theories of "superior" and "inferior" races, arguing that genetic diversity is a natural and essential feature of human development.

His famous statement, "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution," has become the unofficial motto of modern biology and remains one of the most widely quoted phrases in the life sciences.

Dobzhansky's daughter, Sophie Coe, also achieved distinction in academia, becoming a renowned anthropologist and historian of food in pre-Columbian America. Through both his scientific discoveries and his intellectual influence, Dobzhansky helped shape the course of modern biology and cemented America's position at the forefront of genetic research.

Lubomyr Romankiw
Lubomyr Romankiw (1931–2024) was a Ukrainian-Canadian-American engineer whose innovations helped lay the technological foundations of the modern computer revolution. Born in Zhovkva in the Lviv region, he emigrated to the West after the Second World War and later became a leading engineer at IBM, where he worked for more than half a century.

Romankiw's pioneering advances in magnetic recording and magnetic-head technology made modern hard disk drives—and ultimately personal computers—possible. For this reason, he is often regarded as one of the engineers without whom the age of Apple and the digital world as we know it could never have emerged.

Over the course of his career, Romankiw was awarded 67 patents and published more than 150 scientific papers. He also mentored generations of engineers at IBM, helping to shape the company's culture of innovation and technological excellence.

Despite his international recognition, Romankiw never forgot his roots. He often recalled that his family had been forced to flee Soviet occupation to escape political persecution. Throughout his life, he remained a proud advocate of his Ukrainian heritage and a powerful example of how immigrants from Ukraine helped strengthen America's scientific and technological leadership.

Michael Yarymovych
Michael Yarymovych (born 1933) is an American aerospace engineer of Ukrainian descent whose career has been closely intertwined with the U.S. space age. Born to parents from the Ternopil region who emigrated to the United States after the Second World War, Yarymovych devoted his life to turning ambitious space-age visions into engineering reality.

At a time when the United States and the Soviet Union were competing for supremacy in space, Yarymovych worked at NASA on the Apollo program and served as one of the systems engineers involved in the effort to land humans on the Moon. Colleagues jokingly referred to him as "the man who kept the Russians from reaching the Moon first."

He later became a scientific adviser to the U.S. Air Force, collaborated with NATO, and directed a number of international aerospace research initiatives. His contributions to aerodynamics and space technology helped shape a new generation of space programs, from orbital stations to long-term interplanetary missions.

For his contributions to American science and defense technology, Yarymovych received some of the highest civilian honors awarded by the U.S. Air Force. His career stands as yet another example of how people of Ukrainian origin helped advance America's scientific, technological, and aerospace achievements.

Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper
Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper (born 1963) is a NASA astronaut, U.S. Navy officer, and veteran of two Space Shuttle missions. Having logged two spaceflights and five spacewalks, she became one of the most prominent American astronauts of Ukrainian descent.

Stefanyshyn-Piper earned an engineering degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), served in the United States Navy, and was selected as a NASA astronaut in 1996. Her life story embodies the American dream. Her father, a native of the Lviv region, arrived in the United States as a displaced person after the Second World War, having been forced into labor in Nazi Germany as an Ostarbeiter. His daughter would go on to travel into space.

Raised within the vibrant Ukrainian-American community of Minneapolis, Stefanyshyn-Piper remained deeply connected to her heritage. She was an active member of Plast, spoke Ukrainian, and frequently emphasized her Ukrainian roots.

Her career stands as a powerful example of how the children of Ukrainian immigrants became participants in some of America's most ambitious scientific and space exploration endeavors. Through her achievements, Stefanyshyn-Piper helped carry the legacy of the Ukrainian diaspora into the space age.

Business and Technology

Volodymyr (William) Dzus
Volodymyr (William) Dzus (1895–1964) was a Ukrainian-American engineer, inventor, and industrialist best known as the founder of the Dzus Fastener Company. Born in the village of Chernykhivtsi in the Ternopil region, he emigrated to New York as a teenager, where he quickly demonstrated an exceptional talent for innovation and engineering.

In the 1930s, Dzus developed a revolutionary quarter-turn fastener for aircraft, later known as the Dzus fastener. The invention dramatically simplified the assembly and maintenance of aircraft panels and was eventually adopted by the automotive and military industries as well. During the Second World War, Dzus fasteners were installed on virtually every Allied military aircraft, with demand reaching millions of units annually.

His enterprises created hundreds of jobs in the United States, including opportunities for many Ukrainian immigrants seeking to establish themselves in their new homeland. Beyond his commercial success, Dzus was deeply committed to education, philanthropy, and the growth of the Ukrainian-American community.

He was a founder and the first president of the Ukrainian Institute of America, one of the most prominent Ukrainian cultural institutions in the United States. Throughout his life, he remained dedicated to preserving Ukrainian heritage while embracing the opportunities and freedoms offered by America.

Dzus often expressed a philosophy that reflected both his entrepreneurial spirit and personal values:

"Obstacles become insignificant when viewed from the heights of love for the work to which you have devoted your hands."

He cherished his homeland while deeply valuing the freedom he found in America, regarding it as one of the greatest blessings a person can possess. His life stands as a testament to how determination, ingenuity, and hard work enabled generations of immigrants to contribute to America's economic and technological development while remaining connected to their cultural roots.

Max Levchin
Max Levchin (born 1975) is an American technology entrepreneur, co-founder of PayPal, and one of the leading figures among Silicon Valley's generation of tech visionaries. Born in Kyiv to a Russian-speaking Jewish family, he emigrated to the United States with his parents following the collapse of the Soviet Union. He later graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

In the late 1990s, Levchin joined forces with Peter Thiel to build a company that would eventually become PayPal, a groundbreaking electronic payments platform that transformed online commerce worldwide. PayPal became one of the defining symbols of the early digital economy and helped lay the foundation for today's financial technology industry.

Levchin also played a key role in developing anti-fraud systems for online payments and was among the pioneers behind CAPTCHA technology, which became widely used to distinguish human users from automated programs and enhance internet security.

Following PayPal's success, he founded several technology companies, most notably Affirm, a major financial technology firm specializing in consumer lending and payment solutions. He was also an early investor in Yelp, helping support the growth of one of the internet's most influential local business platforms.

Over the years, Levchin has frequently appeared on lists of America's most influential innovators and technology entrepreneurs. His career exemplifies how immigrants from Ukraine and their descendants have helped shape the modern American technology sector and the global digital economy.

Jan Koum
Jan Koum (born 1976) is an American software engineer, entrepreneur, and billionaire best known as the co-founder of WhatsApp. Born into a Jewish family in Kyiv and raised in the city of Fastiv, he emigrated to the United States with his family after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Fascinated by computers from an early age, Koum taught himself programming and eventually joined Yahoo!, where he met his future business partner, Brian Acton. In 2009, the two launched WhatsApp, a simple and user-friendly messaging service that rapidly grew into one of the world's most widely used communication platforms.

The company's success culminated in 2014 when Facebook (now Meta) acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion, one of the largest deals in the history of the technology industry. The acquisition made Koum one of Silicon Valley's most successful entrepreneurs and a prominent figure in the global digital economy.

Beyond his business achievements, Koum has become known for his philanthropy, supporting educational, medical, and technological initiatives in the United States and abroad. His story—from an immigrant from post-Soviet Ukraine to the co-founder of a platform used by billions of people worldwide—has become one of the most remarkable success stories in modern American technology.

Koum's success also highlights the broader contribution of immigrants from Ukraine to the development of America's innovation economy, demonstrating how talent, opportunity, and determination can shape technologies used by billions of people around the world.

Yury Gogotsi
Yury Gogotsi (born 1961) is a Ukrainian-American scientist and one of the world's leading experts in nanomaterials, energy storage, and materials chemistry. A graduate of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, he earned a Doctor of Sciences degree in chemistry at the age of 25, becoming one of the youngest scholars in Ukraine to achieve that distinction.

In the early 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Gogotsi was among the first Ukrainian researchers to receive opportunities to work in the West. Since then, he has built a distinguished international career in both the United States and Europe and currently serves as a professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia.

Gogotsi is among the most highly cited scientists in the world. His research in nanotechnology, supercapacitors, and advanced carbon materials has been cited more than 300,000 times, reflecting its profound impact on modern science and engineering. His work has contributed to the development of a new generation of energy-storage systems used in modern electronics, power technologies, and environmentally sustainable applications.

In addition to his energy-related research, Gogotsi has worked on technologies for water desalination and on biomedical applications of nanomaterials, helping to expand the practical uses of advanced materials across multiple domains.

For his scientific achievements, he has been elected to numerous leading international scientific societies and has repeatedly been included among the world's most influential researchers. His career exemplifies the global impact of Ukrainian-born scientists and their contributions to American innovation, advanced technology, and scientific discovery.

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Conclusion

Thus, as we can see, the men and women who crossed the Atlantic from Ukraine followed different paths in life, held different views, and defined their identities in different ways. Yet all of them became part of American history while remaining part of Ukraine's story as well.

Their achievements helped shape American science, technology, business, culture, aviation, space exploration, and the arts. At the same time, their lives remind us that the history of immigration is not only a story of adaptation and success in a new country, but also one of preserving roots, memory, and a connection to one's homeland.

From pioneering engineers and scientists to astronauts, entrepreneurs, artists, musicians, and performers, people with roots in Ukraine have made a lasting contribution to the development of the United States. Their accomplishments demonstrate how talent, determination, and opportunity can transcend borders, enriching entire societies and helping to shape the modern world.

Svitlana Shevtsova, Kyiv

Photos via Encyclopedia of Ukraine, National Aviation University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Qhuang75, Morgan Sherwood (FlawedArtist), Tech.eu Photostream, Jan Koum, Center for Materials Science, Wikipedia, Kyiv Polytechnic Institute

[Selam/]

You made me crack, hardhead. I was trying to compliment you!

I didn't write the article, stupid monkey.

ጎበዝ ነህ ጃል፣ በኩራዝ ፈልገህ አገኘሃት። አቶ ይስሓቅ በሚቀጥለው armband እንደሚያረግ እርግጠኛ ነኝ!

[Meleket]

የምድር እምብርቷ

“የምድር እምብርቷ የት ነው?” ብትባል፡
ኤርትራ ውስጥ ተክለህ አንዲቷን ችካል፡
እንግዲህ መትሩ ከሰሜን ከደቡብ፡
ሲሻችሁም ድገሙ ከምስራቅ ከምዕራብ፡
ብለህ ንገራቸው እምብርቷ የምድር፡
እዚች ችካሌ ስር!



እላይ እኛ ኤርትራውያን የመሃልና የመስመር ዳኞች፡ በተለመደው ኤርትራዊ ጭዋነት ኩራትና ትህትና ልንተረጉመው የሞከርነው ግጥም፡ የኤርትራዊው ሎሬት ታጋይ ሰለሞን ጸሃየ ግጥም ነው። እርግጥ ነው የትግርኛዋ ግጥም ስንኞቹን በትክክል አሁን ባናስታውሳቸውም፡ ጠቅላላ ይዘቱ ግን እላይ ባማርኛ ልናቀርበው የሞከርነው ነው።

ባለህበት ይመችህ የቀድሞዉ የጀነራል ዊንጌት ተማሪ የአሁኑ ኤርትራዊው ሎሬት ታጋይ ሰለሞን ጸሃየ በራኺ፡ የሰፊው የኤርትራ ህዝብ መዝሙር ገጣሚ!!




Solomon Tsehaye at the official launch of his book.

የሰሎሞንን ግጥም እናስታውስና እንተረጉም ዘንድ የገፋፋን ይህ ጽሑፍ ነው። viewtopic.php?f=2&t=380509&p=1626533#p1626533

[Fiyameta]

[Fed_Up]

Beautiful!!

[Digital Weyane]

ዓረብ ኤምሬት ኻው ዝረግጨኒ አሌክሳንደር ይስሀቕ ይርገጨኒ።