Kateryna Yushchenko (scientist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Ukrainian Soviet and Ukrainian computer scientist
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Place of Birth: Chyhyryn, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine
About Kateryna Yushchenko (scientist)
- Kateryna Lohvynivna Yushchenko (Ukrainian: ???????? ?????????? ??????, Russian: ????????? ?????????? ??????, December 8, 1919, Chigirin - died August 15, 2001) was a Ukrainian computer and information research scientist, corresponding member of USSR Academy of Sciences (1976), and member of The International Academy of Computer Science.
- She developed one of the world's first high-level languages with indirect address in programming, called the Address programming language.
- Over the period of her academic career, Yushchenko supervised 45 Ph.D students.
- Further professional achievements include Yushchenko being awarded two USSR State Prizes, The USSR Council of Ministers Prize, The Academician Glushkov Prize, and The Order of Princess Olga.
- Yushchenko was the first woman in the USSR to become a Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences in programming.
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