Lubomyr T. Romankiw was born in Zhovkva, Ukraine on April 17, 1931. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, and his master's and doctoral degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Romankiw joined IBM in 1962, where he remains today as an IBM Fellow and Researcher at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center.
He is recognized for his research with magnetic materials, reflective displays and copper plating. Romankiw is listed as the inventor or co-inventor on over 65 US patents, including magnetic thin-film storage heads (co-invented with David Thompson in the 1970s). He has also authored over 150 articles and edited numerous volumes of technical symposia.
Several organizations have recognized and awarded Romankiw's work such as the Electrochemical Society, Society of Chemical Industry, and the IEEE. In 1994 he received the IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award, and in 2012, he was an inductee in the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
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The collection consist of a photograph and audio recording of the talk Lubomyr Romankiw gave for the Edmonton Plast parents during annual Sviato Vesny (Spring Celebration) organized by Edmonton Plast at the Elk Island National Park in East Central Alberta on May 30, 2015. Dr. Romankiw speaks about Plast, its creation, and activities in the past and today in Ukraine and diaspora communities around the world.
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Left to right: A. Hornjatkevyc, L. Romankiw
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Recorded by Maryna Chernyavska, the Archivist of the Bohdan Medwidsky Ukrainian Folklore Archives