Higher Education - Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine
Physics has been taught at the University of Lviv for over 230 years. The Faculty of Physics of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv was founded in 1953 as a result of the division of Physics and Mathematics faculty into the Faculties of Physics and of Mechanics and Mathematics. In the beginning years, the Faculty included the following departments: the Department for Theoretical Physics (founded in 1872), the Department for Experimental Physics (founded in 1872), the Department for General Physics (founded in 1945), and the Department for Higher Mathematics.