Volodymyr Skok (1932 - 2003) — Ukrainian neurophysiologist and biophysicist, full member of USSR and Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, laureate of the State Prize in science and technology. His scientific career started at the Institute of Physiology of Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv under the supervision of Danylo Vorontsov, then he worked at Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology. His research was about synaptic transmission, mainly in autonomic nervous structures. In 1986, Volodymyr Skok and colleagues were the first to record the electrical activity of the single nicotinic acetylcholine receptor.