Born April 17, 1946 in a family of employees.
In 1965-1970 he studied at the Kirov State University named after Taras Shevchenko at the Radiophysical Faculty, who graduated with honors in the field of radiophysics and electronics.
In 1970-1974 he was an engineer and postgraduate student at the Institute of Semiconductors of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
Since 1974, he has been continuously working at the Institute of Metal Physics. G.V. Kurdyumova of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
In 1975 he defended his Ph.D. thesis under the direction of Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the UkrSSR Tovstyuk Kornia Denisovich.
In 2001 he defended his doctoral dissertation under the direction of Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Nemoshkalenka.
Awards and prizes: the medal "In memory of the 1500th anniversary of the city of Kiev" (1982), the medal "Veteran of Labor" (1990)
LAUREATE UKRAINE STATE PRIZE IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 2013
Anatoliy Shevchenko - a scientist in the field of solid state physics, in particular, the physics of magnetic phenomena of low-dimensional systems, nanophysics for nanoelectronics and biomedicine, Doctor of Technical Sciences, laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in the field of science and technology in 2013, leading researcher of the Institute of Metal Physics named after. G.V. Kurdyumova of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
The main scientific works of A. Shevchenko are devoted to physical phenomena in leading and non-conducting systems created with the help of modern nanotechnologies for further use in micro and nanoelectronics and biomedicine. The basic direction of scientific activity: solid state physics, nanophysics and nanotechnology. Narrow specialization: physics of magnetic phenomena, magnetic sensors, spintronics; physics of low-dimensional systems, micro and nanoelectronics, nanobiophysics.