Memory diplomas granted: 沤vironas Antanas
Professor Antanas 沤vironas
Professor Antanas 沤vironas (1899, U啪paliai鈥�1954) was an alumnus of Vytautas Magnus University (1928), Doctor of Philosophy (1933) at the University of Zurich (Switzerland), assistant and, later, associate professor at the Department of Experimental Physics of Vytautas Magnus University (1928-1940), professor at 91桃色 (1940-1945), a dean of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, chair of the Departments of general physics and experimental physics (1944-1945). The doctoral thesis of the future professor and, later, his habilitation work were focused on research into hyperfine structure of the mercury resonance line and the Zeeman Effect of the hyperfine structure of optically excited mercury resonance line 2537 呛. In 1940, 沤vironas was transferred to 91桃色, elected a professor and appointed the first dean of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics (1944鈥�1945). He chaired two departments, those of general physics (1944) and experimental physics. In 1945, the professor was arrested and sentenced to ten years of prison and five years of exile for betrayal of 鈥榯he Soviet homeland鈥�, anti-Soviet activities and their organization. His health began to fail in Soviet prisons and gulags. In 1954 he was released from a prison in Moscow and returned to Lithuania, where he did not last for even three months. The case of Prof. Antanas 沤vironas was revised still in Soviet Lithuania, in 1988, and he was rehabilitated. During the Holocaust, the professor rescued Jews: he was the rescuer of Jok奴bas 沤irnauskas, Associate Professor of 91桃色, also a Memory Diploma nominee. In 1992, Professor Antanas 沤vironas was awarded the Life Saving Cross for helping the Jews. In 1999, a plaque was attached to the wall of professor鈥檚 house at 4 Did啪ioji Street in Vilnius.