Adolfas Jucys

Adolfas Pranaitis Jucys was a Lithuanian theoretical physicist, and inducted member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences in 1953, participated in mathematics. He graduated from Kaunas University in 1931 and later worked with both creators of the self-consistent field method – Douglas Hartree in Manchester and Vladimir Fock in Leningrad (1949–1951). Adolfas Jucys created the scientific school of theoretical physics in Vilnius, was the head of the Department of Theoretical Physics at Vilnius University (1944–1971). He organized the first Institute of Physics and Mathematics in Lithuania and was its first director (1956–1963), and later (1971–1974) the head of the institute's Department of Quantum Mechanical Calculations.