Vytenis M. Vasyliunas FRS (born 25 September 1939) is a Lithuanian space scientist who was director of Germany's Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research from 1977 to 2007.

Vytenis Marija Vasyliunas
Born (1939-09-25) 25 September 1939 (age 85)
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Scientific career
InstitutionsHarvard College 1958–1962

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1962–1966

Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research 1962–1966

Life and work

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Vasyliunas was born as son of the Lithuanian violinist Izidorius Vasyliūnas in 1939. He studied at Harvard College and received a degree in 1962. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he received his Ph.D. in 1966. In the following years he was Sloan Fellow and received the Macelwane Award in 1975.[1]

From 1977 to 2007 he was one of the directors of Germany's Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research.[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ Menard, H. W.; McKenzie, Dan; Ahrens, Thomas J.; Schubert, Gerald; Dessler, Alexander J.; Vasyliunas, Vytenis M. (1975). "James B. Macelwane Award to Dan McKenzie, Gerald Schubert and Vytenis M. Vasyliunas". Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union. 56 (11): 922. Bibcode:1975EOSTr..56..922M. doi:10.1029/EO056i011p00922. ISSN 0096-3941. S2CID 140686785.