Algimantas Adolfas Jucys (14 November 1936 – 29 July 1997) was a

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n theoretical physicist more prominent as a

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, a son of

n physicist

Adolfas Jucys Adolfas Pranaitis Jucys (12 September 1904 – 4 February 1974; also referred to as ''Yutsis'', ''Yuzis'', or ''Ioucis'' depending on translation) was a Lithuanian theoretical physicist and mathematician, and inducted member of the Lithuanian Academ ...

. Since 1967 Algis Jucys was researcher at the Institute of Physics and Mathematics of

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, in 1977-1990 at the Institute of Physics and in 1990-1996 at the Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy, Lithuania. Algimantas (Algis) Adolfas (A.-A.A.) Jucys was member of Lithuanian Physical Society,

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, American Mathematical Society. Jucys–Murphy elements in the group algebra

\mathbb_n

of the

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are named after him.

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