Anton Nikiforovich Sevchenko (22.02.1903-26.09.1978) — Soviet physicist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR (1953). Born in the village of Deniskovichi, Gomel oblast. Graduated from Byelorussian University (1931). In 1934 — 52 he worked at the State Optical Institute, in 1953 —55 at the Physico-Technical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR, in 1955 — 58 he was director of the Institute of Physics and Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR, in 1957 — 72 rector of Byelorussian University, and in 1972 — 78 director of the Institute of Applied Physical Problems of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR.
His work was in the spectroscopy and luminescence of organic and inorganic substances, molecular spectroscopy, quantum electronics and the spectroscopy of semiconductors. He carried out research on the quenching of luminescence, the laws of its decay, the measurement of the mean duration of the afterglow of organic and inorganic compounds, and the study of the luminescence, absorption and polarisation spectra of uranyl crystals, solutions and glasses.
Hero of Socialist Labour (1971). He founded a school of physicists.