Tron Evgeniy Zhanovich (1892-1967)

Tron Evgeniy Zhanovich (1892, Riga — 1967, Leningrad) — ophthalmologist. Doctor of Medical Sciences, professor, colonel of the medical service.

Evgeniy Tron studied at the University of Strasbourg. In 1915, he passed external examinations for the natural sciences division of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at the University of Kyiv. In 1918, he graduated from the medical faculty of the Psychoneurological Institute in Petrograd, after which he served as a physician in the Red Army.

From 1921, he was an assistant at an ophthalmological clinic; from 1932 — head of the Department of Ophthalmology at the 2nd Leningrad Medical Institute; from 1939, he simultaneously served as scientific secretary of the same institute.

In 1941–1948, he was head of the Department of Ophthalmology at the Naval Medical Academy. He later headed the biochemical laboratory of the Leningrad Ophthalmological Institute, and from 1950 — the neuro-ophthalmological department of the A. L. Polenov Research Institute of Neurosurgery.

Evgeniy Tron was the author of about 100 scientific works, two of which — “Military Ophthalmology” (Leningrad, 1945) and “Diseases of the Visual Pathway” (Leningrad, 1953) — were awarded the M. I. Averbakh Prize of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (1947, 1956).

He was a member of the presidium and chairman of the Leningrad Scientific Society of Ophthalmologists, and an honorary member of the All-Union Scientific Society of Ophthalmologists and the Leningrad Scientific Society of Neurosurgeons.