Ernest Marcel Svaton was born in 1930 in Czechoslovakia. In 1949, after the country turned into communist dictatorship he escaped to West Germany. For some time he worked in the iron mines in Northern Sweden. He subsequently moved to U.S. where he studied physics. He was member of the U.S. research mission at McMurdo station in Antarctica 1963-64 (1). He came back to Sweden for PhD studies at the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Stockholm. His dissertation work "Antimatter and cosmology" (1975) considered Alfven-Klein metagalactic theory (2). Between 1964 and 1990 he co-authored papers on particle accelerator physics and plasma properties (3). He died in 2009.

1. Svaton_Peaks
2. IAEA
3. Google Scholar