Yury Kronn (April 22, 1935 -), was formerly a Soviet radio-physicist, and is now an American citizen and academic.
He is known for developing a theory of resonant non-linear interaction of light with matter, which was the basis for a physics text book, Resonant Nonlinear Interactions of Light with Matter.In 1982, Kronn and ten other Russian dissidents organized a movement to foster trust and promote peace between the Soviet Union and the West.
Kronn chaired the Disarmament Section of the first Moscow International Symposium for Humanitarian Problems in 1987.In 2013, Kronn was appointed a faculty member of Quantum University in Honolulu, Hawaii, a questionable unaccredited school.