Academic Endel Lippmaa who passed away on Thursday evening was one of the bricklayers of Estonia's freedom who helped to build a free and forward-looking modern state, Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves said.
Lippmaa was one of Estonia's freedom's bricklayers
31st July 2015, 16:12
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Ilves said in his obituary that Lippmaa's thoroughness, strictness and sharp eye for himself as well as others helped Estonia regain its freedom, and build a free and forward-looking modern state, spokespeople for the president said.
«Academic Lippmaa was uncompromising and stood for historic truth, and that led in 1989 to the exposure and condemnation of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact which robbed the Baltic countries and Poland of our freedom,» Ilves said.
The head of state sent his condolences to the family and friends of Lippmaa.
Estonian academic and former politician Endel Lippmaa passed away on Thursday evening at 85 years old.
Lippmaa was born on Sept. 15, 1930 in Tartu. He was an academic, a professor of chemical physics and physical chemistry, and a doctor of physics-mathematics. He had been head of the division of astronomy and physics at the Academy of Sciences, founder of the National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, and an honorary doctor of several universities in Estonia and abroad.
In 1999 he was elected as one of Estonia's 100 luminaries of the 20th century.
Lippmaa was part of the Estonian Popular Front and a member of the Congress of Estonia. He was a minister in three governments and a member of the parliament.