Academic Endel Lippmaa dies

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Estonian academic and former politician Endel Lippmaa passed away on Thursday evening at 85 years old, the Estonian Academy of Sciences said.

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.

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