Karl Rebane (11 April 1926, Pärnu – 4 November 2007, Tartu)[1] was a Soviet and Estonian physicist.

Karl Rebane
Born(1926-04-11)11 April 1926
Pärnu, Estonia
Died4 November 2007(2007-11-04) (aged 81)
Tartu, Estonia
Academic background
Education

Biography

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He studied at the Tallinn Technical University from 1947 to 1949, and graduated from the Leningrad University in 1952. Rebane received a PhD in Solid State Theory in 1955 from Leningrad University and a Doctor of Sciences degree in Theoretical Physics in 1964 from the Institute of Physics of the Belarusian AS at Minsk. He joined Tartu University in 1955 where he held both teaching and administrative positions, including Professor and Chair of the Experimental Physics Department (1958–60), and Professor and Chair of the Joint Department of Laser Optics at the Institute of Physics and Tartu University (1974–1993).[2] He was president of the Estonian Academy of Sciences from 1973 to 1990.[3]

Early life

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Karl Rebane was born in Pärnu, Estonia.[1] His father, Karl Rebane Sr., was a bookkeeper.[4] He was the second oldest out of five children.[4] His brothers were Jaan Rebane [et], Toomas Rebane (:et) and Jüri Rebane [et].[4] The war reached Estonia in 1941 and his family evacuated to a small village in the oblast of Chelyabinsk where he worked at the local kolkhoz and attended a school for displaced Estonian children in Verkhneuralsk.[1] In the spring of 1944, he was called into military service and joined Eesti Laskurkorpus, an Estonian division of the Red Army, where he was a crew member of a 45 mm antitank gun.[1][5] He was wounded in battle on November 23, 1944, on the Sõrve peninsula, Estonia.[1][5]

Awards and honours

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For research and scientific activity:

Family

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He was married to Ljubov Rebane, and had two children, Inna and Aleksander Rebane. He also had three brothers, Jaan, Toomas, and Jüri Rebane. His niece is writer and mathematician Helju Rebane.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Karl Rebane". Aleksander Rebane. 4 November 2008. Archived from the original on 16 September 2013. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
  2. ^ Birman, Joseph; Gorokhovsky, Anshel; Maradudin, Alexei; Kaplyanskii, Alexander (25 February 2008). "Obituary of Karl Rebane". Physics Today. doi:10.1063/PT.4.2165. Archived from the original on 15 April 2013.
  3. ^ "History of the UT Institute of Physics" (in Estonian). University of Tartu. 4 January 2011. Archived from the original on 26 February 2012. Retrieved 30 December 2012.
  4. ^ a b c Sammelselg, Tiina (6 December 2016). "Karl Rebane 90". Tartu Ülikooli Füüsika Instituut (in Estonian). Archived from the original on 24 February 2021. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Karl Rebane" (PDF). Eesti Teaduste Akadeemia (in Estonian). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2020. Retrieved 22 May 2021.