Karl Rebane
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- Tallinn Technical University
- Leningrad University
- Institute of Physics of the Belarusian AS
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| Born | 11 April 1926 Pärnu, Estonia |
| Died | 4 November 2007 (aged 81) Tartu, Estonia |
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Karl Rebane (11 April 1926 – 4 November 2007)[1] was a Soviet and Estonian physicist.
He studied at the Tallinn Technical University from 1947 to 1949, and graduated from the Leningrad University in 1952. He graduated from Leningrad University in 1955 with a doctorate in solid state theory. He also obtained a Doctor of Sciences in Theoretical Physics in 1964 from the Belarusian AS. He became a faculty member at Tartu University in 1955. He was Professor and Chair of the Experimental Physics Department between 1958 and 1960, and was Professor and Chair of the Joint Department of Laser Optics at the Institute of Physics between 1974 and 1993.[2] He was president of the Estonian Academy of Sciences from 1973 to 1990.[3]
Early life
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, Toomas Rebane (:et) and Jüri Rebane.[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]
