Jaak Aaviksoo
| Jaak Aaviksoo | |
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| Minister of Culture and Education | |
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In office 1995–1996 |
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| Preceded by | Peeter Kreitzberg |
| Succeeded by |
Rein Loik (as Minister of Education) Jaak Allik (as Minister of Culture) |
| Minister of Defence | |
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In office 2007–2011 |
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| Prime Minister | Andrus Ansip |
| Preceded by | Jürgen Ligi |
| Succeeded by | Mart Laar |
| Minister of Education and Research | |
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In office 6 April 2011 – 26 March 2014 |
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| Prime Minister | Andrus Ansip |
| Preceded by | Tõnis Lukas |
| Succeeded by | Jevgeni Ossinovski |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
11 January 1954 Tartu, Estonia |
| Nationality | Estonian |
| Political party | Union of Pro Patria and Res Publica |
| Alma mater | University of Tartu |
| Profession | Physicist |
Jaak Aaviksoo (born 11 January 1954) is an Estonian politician and physicist, former rector of Tartu University, who has been the Estonian Minister of Defence and Minister of Education and Research. Aaviksoo is a member of the liberal conservative party Union of Pro Patria and Res Publica.
Aaviksoo was born in Tartu. After finishing Tartu Secondary School No. 2 (present-day Miina Härma Gymnasium) in 1971, he entered the Tartu State University physics department in the chemistry-physics faculty and graduated cum laude in the field of theoretical physics in 1976. From 1976 to 1992 he was first junior, then senior and then leading scientist at the Physics Institute of the Estonian Academy of Sciences (named Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR until 1988). There he also became a Ph.D. in Physics (Thesis: "On Resonant Secondary Emission in Sodium Nitrite and Anthracene") in 1981. Aaviksoo was the first president of the Estonian Physical Society, founded in 1989. In 1992 he returned to Tartu University, this time as a professor of optics and spectroscopy. In 1995 he was the acting director of the Tartu University institute of experimental physics and technology and from 1992 to 1995 also the first pro-rector of Tartu University. He became a member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences and thus an academician in 1994. From 1981 to 1994 Aaviksoo worked in many foreign institutes as a guest professor, namely the Novosibirsk Institute of Thermal Physics, the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Osaka University and University of Paris VII: Denis Diderot.
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