Uuno Öpik
Uuno Öpik (a.k.a. Uno Öpik; 19 October 1926 in
Life and career
Uuno Öpik graduated from Tartu 1st Gymnasium in 1943.
Öpik studied at Queen's University Belfast (QUB), getting a B.Sc. in mathematics in 1950, a B.Sc. in physics in 1951, and a Ph.D. in physics in 1954 with the thesis, "Quantal investigations of certain excitation and ionization processes" under the advisor David Bates.[6]
He worked as a research fellow at the University of Bristol from 1955 to 1956, as a lecturer at the University of Aberystwyth in Wales from 1956 to 1986 and at the University of Reading from 1960 to 1962. In 1962, he returned to QUB, where he served on the staff until retirement in 1986.[1] His doctoral students included
Papers
Öpik was mainly interested in atomic physics and published over 20 scientific papers in that field.
- 1967 The polarization of a closed-shell core of an atomic system by an outer electron I. A correction to the adiabatic approximation, Proc. Phys. Soc. 92, 566
References
- ^ a b EPIK, UUNO TLÜAR foreign Estonian persons
- ^ ISBN 978-9985-66-680-7
- ^ He was my father, and therefore he had to be fine: Lembit Opik on the relentless illness that is Motor Neurone Disease, by Lembit Opik, 16 August 2009, Daily Mail
- ^ a b c Ernst Öpik (1893-1985): Astronomer; astrophysicist, Dictionary of Ulster Biography
- ^ Uuno Öpik - A great Estonian-UK Scientist by Piret Kuusk and Indrek Martinson, Tartu Observatooriumi Virtuaalne Muuseum, 2013
- ^ a b Uuno Öpik at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
