Juris Ekmanis

Juris Ekmanis
Ekmanis in 2012
Born	(1941-12-02) December 2, 1941 Riga, Reichskomissariat Ostland (Now: Latvia)
Alma mater	Riga Polytechnical Institute
Occupation	Physicist

Juris Ekmanis, (born: 2 December 1941, Riga, Latvian SSR) — Professor, President of Latvian Academy of Sciences (2004—2012).^[1]

Career

He was appointed Junior Research Associate at the Riga Polytechnical Institute from 1961-1986, and Professor from 1986-1994. He was Visiting Professor at Cornell University (Ithaca), Iowa State University (Ames), University of California, Berkeley, USA in 1974 and at Manchester University in 1993. In 1976 he became a Visiting Scientist at McGill University (Montreal). In 1990 he became the Director of the Institute of the Physical Energetics at the Latvian Academy of Sciences, and since 2004 he has been the President of said academy.

Honours and awards

• Order of the Three Stars (Latvia), 2009
• The Latvian Academy of Sciences Alfreds Vitols Prize, 1999

References

External links

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