List of Estonians - Education and Science

Education and Science

  • Julius Aamisepp (1883–1950), agricultural scientist
  • Johannes Aavik (1880–1973), linguist
  • Jüri Allik (born 1949), psychologist
  • Paul Ariste (1905–1990), linguist
  • Karl Ernst von Baer (1792–1876), biologist (ethnic German)
  • Karl Ernst Claus (1796–1864), chemist (ethnic German)
  • Georg Dehio (1850–1932), art historian (ethnic German)
  • Jaan Einasto (born 1929), astrophysicist
  • Johann Friedrich Eschscholtz (1793–1831), entomologist (ethnic German)
  • Bengt Gottfried Forselius (c. 1660–1688), founder of public education
  • Johannes Hint (1914–1985), physicist, inventor
  • Karl Abraham Hunnius (1797–1851), medical doctor (ethnic German)
  • Jakob Hurt (1839–1906), linguist, collector of folklore
  • Edgar Kant (1902–1978), geographer
  • Andres Kasekamp (born 1966), historian
  • Rainer Kattel (born 1974), innovation scholar, political philosopher
  • Juri Kaude (born 1921), radiologist
  • Paul Kogerman (1891–1951), chemist
  • Wolfgang Köhler (1887–1967), psychologist (ethnic German)
  • Ilmar Koppel (born 1940), chemist
  • Nikolai Köstner (1889–1959), economist, politician
  • Eerik Kumari (1912–1984), ornithologist
  • Heinrich Lenz (1804–1865), physicist (ethnic German)
  • Elmar Leppik (1898–1978), biologist
  • Otto Liiv (1905-1942), historian, archivist
  • Mihhail Lotman (born 1952), semiotician (Jewish)
  • Yuri Lotman (1922–1993), semiotician (Jewish)
  • Richard Karlovich Maack (1825–1886), geographer, botanist, Siberian explorer, educator
  • Sulev Mäeltsemees (born 1947), public administration theorist
  • Friedrich Martens (1845–1909), diplomat, international lawyer
  • Viktor Masing (1925–2001), ecologist
  • Harri Moora (1900–1968), archaeologist
  • Julia Nosov (born 1982), economist
  • Ragnar Nurkse (1907–1959), economist
  • Pent Nurmekund (1905–1997), linguist
  • Ernst Öpik (1893–1985), astronomer
  • Karl Orviku (1903–1981), geologist
  • Jaak Panksepp (born 1943), psychologist, ethologist, neuroscientist
  • Erast Parmasto (1928–2012), mycologist
  • Georg Friedrich Parrot (1767–1852)
  • Johann Friedrich Parrot (1791–1841), physician, explorer
  • Johannes Piiper (1882–1973), zoologist
  • Jaan Puhvel (born 1932), linguist
  • Ludvig Puusepp (1875–1942), medical scientist, neurosurgeon
  • Gustav Ränk (1902–1998), ethnologist
  • Anto Raukas (born 1935), geologist
  • Georg Wilhelm Richmann (1711–1753), physicist
  • Hillar M. Rootare (born 1928), chemist
  • Mart Saarma (born 1949), molecular biologist
  • Thomas Seebeck (1770–1831), physicist
  • Otto Wilhelm von Struve (1819–1905), astronomer (ethnic German)
  • Svante Pääbo (born 1955), paleogeneticist (Sweden, Germany)
  • Eduard von Toll (1858–1902?/unknown), geologist, Arctic explorer
  • Endel Tulving (born 1927), psychologist
  • Jakob von Uexküll (1864–1944), biologist, semiotician (ethnic German)
  • Voldemar Vaga (1899–1999), art historian
  • Lauri Vaska (born 1925), chemist (USA)
  • Mihkel Veske (1843–1890), linguist, poet
  • Gustav Vilbaste (1885–1967), botanist
  • Edgar de Wahl (Edgar von Wahl, 1867–1948), teacher, creator of Interlingue

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