Ülo Kaevats, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Estonian statesman, academic, and philosopher
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Place of Birth: Tallinn, Estonia
About Ülo Kaevats
- Ülo Kaevats (29 September 1947 – 30 January 2015) was an Estonian statesman, academic and philosopher. In 1972, he graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Chemistry of the University of Tartu with a qualification from a physicist and a research philosopher.
- Kaevats held a PhD from Vilnius State University in Lithuania.
- He served for many years (1989–1992, 1995–2000) as Editor-in-Chief of the Estonian Encyclopaedia, the main national work of reference; earlier, he worked as a research fellow at the Estonian and the USSR Academies of Sciences, mostly in the History of Science field.
- Until 2011, when he became emeritus, he was Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Tallinn University of Technology (TUT).
- As a scholar, Kaevats specialized in the Philosophy of Science and the Philosophy of Technology. Between 1992 and 1995, during the beginning and re-establishment of independent Estonia, Kaevats served as Secretary of State (Riigisekretär; the most senior civil servant with Constitutional rank) of the Republic.He died on 30 January 2015.
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