Ljubov A. Rebane (née Chagalova) (September 6, 1929

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

– June 13, 1991

Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ' ...

) was an Estonian

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate caus ...

. She graduated from Leningrad University in 1952 and received a PhD in Physics and Mathematics in 1961 from the same university. She received the

USSR State Prize The USSR State Prize (russian: links=no, Государственная премия СССР, Gosudarstvennaya premiya SSSR) was the Soviet Union's state honor. It was established on 9 September 1966. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, t ...

(Russian: Госуда́рственная пре́мия СССР) in 1986, together with Rein Avarmaa, Anšel Gorohhovski,

Roman Personov Roman Ivanovich Personov (January 4, 1932 – January 17, 2002) was a Soviet and Russian scientist, professor, doctor, one of the founders of selective laser spectroscopy of complex molecules in solids (frozen solutions). He was awarded the Humb ...

, Boris Harlamov, Jevgeni Alšits, Ljudmila Bõkovskaja, Vladimir Maslov, Jaak Kikas and Konstantin Solovjov, for the cycle of articles "High-spectral-resolution spectroscopy and for the persistent spectral hole burning of molecules and solids" (Russian: Авармаа, Рейн Арнольдович, зав. сектором, Гороховский, Аншель Александрович, Кикас, Яак Вернерович, ст. н. с., Альшиц, Евгений Иосифович, Быковская, Людмила Анатольевна, мл. н. с. Института физики АН ЭССР; Маслов, Владимир Григорьевич, ст. н. с. ГОИ имени С. И. Вавилова; Ребане, Любовь Александровна, ст. н. с. ИХБФАН ЭССР; Соловьёв, Константин Николаевич, зав. лабораторией Института физики АН БССР, — за цикл работ «Фотовыжигание стабильных спектральных провалов и гелективная спектроскопия сложных молекул» (1972—1984)).

Family

She married the physicist

Karl Rebane Karl K. Rebane (11 April 1926, in Pärnu – 4 November 2007, in Pärnu) was an Estonian physicist. He studied at the Tallinn Technical University from 1947 to 1949, and graduated from Leningrad University in 1952. Rebane received a PhD in Sol ...

. Their children Aleksander and Inna Rebane both became physicists themselves.

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20th-century Estonian physicists 1929 births 1991 deaths Spectroscopists Estonian women physicists Estonian people of Russian descent 20th-century women scientists {{physicist-stub