What is Juris Ekmanis?
{{Infobox person | name = Juris Ekmanis | image = Juris Ekmanis 2012.jpg | caption = Ekmanis in 2012 | birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1941|12|2}} | birth_place = [[Riga]], [[Reichskomissariat Ostland]] (Now: [[Latvia]]) | death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|4|9|1941|12|2|df=y}} | death_place = Riga, Latvia | death_cause = Complications from a [[stroke]] | occupation = [[Physicist]] | spouse = | movement = | alma mater = [[Riga Polytechnical Institute]] }} '''Juris Ekmanis''', (2 December 1941 – 9 April 2016) was a [[Latvia]]n educator and physicist. He was the President of [[Latvian Academy of Sciences]] from 2004 through 2012.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lza.lv/scientists/ekmanis.htm |title=Juris Ekmanis |publisher=[[Latvian Academy of Sciences]] |access-date=2010-11-08 |archive-date=2013-07-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130701203926/http://www.lza.lv/scientists/ekmanis.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was appointed Junior Research Associate at the [[Riga Polytechnical Institute]] from 1961 to 1986, and Professor from 1986 to 1994. He was visiting professor at [[Cornell University]] ([[Ithaca]]), [[Iowa State University]] ([[Ames, Iowa|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]]. Ekmanis died of complications from a [[stroke]] in [[Riga]], Latvia on 9 April 2016, aged 74.<ref>[http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/latvia/ushel-iz-zhizni-byvshij-prezident-latvijskoj-akademii-nauk-yuris-ekmanis.d?id=47296499 Ушел из жизни бывший президент Латвийской академии наук Юрис Экманис] {{in lang|ru}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Ekmanis, Juris}} [[Category:1941 births]] [[Category:2016 deaths]] [[Category:Latvian scientists]] [[Category:Physicists]] [[Category:Latvian educators]] {{bio-stub}}