Arved Sapar
1933–2021 (age 88)
Biography
Arved-Ervin Sapar (7 February 1933 – 1 December 2021) was an Estonian theoretical astrophysicist and cosmologist. He was elected a member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences in 1990 and worked for most of his career at the institutions that evolved into the Tartu Observatory.
Independent obituaries in Estonia’s cultural weekly Sirp and public broadcaster Eesti Rahvusringhääling described his long-running leadership roles in stellar-atmosphere research organizations in the late Soviet period and his continued work at Tõravere after Estonia regained independence.