Uno Öpik; 19 October 1926 in Tartu, Estonia - 30 April 2005 in Bath, UK) was an Estonian-born atomic physicist most of whose adult life was spent in Northern Ireland and Great Britain.
[3] In 1943 his father Ernst moved the family to Danzig, and then to Swinemünde and finally to Hamburg.
[3] In 1948 the family moved to Northern Ireland, when his father joined the staff at the Armagh Observatory.
[1] His doctoral students included Raymond Flannery and Hugh Morrison.
[5] Öpik was mainly interested in atomic physics and published over 20 scientific papers in that field.