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Nationality
  
Lithuanian

Alma mater
  
Role
  
Astronomer


Name
  
Gunaras Kakaras

Known for
  
Stars Photometry

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Born
  
8 January 1939 (age 85) Padaiciai, near Birzai, Lithuania (
1939-01-08
)

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Gunaras Imantas Kakaras (born 8 January 1939, Padaičiai near Biržai) is a Lithuanian astronomer, founder and director of Lithuanian Museum of Ethnocosmology. He is widely known in Lithuania and Post-Soviet states as a scientist, advocating and popularising Lithuanian ethnic culture along with astronomy.

Contents

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In 1967, he published his first book Šimtas astronomijos mįslių (A Hundred Mysteries of Astronomy). In 1977, together with Algimantas Ažusienis and Antanas Juška, Kakaras released a textbook Astrofizika. His field of interests has evolved into unique concept of ethnocosmology. This new idea was widely supported in Lithuania, and resulted in establishing Lithuanian Museum of Ethnocosmology in 1990, which was built near Molėtai Astronomical Observatory, and until now is led by Kakaras himself.

Gunaras Kakaras ELTA foto

Publications

  1. G. Kakaras, "Šimtas astronomijos mįslių", Vaga, Vilnius, Lithuania, 1967
  2. G. Kakaras, A. Ažusienis and A. Juška, "Astrofizika", Textbook, Vilnius, Lithuania, 1977

References

Gunaras Kakaras Wikipedia