Andres Tarand
Sign in to saveEstonian politician, geographer and climatologist (born 1940)
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Spain
- Active from
- 1893-02-21
- Active to
- 1987-06-03
Discography
- Guitar Solos1949
- An Andrés Segovia Program1952
- Guitar Music1952
- Andrés Segovia Plays1954
- Masters of the Guitar (Compositions of Sor and Tarrega)1956
- The Art of Andrés Segovia1956
- Scarlatti - Dowland - Torroba - Giuliani - Narvaez - De Falla - Esplà1962
- Interprète Les Italiens1967
- España1968
- Platero and I / Sonata Romántica1973
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 1
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A new and rapid colorimetric determination of acetylcholinesterase activity
· 1961 · cited 23,211x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,787x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,203x
- The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans
· 2020 · cited 9,180x
- Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults
· 2017 · cited 5,582x
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Key facts
- President
- Lennart Meri
- Preceded by
- Mart Laar
- Succeeded by
- Tiit Vähi
- Prime minister
- Mart Laar
- Born
- ( 1940-01-11 ) 11 January 1940 (age 86) , Tallinn , Estonia
- Party
- Social Democratic Party
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Encyclopedic overview
Andres Tarand (born 11 January 1940) is an Estonian geographer, climatologist and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Estonia from 1994 to 1995. He was also a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Social Democratic Party, part of the Party of European Socialists, between 2004 and 2009.
Tarand was born in Tallinn. His father was poet, philologist, philosopher and cultural figure Helmut Tarand. He graduated from the University of Tartu with a degree in climatology in 1963. After receiving his first degree he continued his studies at Tartu receiving a second degree in geography in 1973. He continued to do research at Tartu, eventually becoming director of research in 1979, to 1981.
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