# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/uuno-opik
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:35:57.817Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/uuno-opik"
name: "Uuno Öpik"
slug: "uuno-opik"
description: "Uuno Öpik was an Estonian-born atomic physicist most of whose adult life was spent in Northern Ireland and Great Britain. He was one of six children of Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist Ernst Öpik. His son is the British politician Lembit Öpik."
tagline: "English atomic physicist of Estonian origin (1926-2005)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1926-10-19"
deathDate: "2005-04-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.68
  momentum:             0
  historical:           2.206588
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  51
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uuno_%C3%96pik"
    title: "Uuno Öpik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uuno_%C3%96pik"
    title: "Uuno Öpik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17361947"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations