Richard Villems (born 28 November 1944 in Pärnu) is an

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

n geneticist. From 2004 to 2014, he was President of

Estonian Academy of Sciences Founded in 1938, the Estonian Academy of Sciences ( et, Eesti Teaduste Akadeemia) is Estonia's national academy of science in Tallinn. As with other national academies, it is an independent group of well-known scientists whose stated aim is to ...

. From 2009 to 2014, he was Director of

Estonian Biocentre The Estonian Biocentre (EBC; et, Eesti Biokeskus) is a genetics and genomics research institute located in Tartu, Estonia. It's a joint venture between the University of Tartu and the National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics. The ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Villems, Richard Living people 1944 births Estonian geneticists Estonian scholars University of Tartu alumni Academic staff of the University of Tartu Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 2nd Class Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 3rd Class People from Pärnu