Famous Greeks
Greeks are a special example in history they have a glorious past but they dont live in the past. They are powerful, even today. And they will always be. Greeks distinguished everywhere and always be FAMOUS and useful citizens of the world.
One of the most cited scientists in Latin America
[:el] Constantino Tsallis is a naturalized Brazilian physicist working in Rio de Janeiro at CBPF, Brazil and introduced the notion of what is known as Tsallis entropy and Tsallis statistics in his 1988 paper “Possible generalization of Boltzmann–Gibbs statistics” published in the Journal of Statistical...
Among the world’s 100 most influential people
[:el] Jamie Dimon, one of the most powerful people of the world in finance and the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, the largest of the Big Four American banks, and was named four times by the TIME magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in...
Real estate mogul in U.S.
[:el] George Argyros is the Founder of Arnel & Affiliates and he is among the richest people in the US. Forbes Magazine includes him in its wealth lists every year. He is a former United States Ambassador to Spain, a real estate investor and the owner...
Teaching in MIT since 26 years old
[:el] Dimitris Bertsimas is the Boeing Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management, a Professor of Operations Research, and the Co-Director of the Operations Research Center at MIT. “Greek universities lack in moral, optimism, and faith that through hard work the greek academic community can...
One of the top Nuclear Engineers in the world
[:el] Lefteris Tsoukalas is considered to be one of the five best Nuclear Engineers in the world. While he grew up in Greece, his talent was fully acknowledged in America, where he graduated from the University. He believes deeply that Greece could defeat the economic...
One of the World’s most influential scientific minds
[:el] Paul Pavlou was named by Thomson Reuters as one of World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds, in its list of highly cited researchers in June 2014. This distinction was given to Pavlou for his citations of his work in a 10-year period, between 2002-2012. The...
Studies the global impact of the Greek mythology
[:el] Andromache Karanika is an Associate Professor of Classics at the University of California, Irvine. She worked at the same university as an Assistant Professor from 2006-2012. “The most attractive element about Greek mythology is the idea and ideal of a journey. Greek mythology is...
The Greek astrophysicist with an asteroid named after him
[:el] The meaning of success is quite relative. For a Hollywood actor, having a star with his name on the famous Avenue surely counts for something. But did you also know that astrophysicists have actual stars named after them? For example, the Greek astrophysicist Kleomenis...
The “father” of modern biomimetics
Michael Triantafyllou is the “William I. Koch Professor of Marine Technology” at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the Director of the Center for Ocean Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Director at the “Chevron-MIT University Partnership Program” and and Director of...
The originator of World Down Syndrome Day
[:el] Prof. Stylianos Antonarakis is currently Professor and Chairman of Genetic Medicine at the University of Geneva Medical School in Switzerland and he is also the originator of World Down Syndrome Day. On 21 March 2006, the World Down Syndrome Day is established by the...