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.
The Greek voice behind the microphone of Amsterdam Municipal Radio
Hellas Pindakass -meaning peanut butter made in Greece- is the original title of a new Greek radio show, broadcasting in the Dutch frequencies of 99.4 Mhz of the Amsterdam Municipal Radio Salto/Wereld FM. Nikko Koulousios, a Greek journalist with roots in Salonica, is the brain...
A Greek professor who connects philosophy with everyday life
[:el] Alexander Nehamas is a professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. He is also Professor of the Humanities and of Comparative Literature. He was born in 1946 in Athens. In 1964, he relocated to the United States to study economics, even though his dream was to study business....
Ranked among the top 5 chemists of the past decade
[:el] Dr. Paul Alivisatos is a distinguished Professor of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and former Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). He also directs the Kavli Energy Nanosciences Institute (ENSI), and holds professorships in UC Berkeley’s departments of materials science and chemistry. In...
A “guru” of computer science
[:el] Chris Papadimitriou is a Greek theoretical computer scientist, and professor of Computer Science at the University of California, since 1996. He was born on August 16, 1949 in Athens. His parents come from two small towns in Arcadia, in Peloponnese. He studied at the...
He Consolidated homeopathy in Greece
George Vithoulkas is an International teacher of Classical Homeopathy, honoured with the alternative Nobel Prize (The Right Livelihood Award) for his work in the field of Classical Homeopathy. He was born in 1932 in Athens. He began studying Homeopathy in 1960 in South Africa. He...
He thinks like German, he feels like Greek
Many European politicians and economists react to the idea of direct financial aid to Greece and one of the possible surrogates for the supervision of the Greek economy, the German MEP Chatzimarkakis George, says that the Greek people can not imagine the economic impact they...
From mathematics to fiction, to arts and to Logicomix
Greek writer and director, Apostolos Doxiadis was born in Brisbane Australia in 1953 and grew up in Greece. Despite his initial interest in the novel and the arts, early in his life, «a sudden sensual attraction to maths» –as he says – led him to...
A modern explorer of the stars
[:el] Thanasis Economou is an astrophysicist at the University of Chicago and a NASA Senior Planetary Scientist. He has been building instruments for interplanetary spacecraft since the mid-1960s. Currently he is associated with three robotic interplanetary missions: the Mars Exploration Rovers, the Cassini mission to Saturn,...
From Chios to the endless Universe
[:el] Dr. Stamatis M. Krimigis has a long and distinguished career as a tutor and pioneer researcher involved in experiments in the most important space programs of USA as well as of the international scientific community. He served as Chair of the National Council of...
The Greek-American who revealed the annual slaughter of 23,000 dolphins
[:el] L. Psihoyos was born in America by immigrant parents. His origins are from Sparta in Peloponnesos. Photography has always been his greatest love. He first started photography as a hobby and then it turned to be his profession. His pictures were used by hundreds...