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.
Breakthrough in research on human origins
Professor Harvati heads the Paleoanthropology working group at the Institute of Prehistory and Medieval Archaology and the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment. She is a leading authority on human evolution, using the latest analytic methods – such as virtual anthropology. Her research focuses...
Low profile with a Pulitzer in his collection
[:el]American Writer of Greek origin, Jeffrey Eugenides was born on 8th of March in 1960 in Detroit, Michigan. His father’s parents immigrated to America from Asia Minor, while his mother has Irish roots. He graduated with honors from Brown University and got a postgraduate degree...
“My Greek is so sloppy that I am … «ashameding»”!
She was born 79 years ago in Lowell Massachusetts, from a Greek immigrants’ family with immense political action. Dukakis though she received rich studies, she has been devoted to the seventh art, however, she continues to develop vigorously act as an activist, with particular sensitivity...
The inventor of the “Hundred-Dollar Laptop ‘ (One Laptop per child Association)
Michael Bletsas is a computer scientist and inventor of the «Hundred Dollar Laptop» (HDL). He was born in 19th of March in 1967 in Chania, Crete. He studied electrical engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Then he went to the U.S. for postgraduate studies...
He promotes the “Innovation Made in Greece”
Vasilis Makios was born in Kavala in 31st of December in 1938. He received his diploma in Electrical Engineering from the University of Munich, West Germany in 1962 and his Ph.D (Dr. Ing.) from the Max Planck Institut fur Plasmaphysik Garching and the University of...
The “cartographer” of the genome of one thousand people
When in 2000 Aris Patrinos and Craig Veder stood next to the U.S. president, Bill Clinton announcing the decoding of human genome, the achievement was only related to the «alphabet» of the code that creates life. In decoding the “grammar” code, we had to wait...
A Cretan scientist in the fight against Parkinson and Alzheimer’s disease
Professor Nicholas D. Mazarakis holds the Lucas-Lee chair of Molecular BioMedicine and is head of Gene Therapy in Brain Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London. He is a molecular neuroscientist with an international reputation in gene therapy of neurological diseases. Nicholas Mazarakis is from Crete....
Proved that happiness is contagious
[:el] Nicholas Christakis is a social scientist and physician who conducts research on social factors that affect health, health care, and longevity. He directs the Human Nature Lab at Yale University, and is the Co-Director of the Yale Institute for Network Science. He is the Sol...
A philosopher in action
[:el]Theodosis Tassios is a Professor of the National Technical University of Athens, Member of the Academy of Sciences of Turin (Italy), doctor honoris causa of Liege University, of University of Nanjing and the Democritus University. He served as expert and consultant of U. Nations organizations...
Exceeding the bounds of science and devoted to Orthodoxy
The Metropolitan of Mesogaea and Lavraeotica was born in 13th of April in 1954 in Thessaloniki. He studied physics at the University of Thessaloniki and he continued his studies at Harvard and MIT (USA) where he obtained his graduate degrees and doctorate. He worked as...