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.
She developed the world’s first vaccine against breast cancer
Dr. Vasso Apostolopoulos is a Professor of Immunology and Vice President of Victoria University’s Research Department. She was the world’s first researcher to develop the theory of breast cancer immunotherapy in the early 1990s which is currently used in thousands of laboratories around the world....
The first Director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology
George Efstathiou is an astrophysicist, a professor of Astrophysics and a member of the Royal Society of Sciences, while he has been Director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology and Professor of Astronomy at Oxford University. He is widely trained in theoretical and observational cosmology...
The Astrophysicist behind the first historical photo of a black hole
Dimitris Psaltis is a professor of Astronomy and Physics at the University of Arizona, with his research focusing on testing the theory of general relativity in the strong-field regime. He also works on various aspects of the physics and astrophysics of neutron stars and black...
The Nobel Prize-winning economist and Knight of the British Crown
Sir Christopher Pissarides is Regius Professor at the London School of Economics (LSE), where he also heads the Macroeconomic Research Program at the Center for Economic Performance. He is Professor of European Studies at the University of Cyprus and President of the Council of National...
The astrophysicist who connects philosophy with science
Dr. Minas Kafatos is The Fletcher Jones Endowed Professor of Computational Physics at Chapman University and has nearly 40 years of experience in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and research. During his career, he has even worked at NASA’s Gondar Space Flight Center and has published...
The Greek behind the famous restaurants “Milos”
Costas Spiliadis is a genius entrepreneur who has managed to bring seafood to the forefront of the art of gourmet cuisine and has conquered the top of international gastronomy, having owned the famous Milos restaurants, with all of them have a clientele ranging from celebrities...
He developed the Method Of Splitting Tsunami model
Constantinos Synolakis is a leading tsunami engineer who research over the past three decades about natural disaster management. He was born in Athens in 1956 and studied at the California Institute of Technology. He is Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Southern California...
The Greek who fights against cancer
Dr. Philippos Tsichlis is Professor of Hematology and Oncology and Director of the Institute of Molecular Oncology at the Tufts University Medical School in Boston, United States of America. It belongs to the pioneers who created and applied experimental models using retroviruses to identify and...
The Greek cardiac surgeon who shines in America
Dr. John Elefteriades was born in Philadelphia, USA, by Greek immigrants and he is one of the leading heart surgeons in the United States. Dr. Elefteriades graduated magna cum laude with a triple concentration in Physics, French and Psychology from Yale University. He received his...
The leading Greek scientist of climate change research
Christos Zerefos is the president of the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation, supervisor of the Research Center for Atmospheric Physics and Climatology of the Academy of Athens and former chairman of the International Ozone Commission. Born in Cairo on April 22, 1943, he studied...