The Greeks who excelled globally in December
For yet another month Greeks from all over the world, managed to excel, to abolish the borders and make us proud with their achievements. The ellines.com team chose 5 of them, who during the month December caused international sensation with the work and personality.
1.YANNIS BEHRAKIS
This year the Guardian picture desk has chosen Yannis Behrakis of Reuters as the agency photographer of the year. Here are the most astonishing moments he captured in two of the biggest stories of 2015 – the refugee crisis and the financial implosion in his home country Greece. Read more…
2. CONSTANTINE DAFERMOS
Constantine M. Dafermos of Brown University will receive the 2016 Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics. Presented by the AMS and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), the prize honors Dafermos “for his foundational work in partial differential equations and continuum physics.” Read more…
The White House has announced that Paul Alivisatos, director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), award-winning chemist and internationally recognized authority on the fabrication of nanocrystals and their use in solar energy applications, has won the National Medal of Science, the nation’s highest honor for lifetime achievement in fields of scientific research. Read more…
4. VICKY KALOGERA
Northwestern University astrophysicist Vicky Kalogera won the 2016 Hans A. Bethe Prize from the American Physics Society (APS). The top-level astrophysics and nuclear physics prize recognizes outstanding work in theory, experiment or observation in the areas of astrophysics, nuclear physics, nuclear astrophysics or closely related fields. Read more…
5. EVANGELOS GRAGOUDAS
Evangelos Gragoudas is included in the list of the top 100 ophthalmologists in the world. He has won the Champalimaud Vision Award 2014, which is considered the Nobel for eye research. There is a professorship under his name in Harvard University, his portrait is placed in the amphitheatre of the Massachusett Eye and Ear Clinic, and his bust graces its courtyard. Read more…
*Greek scientists, scholars, politicians, artists, journalists, businessmen, athletes, artists, painters, policemen, photographers, actors, managers constantly emerge through investigative journalism and the invaluable help of ellines.com community members. Each month, we will present 5 of the most important Greeks, considering the influence of their work and the readability of their page on ellines.com.
