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Vicky Kalogera wins 2018 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics

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[:el] Greek astrophysicist Vicky Kalogera has been awarded the 2018 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics for her groundbreaking work studying compact objects — including black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs — in astrophysical systems. The award, administered by the American Institute of Physics (AIP)...
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Studies Saturn’s aurorae

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[:el] Aikaterini Radioti is a researcher at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Planetary Physics (LPAP) in the Department of Astrophysics, Geophysics and Oceanography (AGO) at the University of Liège. Aikaterini Radioti was born in Ptolemaida, Greece, in 1980. She studied Physics in the Aristotle University...
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Unlocks the secrets of the Universe

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[:el] Vicky Kalogera is director of Northwestern’s Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) and the Erastus O. Haven Professor of Physics and Astronomy in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. Her research focuses on the physics of compact astrophysical objects, specifically...
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Internationally renowned radio astronomer

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[:el] Dr. Tasso Tzioumis is an internationally renowned radio astronomer, researcher at the CSIRO’s department of Australia Telescope National Facility and the Australian Government representative at the International Telecommunication Union in Geneva. He is the initiator and organizer of the important International Radio Astronomy Conference...
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Detected the elusive space wind moving around the Earth

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[:el] Iannis Dandouras is Research Physicist at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), at the IRAP laboratory (Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie) in Toulouse, France, and Principal Investigator of the CIS experiment onboard the four Cluster spacecraft of ESA. His research interests...
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Astrophysicist researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

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[:el] Demosthenes Kazanas is an astrophysicist researcher working at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. In 1980s, he was one of the first people to mention the idea of cosmological inflation, a theory of the exponential expansion of space in the early universe. Recently, he was...
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Among the scientists who confirmed Einstein’s gravitational waves

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[:el] Mairi Sakellariadou is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the King’s College in London and is one among the scientists in the team that made first direct detection of gravitational waves. The scientific team confirmed Einstein’s theory of general relativity and opened up a...
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Detected Super-Earth atmosphere for the first time

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[:el] For the first time astronomers were able to analyse the atmosphere of an exoplanet in the class known as super-Earths. Using data gathered with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and new analysis techniques, the exoplanet 55 Cancri e is revealed to have a dry...
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Greek astrophysicist awarded with the Hans Bethe Prize

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[:el] 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...
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Director of Research in the National Centre for Scientific Research of France

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[:el] Athena Coustenis is Deputy Director of the new Europlanet Society, Director of Research 1st class with the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) of France, working at Paris Observatory in Meudon, Paris. She collaborates with the European Space Agency (ESA) as also with NASA...

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