physics

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He created the fastest electronic signal

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The creation of the fastest electronic signal ever achieved in history was recently achieved by a team of scientists in Germany. The team was led by Eleftherios Goulielmakis, the inventive homogeneous physicist who has excelled abroad in recent years and is breaking new ground in...
Famous Greeks

Pioneered in the field of polaritonics

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[:el] Pavlos Lagoudakis is Professor of Physics at the University of Southampton. He is one among the scientists of the research team which has successfully demonstrated that a type of ‘magic dust’ which combines light and matter can be used to solve complex problems and...
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Captured black hole as it eats passing star

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[:el] Dimitrios Giannios is a professor of Physics and Astronomy at Purdue University. He was part of a team that discovered a black hole absorbing a star in a distant galaxy. D. Giannios completed his B.Sc. at the University of Patras in Greece in 2000....
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Breakthrough of the Year the LIGO’s gravitational-wave discovery

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[:el] The Physics World 2016 Breakthrough of the Year goes to “the LIGO Scientific Collaboration for its revolutionary, first-ever direct observations of gravitational waves”. Nine other achievements are highly commended and cover topics ranging from nuclear physics to material science and more. Almost exactly 100...
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Director of the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies

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[:el] John D. Joannopoulos is the director of the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies and Francis Wright Davis Professor of Physics at MIT. The Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies is a team of MIT, Army and industry partners working together to discover and field technologies that dramatically advance...
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Can your computer work with light instead of electricity?

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[:el] A team of scientists, led by a Greek researcher, from the Max Planck Institute (MPI) of Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, the Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, and the Lomonosov Moscow State University report that it takes electrons in krypton atoms slightly more than...
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Searching to discover new galaxies

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[:el] Dr. Leonidas Moustakas is a Research Scientist, astrophysicist, working in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA), being part of the “greek community” of four other scientists, Anezina Solomonidou, Antonis Bloom, Anastasios Petropoulos and Panagiotis Kourdis, that also work there. He is interested in fundamental questions...
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He first foresaw the existence of a fourth quark

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«As far as Physics is concerned, I am far more interested in studying the elementary particles of the matter, than the more composite ones. The first moments in which the universe was created simply fascinate me. The only thing we truly know about the first...
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Pioneer in the novel metamaterials research

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Costas Soukoulis is a distinguished professor of physics at the Iowa State University. Moreover he worked for the Materials Science and Technology Department at the University of Crete (2001-2011) and he is the founder of the Foundation for Research & Technology in Greece. According to...

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