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[:el] Mercouri Kanatzidis is a Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University and Senior Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. Kanatzidis was listed as one of the most cited researchers in Materials Science and Engineering...

Greek blood runs through my veins

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[:el] Greek American biologist Tom Maniatis is widely recognized by the international academic community for his excellent research on recombinant DNA and human genes cloning and he is also one of seven scientists awarded with the internationally prestigious Lasker-Koshland Achievement Award in Medical Science. Tom...

Synthesizing waves of light

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[:el] Dr Eleftherios Goulielmakis is head of the research group Attoelectronics at the Institute of Quantum Optics Max Plank, based at Munich in Germany. In 2012, he was awarded the Gustav Hertz Award by the German Physical Society, an award honouring and encouraging young physicists...

The Greek Bond girl

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[:el]In 2008, Tonia Sotiropoulou relocated from Athens to London to pursue her acting career. Four years later, she was casted for the role of the Bond girl in the James Bond sequel Skyfall. Tonia was born on April 28, 1987. She studied acting at Yorgos...

An inspiration travelling from Greece to China

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Greek mechanical engineer Yannis Sahsamanoglou, 39, constructed the first solar elevator in the world. The patent is already selling abroad by dozens, like in Europe, Singapore, Egypt, India and China. The market demand rate is currently higher than the production rate of the Sahsamanoglou’s small...

The immunologist who pioneers in the treatment of Type 1 Diabetes

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[:el] Dimitris Skokos is the head of the Immunology and Inflammatory Department of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals as well as an adjunct faculty Professor in the Rockefeller University. He has been chosen among the 40 best scientists below 40 years old in the United States, being the...

A “guru” of computer science

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[:el] Chris Papadimitriou is a Greek theoretical computer scientist, and professor of Computer Science at the University of California, since 1996. He was born on August 16, 1949 in Athens. His parents come from two small towns in Arcadia, in Peloponnese. He studied at the...

A modern explorer of the stars

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[:el] Thanasis Economou is an astrophysicist at the University of Chicago and a NASA Senior Planetary Scientist. He has been building instruments for interplanetary spacecraft since the mid-1960s. Currently he is associated with three robotic interplanetary missions: the Mars Exploration Rovers, the Cassini mission to Saturn,...

Breakthrough in research on human origins

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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...

International recognition for the fighter against cancer

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