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Greek scientist has discovered how the brain wakes you up

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[:el] Scientists from Bern, among them the Greek researcher Antoine Adamantidis, have discovered a mechanism which is responsible for the rapid arousal from sleep and anesthesia in the brain. The results of their study suggest new strategies for the medical treatment of sleep disorders and...
Achievements

Australia’s first Chair in High Performance Architecture

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[:el] International built environment expert and Professor of Energy Physics Mattheos Santamouris has been appointed UNSW’s inaugural Anita Lawrence Chair in High Performance Architecture. The University of New South Wales is one of Australia’s leading research and teaching universities. The Anita Lawrence Chair in High Performance Architecture is the...
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Greek detects Jupiter-like storm on small, cool star

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[:el] Astronomers, led by a Greek researcher, have discovered what appears to be a tiny star with a giant, cloudy storm, using data from NASA’s Spitzer and Kepler space telescopes. The dark storm is akin to Jupiter’s Great Red Spot: a persistent, raging storm larger...
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Greek mathematician receives the Wiener Prize

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[:el] 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.”...
Famous Greeks

The man who invented “artificial skin”

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[:el] Professor Ioannis V. Yannas is a Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering at MIT University. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences (Institute of Medicine) and the Association for the Advancement of Science, a founding fellow of the American Institute...
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He fights against Alzheimer disease

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[:el]Dr. Nikolaos Scarmeas is an associate professor of Neurology at the Department of Neurology at Columbia University in the United States and is involved in clinical, teaching and research activities in the Department of Neurology and the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at Columbia Presbyterian Medical...
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One of the most cited scientists in Latin America

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[:el] Constantino Tsallis is a naturalized Brazilian physicist working in Rio de Janeiro at CBPF, Brazil and introduced the notion of what is known as Tsallis entropy and Tsallis statistics in his 1988 paper “Possible generalization of Boltzmann–Gibbs statistics” published in the Journal of Statistical...

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