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Among the highest earning college chancellors

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Nicholas S. Zeppos (born 1954) is the eighth Chancellor of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. According to Forbes magazine, Zeppos ranks 5th in the Highest Earning College Chancellors list, with salary rising to $2.23 million. He was born in 1954 in Milwaukee and has 2 brothers. His Athens born grandfather migrated to...

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Research on the transformation of bad fat into good fat

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The transformation mechanism of bad white fat cells into good brown fat cells in a living organism was recently discovered by a group of scientists joined by a Greek biologist at the Federal Institute of Technology–ETH in Zurich. Aliki Perdikari together with her fellow scientists...

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The prophet and visionary of the Internet

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Born in November 5th , 1936 in Athens, Michael Dertouzos felt the cruelty of war, hunger and misery, being the family’s head, as named by his father Leonidas, a naval officer from Andros, who was often away from home on a duty mission either to...

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A pioneer in the planet’s energy sustainability research

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Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos is Professor of Chemical Engineering in Tufts University and Director of Nanocatalysis and Energy Laboratory. Her pioneering research on clean energy production was honoured with Robert and Marcy Haber Endowed Professorship in Energy Sustainability in the School of Engineering (SOE). The goal of...

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The pioneer researcher who saved millions of women

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Georgios Papanikolaou, the son of the Kymi based doctor Nikolaos Papanikolaou and later Mayor and Deputy of Evia and Karystia, demonstrated his aptitude for science since his early age. After concluding his high school studies, he enrolled in the Medicine School of the University of...

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Following a revolutionary method against retinoblastoma

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Doris Hadjistilianou is a Greek doctor and head of the Unit of Ophthalmic Oncology at Santa Maria alle Scotte Clinic in Siena. She follows a revolutionary therapeutic method against retinoblastoma, the most common of ophthalmologic pediatric tumors. She’s also an expert in eye oncology, pediatric...

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Explorer in the paths of human consciousness

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[:el] Manos Tsakiris is a Professor of Psychology in the Royal Holloway and in the Bedford New College. The European Research Council (ERC) announced the awarding of its Consolidator Grants for 2016 to 314 top researchers from 39 nationalities in Europe, among them was M. Tsakiris....

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Oncology Professor and expert in cancer diagnostics

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[:el] Dr Nickolas Papadopoulos is an Oncology Professor at the Kimmel Cancer Center of Johns Hopkins University and Director of Translational Genetics at the Hopkins’ Ludwig Center. He is considered to be an international expert in cancer diagnostics. He gained worldwide popularity for discovering the...

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The inventor of the revolutionary ophthalmokinesis dyslexia diagnostic test

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George Pavlidis is Professor of Learning Disabilities at the University of Macedonia, Clinical Professor at the Department of Psychiatry of Penn State University in the United States and life member of the International Academy of Learning Disabilities Research. He has also been Chairman of all global...

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An academic UN reporter

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[:el] Fragkiska Megaloudi started her career on a quite different professional path and schedule. She studied Archaeology and Art History at the School of Philosophy of the Kapodistrian University of Athens and also Medieval History in France. Thanks to her infatuation with France rather than...

Among the highest earning college chancellors

Research on the transformation of bad fat into good fat

The prophet and visionary of the Internet

A pioneer in the planet’s energy sustainability research

The pioneer researcher who saved millions of women

Following a revolutionary method against retinoblastoma

Explorer in the paths of human consciousness

Oncology Professor and expert in cancer diagnostics

The inventor of the revolutionary ophthalmokinesis dyslexia diagnostic test

An academic UN reporter

Maria Plyta – The First Greek Woman Director Who Opened New Paths in Greek Cinema

Dr Demetrios G. Vavvas – The Greek Retina Surgeon at Harvard Who...

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Alexandros Kyriakopoulos – From Greece to Boston, guided by discipline and soul

Yannis Ritsos – The poet of Romiossyni

Panagiotis Karaiskos – From the darkness of addiction to the light of...

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