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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...
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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...
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A Greek professor who connects philosophy with everyday life

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[:el] Alexander Nehamas is a professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. He is also Professor of the Humanities and of Comparative Literature. He was born in 1946 in Athens. In 1964, he relocated to the United States to study economics, even though his dream was to study business....
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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...
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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,...
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The “golden” hands of pediatric cardiac surgery

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[:el] He has been characterized as the modern missionary of Medicine and not unfairly. He is not just interested in titles or offices. He was a disciple of Alain Karpentie and Magktni Yaqub, whom he followed closely. Afksentiyos Kalangos is holding the leading position in...
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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...

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