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The inventor of the “Hundred-Dollar Laptop ‘ (One Laptop per child Association)

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Michael Bletsas is a computer scientist and inventor of the «Hundred Dollar Laptop» (HDL). He was born in 19th of March in 1967 in Chania, Crete. He studied electrical engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Then he went to the U.S. for postgraduate studies...

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One of the founders of the European Research Council

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[:el] Fotis Kafatos was a Professor of Biology, born on the 16th of April, 1940. He was an eminent scientist who played a key role in establishing the European Research Council (ERC). In fact in 2011 he received a prestigious prize for his dedication to...

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A Cretan scientist in the fight against Parkinson and Alzheimer’s disease

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Professor Nicholas D. Mazarakis holds the Lucas-Lee chair of Molecular BioMedicine and is head of Gene Therapy in Brain Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London. He is a molecular neuroscientist with an international reputation in gene therapy of neurological diseases. Nicholas Mazarakis is from Crete....

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Proved that happiness is contagious

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[:el] Nicholas Christakis is a social scientist and physician who conducts research on social factors that affect health, health care, and longevity. He directs the Human Nature Lab at Yale University, and is the Co-Director of the Yale Institute for Network Science. He is the Sol...

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He researches the usefulness of bacteria

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[:el] Nikos Kyrpides is a biologist, a Researcher and Director of the Genomics Biology program at the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Berkeley Lab. He has won many international awards and he was also included in the Thomson Reuters list with the most important...

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Greek physicist who has been honored with the Sakurai Prize

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[:el] Savas Dimopoulos is a distinguished professor of Particle Physics at Stanford University, in fact he started teaching there at the age of 28. He is one of the 2 Greek physicists having been awarded with the Sakurai Prize as a recognition and encouragement to his...

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The Rhodian Dean in Victoria University of Melbourne

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[:el] George Pappas is the fourth Chancellor of Victoria University in Melbourne and had been previously the Chairman of the Committee for Melbourne. George Pappas AO became the fourth Chancellor of Victoria University on 1 January 2010. His term as Chancellor will cease on 31 December...

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Physics flows in his Gene

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[:el] Born in Athens on 13th of September in 1948 and he is origin is from Argos. He studied physics at the Athens University and continued his studies at the University of Sussex in England where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1973 in High Energy...

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A genius and one of the brightest minds in the world

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Konstantinos Daskalakis, an assistant professor at MIT, is the scientist who solved within a year Nash’s “riddle” (John Forbes Nash), the equation all mathematicians around the world had been trying to solve for 60 years without success. For his thesis, he has been honored by...

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The long and tireless journey towards the better understanding of human genes

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[ Manolis Kellis studied Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at MIT, where he now teaches as adjunct Professor. He works at the famous Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and teaches “Computational Biology: Genomes, Networks, Evolution (6.895/6.085)”. His research looks into better comprehending human genes...

The inventor of the “Hundred-Dollar Laptop ‘ (One Laptop per child Association)

One of the founders of the European Research Council

A Cretan scientist in the fight against Parkinson and Alzheimer’s disease

He researches the usefulness of bacteria

Greek physicist who has been honored with the Sakurai Prize

The Rhodian Dean in Victoria University of Melbourne

Physics flows in his Gene

A genius and one of the brightest minds in the world

The long and tireless journey towards the better understanding of human genes

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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