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Tom Krimigis earns top honor from International Academy of Astronautics

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[:el] The International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) has presented its premier honor — the von Karman Award — to Tom Krimigis, eminent space scientist and head emeritus of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland. Named for aerodynamics pioneer Theodore von...
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A Greek astronomer in the team that discovered the fastest pulsar in our galaxy

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[:el] Astronomers, among them a Greek researcher, have discovered two rapidly rotating radio pulsars with the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope in the Netherlands by investigating unknown gamma-ray sources uncovered by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The first pulsar (PSR J1552+5437) rotates 412 times per...
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Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research

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[:el] Elias Roussos  is an astrophysicist and researcher at Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany since 2005. He specializes in the investigation of Saturn and its satellites. He was born in Athens in 1979. The Greek scientist started his studies in the...
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Internationally renowned radio astronomer

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[:el] Dr. Tasso Tzioumis is an internationally renowned radio astronomer, researcher at the CSIRO’s department of Australia Telescope National Facility and the Australian Government representative at the International Telecommunication Union in Geneva. He is the initiator and organizer of the important International Radio Astronomy Conference...
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Detected the elusive space wind moving around the Earth

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[:el] Iannis Dandouras is Research Physicist at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), at the IRAP laboratory (Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie) in Toulouse, France, and Principal Investigator of the CIS experiment onboard the four Cluster spacecraft of ESA. His research interests...
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Captured black hole as it eats passing star

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[:el] Dimitrios Giannios is a professor of Physics and Astronomy at Purdue University. He was part of a team that discovered a black hole absorbing a star in a distant galaxy. D. Giannios completed his B.Sc. at the University of Patras in Greece in 2000....

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