Background
Nanopoulos, Dimitri was born on September 13, 1948 in Athens, Attiki, Greece. Son of Vaios and Vasiliki Nanopoulos. came to the United States, 1986.
Nanopoulos, Dimitri was born on September 13, 1948 in Athens, Attiki, Greece. Son of Vaios and Vasiliki Nanopoulos. came to the United States, 1986.
He studied Physics at the University of Athens and he graduated in 1971, continuing his studies at the University of Sussex in England, where he obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in 1973 in High Energy Physics.
He is one of the most regularly cited researchers in the world, cited more than 43,200 times over across a number of separate branches of science. He has been a Research Fellow at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (European Organization of Nuclear Research) in Geneva, Switzerland and for many years has been a staff member and Research Fellow at the École Normale Supérieure, in Paris, France and at Harvard University, Cambridge, United States. In 1989, he was elected Professor at the Department of Physics, at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration-supported Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University, where since 1992 he has been a Distinguished Professor of Physics, and since 2002 holder of the Mitchell/Heep Chair in High Energy Physics.
He is also a distinguished HARC fellow at the Houston Advanced Research Center in Houston, Texas.
He has made several contributions to particle physics and cosmology, and works in string unified theories, fundamentals of quantum theory, astroparticle physics and quantum-inspired models of brain function. He has written over 645 original papers, including 14 books
He has over 42,500 citations, placing him as the fourth most cited High Energy Physicist of all time, according to the 2001 and 2004 census. He is one of the principal developers of the flipped SU(5) model, first proposed by Stephen M. Barr in a paper published in 1982.
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On 17 October 2006 he was awarded the Onassis International prize by the Alexander South. Onassis Foundation. On 28 September 2009, he was awarded the 2009 Enrico Fermi Prize from the Italian Physical Society in recognition of his pioneering work in the field of string theory.
Academy of Athens; American Physical Society]
In 1997 he was appointed regular member of the Academy of Athens, and, in 2005, President of the Greek National Council for Research and Technology, Greek National Representative to the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, European Organization of Nuclear Research, and to the European Space Agency (European Space Agency). Since 1988 he has been fellow of the American Physical Society, and since 1992 member of the Italian Physical Society.
Married Myrto Vassiliou, July 27, 1972.