Dimitri Nanopoulos
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| Dimitri Nanopoulos | |
| Born | 13 September 1948 Athens, Greece |
|---|---|
| Residence |  USA |
| Nationality |  Greek |
| Fields | Physicist |
| Institutions | Texas A&M University Ecole Normale Superieure Harvard University NASA CERN |
| Alma mater | University of Athens University of Sussex |
| Doctoral advisor | Norman Dombey |
| Doctoral students | Andreas Mershin Herbert Karl Dreiner Subhendra Mohanty Alon Eliyahou Faraggi Joel Walker Ching-Ming Chen Van Eric Mayes |
| Known for | High energy physics |
| Notable awards | Onassis International Prize |
Dimitri Nanopoulos (born 13 September 1948 in Athens) is a Greek physicist. He is one of the most regularly cited researchers in the world, cited more than 33,000 times over across a number of separate branches of science.[1]
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 Ph.D. in 1973 in High Energy Physics. He has been a Research Fellow at the Center of European Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland and for many years has been a staff member and Research Fellow at the Ecole Normale Superieure, in Paris, France and at Harvard University, Cambridge, United States. In 1989, he was elected Professor at the Department of Physics, at the NASA-supported Texas A&M 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. 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, CERN, and to the European Space Agency (ESA).
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 540 original papers, including 13 books. He has over 33,000 citations, placing him as the fourth most cited High Energy Physicist of all time, according to the 2001 and 2004 census. Since 1988 he has been fellow of the American Physical Society, and since 1992 member of the Italian Physical Society. In 1996, he was made Commander of the Order of Honour of the Greek State.
With his colleagues John Hagelin, a former U.S presidential candidate, and the British physicist John Ellis he derived the flipped SU(5) model of the unification of forces from heterotic string.
On 17 October 2006 he was awarded the Onassis International prize by the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation.
