Dimitri Nanopoulos

Dimitri V. Nanopoulos
Born	13 September 1948 Athens, Greece
Residence	United States
Nationality	Greek
Fields	Physicist
Institutions	Texas A&M University École Normale Supérieure Harvard University NASA CERN
Alma mater	University of Athens University of Sussex
Doctoral advisor	Norman Dombey
Known for	High energy physics
Notable awards	Onassis International Prize Enrico Fermi Prize (Italian Physical Society, 2009)

Dimitri Nanopoulos (Greek: Δημήτρης Νανόπουλος; 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 35,800 times over across a number of separate branches of science.[1]

Nanopoulos, of Aromanian ancestry from Northern Epirus,^[1] (now southern Albania), was born and raised in Athens. 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 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 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 588 original papers, including 13 books. He has over 35,800 citations, placing him as the fourth most cited High Energy Physicist of all time, according to the 2001 and 2004 census^{[citation needed]}. 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.

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.^[2] It was further described in a 1984 paper by Nanopoulos, J. P. Deredinger, and J.E Kim^[3] and a 1987 paper by Nanopoulos, I. Antoniadis, John Ellis, and John Hagelin.^[4][5]

On 17 October 2006 he was awarded the Onassis International prize by the Alexander S. 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.

See also

• Quantum Aspects of Life
• Penguin diagram

External links

• Role of Nanopoulos in naming GUT
• Dimitri Nanopoulos and the speed of light
• Nanopoulos, Dimitri V. at ISIHighlyCited.com

References

1. ^ Από τη Βόρειο Ηπειρο στο Σύμπαν: (in Greek) «Οχι, δεν είμαι Πελοποννήσιος. Γεννήθηκα και μεγάλωσα στην Αθήνα, αλλά είμαι Βορειοηπειρώτης και μάλιστα Βλάχος. Νάκας ήταν το αυθεντικό επώνυμο του παππού μου προτού φύγουμε από την Αλβανία»
2. ^ S. M. Barr, Phys. Lett. B112 (1982) 219
3. ^ J. P. Deredinger, J. E. Kim, D. V. Nanopoulos, Phys. Lett. B139 (1984) 170
4. ^ I. Antoniadis, J. Ellis, J. Hagelin and D.V. Nanopoulos, Phys.Lett. B194 (1987) 231
5. ^ Stenger, Victor J., Quantum Gods: Creation, Chaos and the Search for Cosmic Consciouness, Prometheus Books (2009) ISBN-10: 1591027136 ISBN-13: 978-1591027133 p 61.

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Name	Nanopoulos, Dimitris
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Date of birth	13 September 1948
Place of birth	Athens, Greece
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