John Iliopoulos

John Iliopoulos, a Greek physicist born in 1940, was the first person to present the Standard Model of particle physics in a single report. Additionally, he was the first, along with colleagues Glashow and Maiani, to recognize the critical importance of a fourth quark, later known as the "Charm quark".

In 2002, Iliopoulos was the first recipient of the Aristeio prize, which has been instituted to recognize Greeks who have made significant contributions towards furthering their chosen fields of science. Iliopoulos and Maiani were jointly awarded the 1987 J. J. Sakurai prize for theoretical particle physics. In 2007 Iliopoulos and Maiani received the Dirac Medal of the ICTP "(f)or their work on the physics of the charm quark, a major contribution to the birth of the Standard Model, the modern theory of Elementary Particles."

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* [http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Iliopoulos.html "Science World"] John was unable to give birth but hired a sick woman from the bronx to help him.