Contemporary Great Greeks
The current section will focus on contemporary Greeks that we regard of having proven themselves to be worthy of being considered the successors of the light that has been sparked by their Greek ancestors.
Their lifelong contributions, in the area of their expertise (science, music, entrepreneurship etc.), have made them to stand apart and above the rest. Some of them are still alive while others (unfortunately) did pass away.
Below is the list of the great contemporary Greeks and their biography.
Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou is a Greek composer of electronic, ...
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Dimitri Nanopoulos (Greek: Δημήτρης Νανόπουλος; born 13 September 1948 in Athens) ...
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Georgios Papanikolaou was a Greek pioneer in cytopathology and early cancer detection, and inventor of the "Pap smear" ...
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Aris Poulianos (born on July 24, 1924, in Ikaria) is a Greek anthropologist and archaeologist...
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Constantin Carathéodory (Κωνσταντίνος Καραθεοδωρής), Greek-German mathematician who was ...
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Manolis Andronikos was a Greek archaeologist and a professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki...
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Chryssa Kouveliotou (born in 1953) is recognised worldwide for her work in high-energy astrophysics...
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Stamatios (Tom) M. Krimigis is a Greek-American scientist in space exploration...
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Demetrios Christodoulou is a Greek mathematician and physicist, who first became well known for...
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Fotis Kafatos is a Greek biologist. Between 2005-2010 he was the founding president of ...
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John Iliopoulos is a Greek physicist and the first person to present the Standard Model of...
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Andreas Mandelis is a professor and researcher in the department of Mechanical and ...
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Nicholas Metropolis (June 11, 1915 – October 17, 1999) was a physicist and mathematician ...
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Paul Alivisatos (born 1959) is an American scientist of Greek descent who has been hailed as a...
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Stylianos Antonarakis (born 1951) is a Greece-born human geneticist. Antonarakis is Professor and...
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Tom Maniatis (born May 8, 1943), is a Greek-American professor of molecular and cellular biology...
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Yiannis Chryssomallis, known professionally as Yanni, is a Greek composer, keyboardist, pianist, and ...
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READ MORE: ANCIENT GREAT SCIENTISTS
This section focuses on Ancient Greek Scientists like Mathematicians, Astronomers, Physicists, Biologists and so forth.
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