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Efstathiou George |
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Faculty, University of Cambridge |
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1979, Dept. of Physics, Durham University, United Kingdom |
Thesis: |
On the rotation and clustering of galaxies |
Supervisor(s): |
Fong Richard |
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George Petros Efstathiou FRS (born 2 September 1955) is a British astrophysicist of Cypriot descent who is Professor of Astrophysics and Director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. He was previously Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford. Efstathiou was educated at Tottenham Grammar School which he left at age 16 and to which he returned as a lab technician. He then studied at Keble College, Oxford and the University of Durham where he was awarded a PhD in 1979.
Efstathiou was a research assistant in the Astronomy Department of University of California Berkeley from 1979 to 1980, then moved to the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge, holding research fellowships at Kings College, Cambridge from 1980 to 1988. He was appointed as Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford in 1988 (a post that he held in conjunction with a fellowship at New College, Oxford) and served as Head of Astrophysics between 1988 and 1994. He returned to Cambridge in 1997 as Professor of Astrophysics (1909) and a Fellow of Kings College. Efstathiou served as Director of the Institute of Astronomy between 2004 and 2008. He became the first Director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology in 2008. |
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Efthymiopoulos Christos |
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Faculty, University of Padova |
PhD: |
1999, Dept. of Physics, University of Athens, Greece |
Thesis: |
The distribution function of gravitational systems |
Supervisor(s): |
Contopoulos George - Voglis Nikolaos |
Biography: |
https://www.math.unipd.it/en/department/people/christos.efthymiopoulos/ |
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Eginitis Demetrios |
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Faculty, National Observatory of Athens |
PhD: |
1886, Dept. of Physics, University of Athens, Greece |
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Supervisor(s): |
Stephanos Cyparissos |
Biography: |
Demetrios Eginitis (22 July 1862 - 13 March 1934)
Demetrios Eginitis was born in Athens and graduated from the famous Varvakeio School of Athens in 1879. In the same year, he began his studies in the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics in the Philosophical School at the University of Athens. He graduated in 1886 with a Doctor of Philosophy degree in mathematics (Stefanides, 1948). The Athens University’s Council for post-doctoral studies awarded him a scholarship so that he could take astronomy and mathematics classes at the Sorbonne in Paris. The following year, on 1 November 1887, he was accepted as an apprentice astronomer (élève astronome) at the meteorological observatory of Montsouris and, somewhat later, at the Paris Observatory, where he finally became a staff astronomer, in 1889.
When in France, Eginitis also worked at the Laboratory for Stellar Spectra in Salet, at the Physics Laboratory of Cornu, at the meteorological centre of Parc Saint Maur and at the Meudon Observatory. In addition, he worked outside Paris for a while, at the Observatory of Nice, and even outside of France, in Lockyer’s astronomical laboratory in England.
At the Paris Observatory, Eginitis worked diligently for two years with the meridian circle carrying out regular equatorial observations (i.e. measurements of the culmination of stars for mapping of the northern skies and determinations of the proper motion). He also observed asteroids and variable stars with the meridian telescope located in the western dome.
Eginitis became known for his classic treatise Sur la Stabilité du Système Solaire (On the Stability of the Solar System), in which he studied the secular variations (anomalies) of the semi-major axes of the planetary orbits. He submitted this in 1889 to the Paris Academy, where it was presented by Rear-Admiral Mouchez (the Director of Paris Observatory). In the same year, his treatise on celestial mechanics was published in the Annales de l’Observatoire de Paris, where for the first time Eginitis is referred to as a staff astronomer (astronome); this was an important career step for such a young man.
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http://www.narit.or.th/en/files/2007JAHHvol10/2007JAHH...10..123T.pdf |
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Eleni Areti |
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Emmanoulopoulos Dimitrios |
Position: |
Private Sector, Barclays (UK) |
PhD: |
2007, Astrophysics, University of Heidelberg, Germany |
Thesis: |
Nonlinear time series analysis of BL Lac light curves |
Supervisor(s): |
Wagner Stefan - Kirk John |
Biography: |
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitrios-emmanoulopoulos-384147107/ |
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Epitropakis Anastasios |
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Evangelidis Evangelos |
Position: |
Faculty, University of Thrace |
PhD: |
1973, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, United Kingdom |
Thesis: |
Waves and Alfven wave-particle interactions in the interstellar medium. |
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Exarhos George |
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Fakis Demetrios |
Position: |
High School Teacher |
PhD: |
2014, School of Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences, National Technical University of Athens, Greece |
Thesis: |
A study of the dynamical behaviour of a small body in the ring N+1 body problem with a primary central body with a Manev postnewtonian potential |
Supervisor(s): |
Kalvouridis Tilemahos |
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Fanidakis Nikolaos |
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Fassia Alexandra |
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Flogaitis Catherine |
Position: |
Faculty, University of Patras |
PhD: |
1990, Dept. of Physics, University of Patras, Greece |
Thesis: |
Equilibrium solutions and stability of asteroids under the influence of secular variations |
Supervisor(s): |
Antonacopoulos Gregorios |
Biography: |
Lecturer (retired), Department of Physics, University of Patras, Greece. She was born in the Island of Lefkada, Greece. She received the B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Athens (1973) and the Ph.D. from the Physics Department of the University of Patras (1990). Her scientific interests were in Dynamical Astronomy. |
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Florides Petros |
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Faculty, Trinity College Dublin |
PhD: |
1961, Dept. of Physics, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom |
Thesis: |
Problems in relativity theory and relativistic cosmology |
Supervisor(s): |
McCrea William |
Biography: |
Petros Serghiou Florides is a Greek Cypriot mathematical physicist whose career has been based in Ireland.
He was born in Lapithos, Cyprus, and in 1958 received his bachelors degree from the University of London. His 1960 PhD from Royal Holloway on "Problems in Relativity Theory and Relativistic Cosmology" was supervised by William McCrea. After a postdoc with John L Synge at the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies, he settled at Trinity College Dublin in 1962. There he spent over four decades, rising to the rank of senior fellow and pro-chancellor. In 1964 he was awarded a Master of Arts (juri officii).
He was member of the Reviewing Body of the “Mathematical Reviews” (1963-1980), member of the Preparatory Committee for the Establishment of the University of Cyprus (1988-1992), chairman of the Selection Committee for the Mathematics and Statistics Department of the University of Cyprus (1990-1996), chairman of the Peer Review Group for the first Quality Assessment of Third Level Institutions in Greece (1995), and chairman of the Local Organising Committee of the 17th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation, held in Dublin at the RDS Convention Centre from July 18 – 23, 2004 (2001-2004). He is life member of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation, fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, London (since 1963), and a patron (and past president) of the Irish Hellenic Society.[2] He was a former pro-chancellor of Trinity College Dublin from 2010–2012.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petros_Serghiou_Florides) |
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Florou Ioulia |
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Focas Jean-Henri |
Position: |
Researcher, Observatoire de Paris-Meudon |
PhD: |
1961, , University of Paris, France |
Thesis: |
Étude photométrique et polarimétrique des phénomènes saisonniers de la planète Mars |
Supervisor(s): |
Dollfus Audouin |
Biography: |
Jean-Henri Focas (1909-1969) was born in Corfu on July 20, 1909. An amateur astronomer, he perfected himself and finally entered the National Observatory of Athens. Under the direction of Eginitis and Plakidis, he received the deep traditional training as an observer. In Athens, he devoted himself particularly to the study of planets with the 40 cm Doridis equatorial telescope, and later with the 65 cm refractor for which he contributed in a decisive way to be installed at the astronomical station of Penteli in 1954. He stayed in France to observe the opposition of the planet Mars from 1954 to the Pic du Midi. Returning to Athens, he began a close collaboration with the Observatory of Meudon. For this reason, he visited France every year. In 1961, under the direction of Audouin Dollfus (1924-2010), he obtained a university thesis entitled: Photometric and Polarimetric Study of the Seasonal Phenomena of Mars. Then, in 1964, he came to settle permanently in France to run the photographic documentation center on the planets of the UAI in Meudon. Jean-Henri Focas died suddenly of a heart attack in Athens on January 3, 1969.
His name was given to a lunar crater.
http://www.corfuland.gr/el/diafora/kerkyra/ioannis-e.-fokas-o-kerkyraios-astronomos-poy-onomasthikan-pros-timin-toy-kratiras-ston-ari-kai-ti-selini.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Focas |
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Fotopoulos Nickolas |
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Fotopoulou Sotiria |
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Fotopoulou Constantina |
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Fragkoudi Frantzeska |
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Fragos Anastasios |
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Faculty, University of Geneva |
PhD: |
2011, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, USA |
Thesis: |
Formation and Evolution of X-ray Binaries |
Supervisor(s): |
Kalogera Vicky |
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