Part 3 - Modern Greece Science and Technology Michael Lahanas

Astronomy, Astrophysics

The Antoniadi Moon Crater

Eugène Michel Antoniadi (1870 – 10.2.1944), astronomer, Mars, Mercury observations, Antoniadi's map of Mercury (1934). E. M Antoniadi, The Planet Mars. 1929; English trans., Patrick Moore. London: Keith Reid, 1975,“sums up 3 decades of criticism of the canal theory, although Antoniadi accepts the view that vegetation exists on the planet“, Mars Timeline. He gave names to features of the planet Mercury. Antoniadi Seeing scale. See also The Antoniadi scale for seeing , The Mercury Planet Antoniadi Ridge , The Antoniadi Mars Crater in Syrtis Major,

Costas D. Papaliolios (Cos) (1931 Brooklyn / New York – 6.6.2002 lung cancer) his parents from Limni / Euboea, “novel techniques in optical ground-based astronomy: speckle interferometry, coded-aperture spectroscopy, precise time-resolved studies of pulsars, a novel event-driven low-light imaging camera The PAPA camera“, Info , Images
Andrew Gerasimos Michalitsianos (22.5.1947 - 29.10.1997) NASA-GSFC USA, an astrophysicist from Kefalonia

John Stefanos Paraskevopoulos, (Dr Paras) (20.6.1889 Piraeus Greece – 15.3.1951), Greek – South African Astronomer, director of Boyden Observatory in South Africa 1927-1951. He co-discovered a couple of comets. The Paraskevopoulos Lunar Crater

George Efstathiou , (Γεώργιος Π. Ευσταθίου) Big Bang Background Radiation, Astrophysics, Maxwell Medal and Prize 1990, Robinson Prize in Cosmology 1997

Chryssa Kouveliotou , Astronomy, Magnetars ( Χρύσα Κουβελιώτου Info in Greek)

George Contopoulos, „Order and Chaos in Dynamical Astronomy“, Papers of Contopoulos

Dimitri Mihalas

Jean-Henri Focas (Ionnas Focas)(July 20, 1909 – January 3, 1969) ,Greco-French astronomer , Focas Moon Crater

Emilios T. Harlaftis (29.3.1965 Kiato – 13.1. 2005 Menalo)

Demosthenes (Demos) Kazanas (Δημοσθένης Καζάνας) A Press Release , http://lheawww.gsfc.nasa.gov/users/kazanas/ , Στην κοσμική ακτινοβολία οι νέες διαστάσεις της φυσικής

Menas Kafatos

Ioannis Seiradakis ,Aristotle University of Thessaloniki PULSE: The Impact of European Pulsar Science on Modern Physics, Descartes 2005 Prize

Paul Kalas (13.8.1967) , discoveries of circumstellar debris disks

Stathis (Efstathios) Ilonidis, Sunspots used to improve solar storm warnings

Astronomy in Greece , HelAS

What is the sense of human life? he (Anaxagoras) was asked; “to look at the sky, the stars, the moon, the sun,” was his response.
Iamblichus, Protrepticus 51,11 = Aristotle, Protrepticus Fr. 11 Ross, and Eudemian Ethics 1216a11 = DK 59 A 30.
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