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Griechische Wissenschaftler
In 1981 Savas Dimopoulos (Δημόπουλος Σάββας) of Stanford University and Howard Georgi of Harvard University proposed the supersymmetric extension to the standard model. Revolutionary at the time, it is now accepted by many physicists. Dimopoulos has been strongly driven in his research by a desire to understand what lies beyond the standard model. His contributions have included work on grand unified theories of baryogenesis, which would provide an explanation of the origin of matter. Jointly with Stanford colleague Nima Arkani-Hamed and Gia Dvali of ICTP, Trieste, Italy, he has proposed an audacious solution to the problem of explaining the weakness of the gravitational force. The proposal invokes new large dimensions accessible to the graviton. Among the extraordinary implications of this thinking is the notion that our entire universe is a single point in space of extra dimensions, and is but one of innumerable parallel universes. Thanks to this work, Dimopoulos has recently been a mainstay of the Physics Top Ten—one of the trio's papers on this subject has ranked among physics's most cited for more than a year. Dimopoulos grew up in Honours
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