Nανόπουλος, Δημήτρης

1. Entity type Person
2. Name in other language Νanopoulos, Dimitris (en)
3. Birth date 13 September 1948
4. Birth place Athens
5. Gender Name Male
6. Biographical Data

   1. Dimitris V. Nanopoulos is a Greek physict. He was born in Athens. He studied Physics at the University of Athens. He continued his studies at the University of Sussax, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1973 in High Energy Physics. He has been a Research Fellow at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, and for many years has been a staff member and Research Fellow at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and at Harvard University. In 1989, he was elected Professor at the Department of Physics at theNASA -supported Texas A&M University, where since 1992 he has been a Distinguished Professor of Physics, and since 2002 holder of the Mitchell/Heep Chair in High Energy Physics. He is also a distinguished HARC fellow at the Houston Advanced Research Center in Texas. In 1997 he was appointed regular member of the Academy of Athens, and, in 2005, President of the Greek National Council for Research and Technology, Greek National Representative to the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CERN, and to the European Space Agency (ESA).

      He has made several contributions to particle physics and cosmology, and works in string unified theories, fundamentals of quantum theory, astroparticle physics and quantum-inspired models of brain function. He has written over 645 original papers, including 14 books. Since 1988 he has been fellow of the American Physical Society, and since 1992 member of the Italian Physical Society. In 1996, he was made Commander of the Order of Honour of the Greek State.

      In 2006 he was awarded the Onassis International prize by the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation and in 2009, he was awarded the 2009 Enrico Fermi Prize from the Italian Physical Society in recognition of his pioneering work in the field of string theory.

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