Dimitri Nanopoulos
Dimitri Nanopoulos (born 13 September 1948 in Athens) is a Greek physicist. He is one of the most regularly cited researchers in the world.
Dimitri Nanopoulos was born and raised in Athens. He has been a Research Fellow at the Center of European Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland and for many years has been a staff member and Research Fellow at the Ăcole Normale SupĂŠrieure, in Paris, France and at Harvard University, Cambridge, United States.
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 588 original papers, including 13 books. He has over 35,800 citations, placing him as the fourth most cited High Energy Physicist of all time.
He is one of the principal developers of the flipped SU(5) model, first proposed by Stephen M. Barr in a paper published in 1982. It was further described in a 1984 paper by Nanopoulos, J. P. Deredinger, and J.E Kim and a 1987 paper by Nanopoulos, I. Antoniadis, John Ellis, and John Hagelin.
On 17 October 2006 he was awarded the Onassis International prize by the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation. On 28 September 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.
