Basilis C. Xanthopoulos
Greek theoretical physicist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Basilis C. Xanthopoulos was a Greek theoretical physicist, well known in the field of general relativity for his contributions to the study of colliding plane waves. Early years Basilis Xanthopoulos was born in Drama. He excelled in high school showing advanced analytic abilities in physics and mathematics. He was awarded the 1st prize in the national mathematics competition, organised by the Greek mathematical society in 1969 and at the same year he was admitted with the highest grade among all students in Greece to the Department of Mathematics of the University of Thessaloniki. Four years later he also graduated first in his class and after scoring at the top 1% in the GRE, he was admitted for graduate studies in Physics at the University of Chicago. He moved to Chicago in December 1974 and earned his Ph.D. on May 30, 1978, under the supervision of Prof. Robert Geroch. The title of his dissertation was "Exact vacuum solutions of Einsteins equation from linearized solutions". During this time, he commenced a close lifelong collaboration with Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, who was effectively his co-supervisor and became a close friend and life-long mentor. Chandrasekhar, having been awarded the Nobel prize in Physics in 1983, visited Crete several times in the mid to late 1980's to collaborate with Xanthopoulos, and actually mentions in 1991 in Current Science that "My association with Basilis is the most binding in all my sixty years of science".
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