The Most Famous
PHYSICISTS from Greece
This page contains a list of the greatest Greek Physicists. The pantheon dataset contains 851 Physicists, 1 of which were born in Greece. This makes Greece the birth place of the 53rd most number of Physicists behind Uzbekistan, and Lithuania.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Greek Physicists of all time. This list of famous Greek Physicists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. John Iliopoulos (b. 1940)
With an HPI of 54.12, John Iliopoulos is the most famous Greek Physicist. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
John (Jean) Iliopoulos (Greek: Ιωάννης Ηλιόπουλος; 1940) is a Greek physicist. He is the first person to present the Standard Model of particle physics in a single report. He is best known for his prediction of the charm quark with Sheldon Glashow and Luciano Maiani (the "GIM mechanism"). Iliopoulos is also known for demonstrating the cancellation of anomalies in the Standard model. He is further known for the Fayet-Iliopoulos D-term formula, which was introduced in 1974. He is currently an honorary member of Laboratory of theoretical physics of École Normale Supérieure, Paris.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Greek physicists born between 1940 and 1940. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Greek physicists include John Iliopoulos. As of April 2024, 1 new Greek physicists have been added to Pantheon including John Iliopoulos.
