Xanthopoulos Basilis (PhD)
Position: Faculty
PhD: 1978, Dept. of Physics, University of Chicago, USA
Supervisor(s): Robert Geroch
Biography:
Basilis Xanthopoulos was a greek theoretical physicist, who made several fundamental contributions in General Relativity and Gravitational Physics until his premature death on November 27, 1990. He was born in Drama, Greece, on April 8, 1951 and studied Mathematics at the University of Thessaloniki. He continued his graduate studies at the University of Chicago (USA) where, in 1978, he obtained his PhD under the supervision of Robert Geroch. He taught and worked as a researcher at Montana State University and at the University of Syracuse (USA) and he was a visitor at Harvard University as well as at the Max Planck Institute of Astrphysics in Germany. He returned to Greece as Chief Assistant at the University of Thessaloniki (1979-1982) before joining the Department of Physics of the University of Crete as an Assistant Professor (1982-1983), Associate Professor (1983-1987), and Professor (1987-1990). He served as the Chairman of the Department of Physics from 1987 until the time of his death. A dedicated page on the life and work of Basilis Xanthopoulos is available in Greek at: https://xanthopoulos.physics.uoc.gr Basilis was one of the closest collaborators of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (Nobel Prize in Physics 1983). They published together many important papers on black holes, colliding gravitational waves, space time perturbations, and other topics in General Relativity.
Basilis Xanthopoulos was a greek theoretical physicist, who made several fundamental contributions in General Relativity and Gravitational Physics until his premature death on November 27, 1990. He was born in Drama, Greece, on April 8, 1951 and studied Mathematics at the University of Thessaloniki. He continued his graduate studies at the University of Chicago (USA) where, in 1978, he obtained his PhD under the supervision of Robert Geroch. He taught and worked as a researcher at Montana State University and at the University of Syracuse (USA) and he was a visitor at Harvard University as well as at the Max Planck Institute of Astrphysics in Germany. He returned to Greece as Chief Assistant at the University of Thessaloniki (1979-1982) before joining the Department of Physics of the University of Crete as an Assistant Professor (1982-1983), Associate Professor (1983-1987), and Professor (1987-1990). He served as the Chairman of the Department of Physics from 1987 until the time of his death. A dedicated page on the life and work of Basilis Xanthopoulos is available in Greek at: https://xanthopoulos.physics.uoc.gr Basilis was one of the closest collaborators of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (Nobel Prize in Physics 1983). They published together many important papers on black holes, colliding gravitational waves, space time perturbations, and other topics in General Relativity.