Giorgos Grammatikakis, well-known Greek physicist, writer and former member of the European Parliament, died on Wednesday morning on the age of 84.
He was briefly hospitalized and obtained medical consideration within the intensive care unit of the College Hospital of Heraklion in Crete as a consequence of respiratory failure.
Grammatikakis acquired his Ph.D. in experimental high-energy physics from Imperial Faculty London in 1973. In 1982 he took up the place of Professor of Physics on the College of Crete.
within the construction and cosmology of matter, he was concerned within the NESTOR undertaking, a world scientific collaboration to position a neutrino telescope on the seabed off Pylos, southern Peloponnese.
From 1990 to 1996 he held the place of rector on the College of Crete.
He retired and was honored with the title of Emeritus Professor in 2006.
Giorgos Grammatikakis was additionally a profitable writer of fashionable science books on cosmology and physics:
He was a member of the board of the previous state-owned broadcaster ERT and was vice-president of the Greek Nationwide Opera.
Member of the European Parliament
Within the 2014 European Parliament elections, he was elected as certainly one of two MEPs on the record of the newly based political social gathering To Potami (now defunct). He was related to the parliamentary group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) and was a member of the Committee for Tradition and Schooling and the delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.
He served as an MEP till 2019.