Renowned physicist and writer Giorgos Grammatikakis dies at the age of 84

Renowned Greek physicist, writer and former member of the European Parliament Giorgos Grammatikakis died on Wednesday morning at the age of 84.

He was briefly hospitalized and treated in the intensive care unit of Heraklion University Hospital in Crete for respiratory arrest.

Grammatikakis received his PhD in experimental high-energy physics from Imperial College London in 1973. In 1982 he took up the position of professor of physics at the University of Crete. Interested in the structure of matter and cosmology, he participated in the NESTOR project, an international scientific collaboration to install a neutrino telescope on the seabed of Pylos (southern Peloponnese).

From 1990 to 1996 he served as Rector of the University of Crete. In 2006, he retired and was awarded the title of emeritus professor. Giorgos Grammatikakis was also a successful author of popular science books on cosmology and physics.

He was a member of the board of directors of the former state broadcasting corporation ERT and vice-president of the Greek National Opera.

At the elections to the European Parliament in 2014, he was elected one of two MEPs on the list of the recently created political party “To Potami” (now does not exist). He was a member of the parliamentary group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D), a member of the Committee on Culture and Education and the delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee. He held the post of European Deputy until 2019.

R.I.P.

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