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Autobiography of
Demetrios Christodoulou
I was born in Athens in 1951 to a lower middle class family. My father was born in Alexandria to Greek parents from Cyprus who had immigrated to Egypt.
My mother was born in Athens to a family of Greek refugees from Asia Minor. Neither of my parents had higher education, but my father inspired me in childhood with stories from a distant past when ancient Greece had made outstanding contributions to human civilization.
Demetrios christodoulou biography of rory
A problem in Euclidean geometry was the spark which initiated in me, in the summer of 1966, a burning interest in mathematics and theoretical physics. My case was brought to the attention of Achilles Papapetrou, a Greek physicist at IHP, who in turn contacted Princeton physics professor John Wheeler, on leave in Paris at that time.
So, at the beginning of 1968 I came to Paris and was examined by them. This led to my admission as a graduate student in the Princeton physics department in the fall of 1968.
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