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Biographies of the Honored
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The Founder of the foundation late professor
Elias Mariolopoulos was born in Athens
in 1900. He studied at the Universities of
Athens, and he graduated from Cambridge
(MSC), and Imperial College of Science and
Technology (Diploma in Meteorology) and
has obtained his Phd from the University
of Paris (Docteur de l'Universite de Paris,
Sciences, and Docteur es Sciences Phyisques).
Elias Mariolopoulos has work with the
British and French Meteorological Services
and has worked closely with the famous British
Meteorologist Sir Napier Shaw. He was
elected professor of Meteorology and Climatology
at the Universities of Thessaloniki in
1928 and Athens in 1939, as Dean and Rector
at the University of Athens and has served as
Director of the National Observatory of
Athens. He was elected vice President with the
International Climate Committee (1928-1931),
the International Committee for the Upper
Atmosphere and the International Committee
of the Agricultural Meteorology. He also
served as President or member of numerous
National and International Committees, Scientific
Societies and Institutions.
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Professor Elias G. Mariolopoulos.
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In 1965 he was elected member of the
Academy of Athens.
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His large scientific work on the climate
of Greece and on anthropogenic changes in
the atmosphere has been widely recognized
by the scientific community.
Professor Elias Mariolopoulos devoted his
life to the advancement of Meteorological
Science. He was member of the Academy of
Athens, held the first University Chair of Meteorology
established in Greece (Universities
of Thessaloniki 1928 and Athens 1938). He
was a close associate to Professor Sir Napier
Shaw, one of the founders of modern
meteorology and has received many decorations
from various governments and their
eminent representatives including President
Charles de Gaulle. Professor Mariolopoulos
is considered by the scientific community as
the father of Greek modern Meteorology and
Climatology.
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The Rector Professor Elias Mariolopoulos.
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The Meeting of the International Committee for the Upper
Atmosphere (Leipzig, 1927). Sir Napier Shaw between
representatives of Mediterranean Countries. Elias
Mariolopoulos first on the left.
He has been elected Fellow of the Royal
Meteorological Society, and awarded by the
Academie des Sciences, Paris. He has been
decorated with the highest distinction of the
Holy Sepulchre, the French Officier de
l' Academie
and Officier de la Legion
d' Honneur,
the Egyptian Arab Value and many high
Greek distinctions as well as the highest one.
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Petros Kanaginis.
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The
distinguished
agronomist
Petros Kanaginis
was born at the
Island of Tinos
in 1880 and died
in 1947 in
Athens. He
studied at the
Physics
Department of
the University
of Athens (1898
-
1902) and
acquired a state
scholarship for
studying at the
Agronomic School
of Genbloux in
Belgium (1902-1905)
where he
graduated in
excellence.
Kanaginis worked
in the private
sector as
Director of
large realties,
such as the
Zografia
realties in
Trikala, the
Ammou and
Karatsali
realties in
Veria where he
successfully
applied the
first scientific
rice growing
method. In the
public sector,
he firstly
worked as a Law
Agronomist
(1912) applying
the first stages
of agricultural
politics,
because he
believed that
giving the land
performance to
people who lack
of property
would help in
the agricultural
progress of the
country and at
the same time he
introduced
contemporary and
more refined
methods for
farming.
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Kanaginis was
among the
leaders for the
development of
colonization
services for
refugees from
1913 and later
was appointed as
Director of the
Directorate of
Colonization,
where he served
in collecting
and restoring
thousands of
refugees firstly
in Thrace and
Eastern
Macedonia in
1919 and later
during the
disaster of Asia
Minor. Kanaginis
was appointed as
Director of
Agriculture and
Colonization and
in 1924 as
member of the
mixed Committee
for exchanging
Greek and
Turkish
population.
Later in 1929 he
was appointed as
a Technical
Consultant of
the Minister of
Agriculture and
in 1936 he took
on all the
economic
agricultural
research in
Greece, as well
as the direction
of all the
Agriculture
Foundations in
the country. As
a consultant to
the Minister of
Agriculture he
handled the
difficult case
of the Kopaida
Lake. Kanaginis
participated in
many Committees
relevant to
agriculture,
determinant for
the course of
national history,
such as the
establishment of
the Agricultural
Bank of Greece,
and the Higher
Agricultural
School of Athens
among others. He
also wrote many
studies and
articles
concerning
agriculture,
such as The
Communal
Agronomist,
Concerning
Fallow, the
Agronomical
Research,
Productive Works
in Macedonia,
Agronomical
Direction and
the Role of
Agronomists, The
Kopaida Issue,
etc.
Kanaginis
devoted his life
in farming the
land as a
private
occupation and
in agronomical
research and
mainly in
restoring
landless farmers
and homeless
refugees as a
public worker.
For his
contribution in
the public
sector he has
been appointed
"Evareskia"
by order of the
President of the
Hellenic
Republic, as
well as the
"Cross of
the Taxiarches
of the Order of
King George I".
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