Nationality Greek Name Alexandros Chapsiadis | Died January 22, 1992 | |
Born May 29, 1946
Alexandroupolis, Greece ( 1946-05-29 ) Fields Mathematics
Physics
Mechanics
Astrophysics
Number Theory
Topology Institutions Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Technological Educational Institute of Kavala Alma mater Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Imperial College London Institution Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Technological Educational Institute of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace | ||
Alexandros Chapsiadis (Greek: Δρ. Αλέξανδρος Χαψιάδης, 1946–1992) was a mathematician and physicist. He was born and raised in Alexandroupolis, Greece.
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Academic career
Chapsiadis graduated from the Department of Mathematics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1973. In 1975 he received an MSc in Mathematics at the Imperial College London, UK. In 1980 he joined the Technological University of Kavala, Greece, as an assistant professor in Mathematics. In 1988 Chapsiadis received a PhD in Physics, from the Astrophysics Group, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Contribution to knowledge
In his doctoral Thesis, under the supervision of Prof. M. Michalodimitrakis, he studied the fundamental problem, in Mechanics, of a two–body system consisting of a solid body and a material point. He was the first to prove the existence of bounded motions for an isolated system, consisting of a solid body