George Doundoulakis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Physicist and Soldier
Date of Birth: 19-Oct-1921
Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, United States
Date of Death: 17-Mar-2007
Profession: physicist
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About George Doundoulakis
- George James Doundoulakis (October 19, 1921 – March 17, 2007) was a Greek American physicist and soldier who worked under British Intelligence during World War II with SOE agent Patrick Leigh Fermor, and then served with the OSS in Thessaly, Greece. He is known by his twenty-six US Patents in the fields of radar, electronics, and narrowband television.
- Doundoulakis is best remembered for the idea of suspending the antenna feed of the Arecibo radio telescope by cables and towers, eventually patented by his brother Helias Doundoulakis. A decorated veteran of World War II, Doundoulakis formed an underground resistance organization in Crete under the Special Operations Executive.
- He escaped to Egypt and joined the U.S.
- Army and Office of Strategic Services – the OSS.
- He was sent back to Greece, where he outfitted and unified a leftist rebel army, and was awarded the Legion of Merit from the United States Army and the King's Medal for Courage in the Cause of Freedom from Great Britain.
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