Stamatios Krimigis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Stamatios Krimigis

Head Emeritus of the Applied Physics Laboratory

Date of Birth: 10-Sep-1938

Place of Birth: Vrontados, North Aegean Region, Greece

Profession: astronomer

Nationality: Greece

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Stamatios Krimigis

  • Stamatios (Tom) M.
  • Krimigis (Greek: Staµ?t??? ???µ????) is a Greek-American scientist in space exploration.
  • He has contributed to many of the United States' unmanned space exploration programs of the Solar System and beyond.
  • He has contributed to exploration missions to almost every planet of the Solar System.
  • In 1999, the International Astronomical Union named the asteroid 8323 Krimigis (previously 1979 UH) in his honor.

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