Stamatios Krimigis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Head Emeritus of the Applied Physics Laboratory
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Place of Birth: Vrontados, North Aegean Region, Greece
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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