Stamatios Krimigis
Stamatios M. Krimigis | |
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| Born | Stamatios Mike Krimigis September 10, 1938 |
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| Employer | Applied Physics Laboratory |
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| Thesis | An interplanetary diffusion model for the time behavior of intensity in a solar cosmic ray event (1965) |
| Doctoral advisor | James Van Allen |
Stamatios (Tom) Mike Krimigis (Greek: Σταμάτιος Κριμιζής; born September 10, 1938) is a Greek-American space physicist, who contributed to multiple space probe missions. 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.