Paul Alivisatos Wins National Medal of Science
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S O C V th ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ W ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ E 10 0 ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald anniversa ry N www.thenationalherald.com A weekly Greek-AmericAn PublicAtiOn 1915-2015 VOL. 19, ISSUE 951 January 2-8, 2016 c v $1.50 TNH Person of the Year Paul Alivisatos Wins National Medal o1f Science Alexis Tsipras: Prime Nanoscience Pioneer Will Be Honored at Minister of Greece The White House There were newsmakers and headliners galore once again in Greece in 2015, another year of turbulence and political up - TNH Staff heaval but the man who ruled the headlines was an unlikely non-hero who started out boasting he would reverse austerity WASHINGTON, DC – The and “crush the oligarchy,” only to administer more austerity as White House has announced they have all Premiers. this year’s nine winners of the It was for Radical Left SYRIZA leader and Prime Minister prestigious the National Medal Alexis Tsipras a time of comeuppance and eating crow, swal - of Science and among them is lowing his defiant promises not to even talk to Greece’s inter - Greek-American Paul Alivisatos, national creditors – nor even to call them by the hated moniker Director of Lawrence Berkeley the Troika – only to follow their orders as did his predecessors. National Laboratory. The award Tsipras, rolling to power in January snap elections after is America’s highest honor for spending the previous nearly five years roasting incumbent lifetime achievement in fields of leaders for bowing to the lenders – who became the Quartet scientific research. after the European Stability Mechanism joined the European “Science and technology are Union, International Monetary Fund and European Central fundamental to solving some of Bank in setting the terms he would have to obey to get a third our Nation’s biggest challenges,” bailout of 86 billion euros ($94.43 billion) said he had “no President Obama said in a state - choice.” ment, adding that “the knowl - It was a term he would regret. The same words were spoken edge produced by these Ameri - by former PASOK Socialist leader and then-Premier George Pa - cans today will carry our pandreou in 2010 when he asked for the first bailout to save country’s legacy of innovation Greece from the excesses of his party and the New Democracy forward and continue to help Conservatives going on wild spending sprees and runaway pa - countless others around the tronage hiring for decades. world. Their work is a testament Papandreou’s successor, New Democracy leader Antonis to American ingenuity.” Samaras, when he was out of power, talked like Tsipras too, The medals will be presented opposing austerity only to say after he won in 2012 and formed in 2016 at a White House cere - a coalition with PASOK that he had “no choice” but to admin - mony. ister tough conditions on workers, pensioners and the poor. Alivisatos. 56, is considered Tsipras eschewed ties, favored the philosophy of rebels like “one of the fathers of Che Guevara and seemed a capitalist’s worst nightmare before Dr. Paul Alivisatos, who was awarded this year’s National Medal of Science, during a talk at the nanoscience.” he too discovered that uneasy lies the head that wears the Berkeley Lab. The medals will be presented in 2016 at a White House ceremony. According to a release by the crown and that in the real world of Greek politics the country Berkeley Lab, he is renowned would go broke without adhering to the demands of the Quar - for his ground-breaking re - tet. search in quantum dots and It meant he would have to renege on virtually every promise other artificial nanostructures, he made: to reverse austerity, not to talk to the creditors, to Rev. Gounaris, Mistress, in Canada holds appointments with the stop privatization, not to impose capital controls or close banks, University of California Berkeley to restore the minimum wage and collective bargaining. as the Samsung Distinguished By Theodore Kalmoukos nia, Crete, where she and her convince her to return to Chair in Nanoscience and Nan - husband are building a summer Canada with him in order to otechnology, and is the Director Rev. Anastasios Gounaris, home for their retirement there. save their marriage, but she re - of the Kavli Energy Nano - former presiding priest of the Both Gounaris and Patricia fused. Sciences Institute at Berkeley. St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox are married with three adult In May, Patricia went to He is also a scientific founder of Cathedral in Tarpon Springs, FL, children and grandchildren. Florida, pretending to visit rel - two prominent nanotechnology who last June abruptly left his Over the last few years the cou - atives and friends, but really companies, Nanosys and Quan - parish and family and departed ple was planning to abandon was there with Gounaris. The tum Dot Corp,” now a part of the United States for an un - their families without any notice couple plans to return to Chania Life Tech. known destination, now lives in and fly to Grete. in the spring. Alivisatos is the 15th Berke - Maple Ridge, British Columbia, While in Crete, Patricia con - Recently, Gounaris and Patri - ley Lab scientist to win the Canada with his mistress, Patri - vinced her husband to fly there, cia returned to Tarpon Springs Medal, which was established cia T., TNH has learned. The but when he arrived he found to gather his belongings, which by Congress in 1959 as a Presi - love story between Fr. Gounaris the locks changed. When she he had stored in warehouse. dential Award. and Canadian Patricia, who is broke the news of her love affair Parish Council President Nikitas Alivisatos was born in said to be wealthy, began in to him, Gounaris was hiding in 2012 or even before that in Cha - the house. The husband tried to Continued on page 5 Continued on page 4 James Moshovitis of “The Greatest Generation” By Constantine S. Sirigos TNH Staff Writer It was a 180-degree turn, a U-turn, a humiliating capitulation and surrender, what the Greeks sneeringly referred to as a NEW YORK – Realtor, restaura - “Kolotoumba,” a somersault of shame. teur, and philanthropist James It meant his name was the dominant one, making him The Moshovitis was presented on National Herald’s 2015 Man of the Year – not for glory – but October 28 with “The Greatest for newsworthiness as his name became known outside the Generation Award” at The small world of Greek leftist politics and resounded from Brussels Washington OXI Day Foundation to Washington to Beijing and beyond. Gala, celebrating the 75th an - He had some rivals for the headlines, particularly the com - niversary of Greece’s heroic act bative blogger-economist he chose to be his Finance Minister, of defiance that inspired the Al - Yanis Varoufakis – only to effectively fire him when it became lied cause in WWII. apparent the tough-talking self-styled game theory expert Thousands of Greek-Ameri - wanted to be tougher on the creditors than did Tsipras, who cans served valiantly in the war became an overnight pragmatist in July when he asked Greeks – Moshovitis was on the first ship that arrived in Tokyo Bay Continued on page 11 on V-J Day – and the Founda - tion’s award honors representa - tive veterans. “I was surprised. I like to be low-key, but I believed in it,” Strong Support for Elpis Moshovitis told TNH, adding how he feels about the Founda - tion, its work, and its founder, Hospital in Los Angeles Andy Manatos. It is a nonprofit, 501c3 organization dedicated to informing American policymak - By Vasilis Papoutsis When people lose their jobs they ers and the public about the pro - no longer have access to the na - found role Greece played in LOS ANGELES, CA – Elpis Hos - tional health system, and the bringing about the outcome of pital Managing Director Dr. need for treatment has risen James Moshovitis and Andy Manatos, the Washington OXI Day Foundation’s founding president, Theodore Giannaros received a drastically. Continued on page 4 next to photographer Nelly Sougioutzoglous’ iconic Dec. 1940 Life Magazine cover. warm welcome from the Greek- As Dr. Giannaros said in his American community of Los An - opening remarks, ''the crisis in geles at his recent visit to raise not only an economic crisis, it money for much needed equip - is a humanitarian crisis.'' He was ment for the hospital. leading an alliance of six hospi - Chicago Couple Offers Christmas Meal of Love The visit was organized by tals committed to treating the the American Hellenic Council uninsured but ''unfortunately I and took place at the Mani - am the only one left from that By Demetris Tsakas the other donations are imple - States for the purpose of earning atakos Hall at the St. Sophia alliance.'' mented in cooperation with the $10,000 and returning to Cathedral, which sponsored the Elpis has been in operation Dimitrious and Eleni Bousis Municipality of Athens, as in the Prosymni, but even today, as event and graciously offered the for more than 170 years and has were the generous benefactors case with the Christmas meal in Dimitrious quipped, “we have hall and food. The Hellenic Li - nurtured some of the giants of of the Christmas Day meal en - Athens, organized by the Mu - not managed to get the money brary and the Hellenic Univer - Greek medicine such as Makkas, joyed by 1300 homeless and nicipality of Athens Center of together so as to repatriate our - sity Club were some of the other Magginas, and Geroulanos. poverty-stricken people in Reception and Solidarity selves.” sponsors. Dr. Giannaros who Elpis has always been commit - Athens.