Stamatios Krimigis

Stamatios (Tom) M. Krimizis
Stamatios (Tom) M. Krimizis
Born
Stamatios M. Krimizis

(1938-09-10) September 10, 1938 (age 86)
Vrontados, Chios, Greece
Citizenship
  • Greece
  • United States
EmployerApplied Physics Laboratory
TitleHead Emeritus, Space Department
Scientific career
ThesisAn interplanetary diffusion model for the time behavior of intensity in a solar cosmic ray event (1965)
Doctoral advisorJames Van Allen

Stamatios (Tom) Mike Krimizis (Greek: Σταμάτιος Κριμιζής; born September 10, 1938) 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.[1][2] In 1999, the International Astronomical Union named the asteroid 8323 Krimigis (previously 1979 UH) in his honor.[2]