History - Retrospective - THESSALONIKI 1999

• Host town
• List of prize winners
• Jury members

Apothiki Gamma - Governor's House (Kyverneio)

Thessaloniki is the second largest city in Greece and the main metropolis of the North of the country (Macedonia). One of the oldest cities in Europe, it stretches over twelve kilometres in a bowl formed by low hills facing a bay that opens into the Gulf Thermaikos.
Thessaloniki was founded by Cassander, king of Macedonia, about 315 B. C. on a site of old prehistoric settlements dating back to 2,300 B. C. The city was named after the king's wife, who was the sister of Alexander the Great. The long and varied historical trajectory of Thessaloniki is faithfully reflected by the Archaeological Museum, which shelters a brilliant collection about the use of gold in jewellery, decoration and coinage, as well as the technology of gold-mining and gold-working in ancient Macedonia.
Thessaloniki became a turning point in history, again, by organising the 11th edition of the EU Young Scientists Contest and thus completing more than a decade of success and progressive enlargement of the programme.
But there is much more about Thessaloniki and scientific achievements: in the particular field of the history of science, it must be said that Aristotle's father, for instance, had been court physician to the Macedonian king Amyntas II; furthermore, Aristotle himself would become the personal tutor of Alexander the Great.
But some other less known thinkers have a connection with Thessaloniki, particularly during the Byzantine period. It would be unfair to forget that Nicephoros Gregoras, a mathematician and natural scientists of the 14th century, significantly worked on both the calendar and the construction of a sophisticated astrolabe. In the same century, Joseph the Philosopher would produce a picturesque encyclopaedia containing a precious synthesis of the botanical, mineralogical, pharmaceutical and medicinal knowledge of his time.

Much more recently, Mathematics has had its own representative in Raphaël Salem (1898-1963) who was born in Thessaloniki. Salem worked on Fourier series and algebraic numbers throughout his life, which he mostly spent in France, England and the USA. He would manage to write joint papers with Professor Norbert Wiener, the father of cybernetics.


PRIZE WINNERS

FIRST PRIZES

SECOND PRIZES

THIRD PRIZES

TRAVEL AWARD TO THE NOBEL PRIZE

LONDON INTERNATIONAL YOUTH SCIENCE FORUM

SPECIAL AWARDS FROM 1999 ONWARDS

ALUMNI PRIZE

JURY MEMBERS

Pedro Guerreiro
Vera Adam-Vizi
Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl
Kristinn Andersen
Dan Bradley
Pierre Hirtt
Birgitte Kiaer Ahring
Christa E. Müller
Tuija Pulkinnen
Pauline Slosse
Stephen Sparks
Jan van de Craats
Kevin Kahn
Pantelis Kyriakides