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National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia Center of Excellence NANOSMART Corresponding author P. Svec, e-mail fyzisvec(g)savba.skn... 

Mamunya Y P Davydenko V V Pissis P Lebedev E V Ukranian Academy of Sciences Athens,National Technical University... 

Marava-Chatzinicolaou, A. Toufexi-Paschou, C. Catalogue of the Illuminated Byzantine Manuscripts of the National Library of Greece Publications Bureau of the Academy of Athens Athens, 1978 Vol. Z, pp 224-243. 

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The center of Greek philosophy shifted to Athens around 400 B.C.E., with the rise of Plato and his school, the Academy. Plato (428-347 B.C.E.) was an Athenian from a wealthy, patrician family. He had been the foremost pupil of Socrates (470-399 b.c.e.), but, unlike his teacher, he did not reject the necessity of understanding the physical world. For Socrates, only the Ideal and the nature of man were worthy of study. The Ideal was perfect, mathematical, and divine. Although Plato accepted the superiority of the Ideal over the material, he was also interested in human existence, writing extensively about politics and social organization. It followed that even if the material world might be an imperfect reflection of the Ideal, to make the best of one s life a person needed to understand both the material world and the Ideal. The best presentation of Plato s ideas is found in the Timaeus, which includes a description of the structure of the universe. 

Plato s most famous pupil was Aristotle. Aristotle came from Stageirus, on the Chalcidic peninsula of northern Greece, where his father, Nicomachus, was a physician. Aristotle would probably have followed his father into medicine, since medical education and practice were passed down from father to son, but Nicomachus died when Aristotle was about 10 years old. He was raised by a relative, and, in 367 b.c.e., at the age of 17, Aristotle became a student at the Academy. He stayed for 20 years, first as a student and later as a teacher. When Plato died, Aristotle may have expected to become the head of the Academy in Athens, but the position went to Speusippus, who was Plato s nephew. Little is known about Speusippus he seems to have followed some of Plato s ideas but rejected Plato s theory of forms. Aristotle left the Academy, partly because of his situation at the Academy and partly because of political turmoil in Athens. He traveled to Macedonia, where he tutored Alexander, son of King Philip. When Alexander became king, he supported Aristotle s creation of the Lyceum, a rival school in Athens. 

Storey, A.A., Miguel Ramirez, J., Quiroz, D., Burley, D., Addison, D.J., Walter, R., Anderson, A.J., Hunt, T.L., Athens, J.S., Huynen, L., Matisoo-Smith, E.A., 2007. Radiocarbon and DNA evidence for a Pre-Columbian introduction of Polynesian chickens to Chile. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 104 10335-10339. 

Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Veszprem and Research Group for Petrochemistry of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 8200 Veszprem, Hungary... 

The Christian Emperor Justinian closed down Athens Platonic Academy in 529CE. The philosophers Damascius and Simplicius relocated close to Harran. Simplicius was a follower of Xenophanes Eleatic School. These philosophers would have greatly enriched society... 

In 1937 rvas returned to Greece where he was appointed Professor at the University of Thessaloniki. Two years later he accepted an invitation to the University of Athens, where he remained, even after his retirement in 1968. He became a member of the Academy of Athens, was named, in 1964, Secretary of Industry and was one of the initiators of The National Hellenic Research Foundation. In spite of such new responsibiUties he continued to be active in the laboratory until the end of his Ufe. His carbobenzoxy group and the consequences for peptide chemistry are discussed in chapter 3. 

K. C. Nicolaou is Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, San Diego and is Chairman of the Department of Chemistry and holds the Aline W. and L. Skaggs Professorship of Chemical Biology and the Darlene Shiley Chair in Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute. His impact on chemistry, biology and medicine flows from his works in chemical synthesis and chemical biology described in hundreds of publications and 55 patents. For his contributions to research and education, he was elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Foreign Member of the Academy of Athens, Greece, and received numerous prizes, awards and honors. 

He has raieived the following awards Academy of Athens Award for Chemistry (1989), Empirikion Award for Sciences (1994), the Gre Chemists Association Award (2000), the AC, PMSEA. K. Doolittle Award (2003), the/ntenwifionPolymer Science, Japan (SPSJ, 2007), the ACS PMSE Cooperative Research Award (2010) and the ACS, Rubber Division, Chemistry of Thermoplastic Elastomers Award (2011). He was elected as a PMSE Fellow for 2004 and was the "Ralph Milkovich" Memorial Lecturer for 2006 at the University of Akron. He has Honorary D rees Doctorate Honoris Causa) fiom the University Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela (2010) and the University of loannina, Greece (2010). He has dedicate his career primarily to the synthesis and properties of model polymers and has published more than 400 papers in refereed scientific journals, three books ( litor), is the author of one book on Block Copolymers (Wiley 2003) and owns 6 patents,. 

There is a long history for us to recognize polymers. Let us start with the early evolution of our molecular views (Rupp 2005). As early as in the middle of 500 BC, the Greek philosopher Leucippus and his follower Democritus suggested that, an indivisible minimum substance called atoms constituted our world. Almost at the same time, Empedocles proposed that the world was formed by four elements, i.e., water, air, fire, and earth. Later on, Plato set up the Academy at Athens, inherited the atomic theory, and also advocated the four-element theory on the basis of the formal logic system of geometries. 

It was fashionable to name landscaped features of great estates after famous natural sites, as to name (as C. himself did) buildings after the Academy or Lyceum at Athens. The Euripus is the strait between Euboea and the mainland of Greece. 

ANTIOCHUS of ASCALON (late second century to 68/7). Head of the Academy, which he turned away from skepticism to what he called the Old Academy, emphasizing the similarity among Stoic, Peripatetic, and Platonic ethical beliefs. Cicero heard him lecture in Athens in 79/8, and he had close connections with many Romans of high rank. 

CARNEADES (214-129). A skeptic and the head of the Academy he was (with Diogenes the Stoic and Critolaus the Peripatetic) a member of the so-called philosophers embassy from Athens to Rome in 155. His balanced speeches on justice and injustice on that occasion were shocking and notorious, and provide the basis for the debate on justice in Book 3 of On the Commonwealth. 

Eleonora G. Privalko - Senior researcher. Department of Polymer Thermophysics (DePTh), Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. She graduated in Polymer Chemistry from the Shevchenko State University (Kyiv) and got her PhD (Polymer Chemistry) in the Institute of Macro-molecular Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1989). Areas of research thermodynamic properties and mechanical performance of heterogeneous polymer materials (filled polymers, polymer blends, interpenetrating polymer networks, polymer nanocomposites). Visiting positions NATO Research Fellow, National Technical University of Athens, Greece. Publications over 50 papers in refereed journals. 

Shaw, R.W. (1988). Transboundary Acidification in Europe and the Benefits of International Cooperation. Presented at the Conference " Pollution knows no Frontiers Priorities for Pan-European Cooperation" held in Varna, Bulgaria on 16-20 October 1988, organized by Professors World Peace Academy (PWPA), Athens, Greece. 

The authors wish to thank Prof. V. P. Privalko, Dr. Yu. V. Savelyev, Prof. V. V. Shilov, Prof. E. V. Lebedev and Dr. Ye. P. Mamunya from the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine Prof. A. Vassilikou-Dova from the University of Athens Dr. A. Kyritsis, Dr. A. Kanapitsas and Ms. S. Kripotou from the National Technical University of Athens, for providing data and/or for valuable discussions. 

Fellow of the Literary Historical Society, University College of Dublin (2004-). Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Washington (2004). Associate Fellow of TWAS (the Third World Academy of Sciences), Trieste (2004-). Member of the Board of Directors of the Mariolopoulos-Kanaguinis Foundation for Environmental Sciences, Athens (2004-). Member of the ABC science team (2005-). Member of the Advisory Board of the National Society of High School Scholars, Atlanta (2005-). Advisor for the Human World radio show. Earth Sky Radio Series, NSE, Austin (2005-). ... 

Golden Medal (highest destination) given by the Academy of Athens, October 22, 2003... 

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