In 1981 Savas Dimopoulos (Δημόπουλος Σάββας) of Stanford University and Howard Georgi of Harvard University proposed the supersymmetric extension to the standard model. Revolutionary at the time, it is now accepted by many physicists. Dimopoulos has been strongly driven in his research by a desire to understand what lies beyond the standard model. His contributions have included work on grand unified theories of baryogenesis, which would provide an explanation of the origin of matter. Jointly with Stanford colleague Nima Arkani-Hamed and Gia Dvali of ICTP, Trieste, Italy, he has proposed an audacious solution to the problem of explaining the weakness of the gravitational force. The proposal invokes new large dimensions accessible to the graviton. Among the extraordinary implications of this thinking is the notion that our entire universe is a single point in space of extra dimensions, and is but one of innumerable parallel universes. Thanks to this work, Dimopoulos has recently been a mainstay of the Physics Top Ten—one of the trio's papers on this subject has ranked among physics's most cited for more than a year.

Dimopoulos grew up in Athens, Greece, and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1978. He has been Professor of Physics at Stanford since 1979.

Savas Dimopoulos was Nr 33 of the most cited physicist and will advance to even better places, SPIRES HEP database list.

Dimopoulos in a TV report about theoretical Physics, Superstrings, M-Theory...

2006 J. J. Sakurai Award for his work in advancing theoretical particle physics Professor's quest for quantifiable truth wins him top prize in particle physics

Honours

• Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006)
  
  
• Winner of the 2006 J. J. Sakurai Award in Theoretical Physics:
  
• “For his creative ideas on dynamical symmetry breaking, supersymmetry, and extra spatial dimensions, which have shaped theoretical research on TeV-scale physics, thereby inspiring a wide range of experiments.”
  
  
• Winner of the 2006 Tomassoni Prize in Physics.
  
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow
  
• Fellow of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science
  
• Distinguished Alumnus Award, University of Houston, Texas
  

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