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Angelos Georgiou Galanopoulos Greek Άγγελος Γαλανόπουλος,English Angelos (Aggelos) Galanopoulos, Born Achaia (Peloponnese) in 1910- Died 2001 was a Greek Seismologist who is most commonly known for his research on the lost Atlantis. He was appointed national representative of Greece to various international organizations related to Seismology. Due to some discrepancies in Plato's theory of Atlantis, he and others saw that the chronology was a concern and also the description of land and culture was inconsistent.

=Education= He graduated from the School of Sciences of the National University of Athens in 1932.

Advanced Degrees
He was awarded a PH.D in Seismology in 1937

=Career Titles= In 1934 became an Assistant to the Seismological Laboratory of National University of Athens. Angelos was elected as Senior Lecturer of Seismology in 1943, then in 1944 elected to be a Senior Lecturer in the National Technical University of Athens(N.T.U.A). It did not stop there, he also became Director of the Institute of Geo-dynamics of the National Observatory of Athens where he served until 1978. In 1959 Galanopoulos was elected to full professor of Seismology in N.U.A where he served till 1978.

=Travels= 1950 he received a research fellowship at the University of Toronto in Canada. 1951 he worked in the Seismological Laboratory in Pasadena California.

=Theories= Scholars for many years have been attempting to tackle the mysteries of the lost Atlantis. Angelos proposed that the island of Thera, modern Santorini was Atlantis in 1969 Edward Bacon, archaeologist and co-author with Angelos on the book Atlantis; the truth behind the legend believed that geological and archaeological research confirms that this legendary kingdom Atlantis did exist on the island of Santorini in the Aegean.

Angelos first proposed that the catastrophic eruption of the volcanic island of Santorini in the Mediterranean in 1500 b.c was the disaster that sunk Atlantis and he said that it probably wiped out most civilization on the Greek islands and regions of Greece In 1967, Santorini was a half-sunken caldera, and a buried city that perished in the catastrophe-Akrotiri then was was uncovered by a Greek archaeologist Spyridon Marinatos. Angelos argues that Plato had his dates wrong by a factor of ten: Saying that the lost civilization was submerged 900 years, not 9000 years before Solon

Excavations on Santorini
Galanopoulos obtained the samples of carbon from under the layers of volcanic dust thrown out at the time of the explosion, and subjecting them to the method of radio-carbon dating, has established that the catastrophe occurred 3,300 years ago, plus or minus 100 years before the present, that is, within 100 years before or after 1460 B.C. This date agrees with the archaeological estimates of the time of the final destruction of the Palace of Knossos, which was placed at the end of the 14th century B.C

Professor Galanopoulos made a drawing of the Metropolis of Atlantis according to Plato's description, and has shown how exactly it fits in to the plan of the island of Santorini. It may seem that the riddle of Atlantis has finally been solved.



=Influences= Vassilis Papazachos was a former assistant of Professor Angelos Galanopoulos in geophysics

=Criticism= Angelos supported the idea that the Egyptian hieroglyphic for 100 was misread as 1000 and so decreased all numbers in Plato's text by factors of ten. This explanation does not stand up to scrutiny, as the Egyptian hieroglyphics are distinctly different.

A proposal made by Galanopoulos concerning the Exodus that the miracle of the parting of the waters can be explained in terms ofthe tsunami resulting from the Santorini explosion was not convincing and that these proposals in effect merely invoking another miracle to explain the one for which he is seeking a natural explanation

=Works= Professor Galanopoulos wrote numerous paper son seismology, seismotectonics and seismic hazard of Greece.

Books The books written by Angelos include:

''-Atlantis; the truth behind the legend

-Die Wahrheit über Atlantis''

-Katalog der Erdbeben in Griechenland für die Zeit von 1879 bis 1892

-''Atlantide (L'). La vérité derriere la légende''

-Greece : a catalog of shocks with I₀ [mathematical sign of greater than or equal to] VI or M [mathematical sign of greater than or equal to] 5 for the years 1801-1958

-''Aftershock sequence and crustal structure in the region of Greece

-The earthquake activity in the physiographic provinces of the eastern Mediterranean Sea''

=Death= Died in Athens in 2001

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