His life, as described by the author in his memoirs, is a jumble of events charged with a gamut of emotions ranging from unspeakable terror to triumphant ecstasy. He lived an unhappy childhood at a low social level, was threatened with death by Germans, hunted by the police and finally took off in an unexpectedly triumphant career, but still struggles to find his own Ithaca for redemption...
Turning Happiness
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Vasilios Dimitriadis,Vasilios Dimitriadis was born in 1929 in Thessaloniki. He lived there until he graduated from High School. In 1948 he moved to Athens for university studies. He studied chemical engineering at the National Technical University of Athens and served his three-year term as an Ensign of the Navy, at the Naval School of Poros. In 1957 he went to America for postgraduate studies with a Fulbright scholarship. In 1961 he graduated from the University of Miami, Florida, with a PhD in Physical Chemistry. In 1962 he was hired by the US Department of the Interior as a research chemist at the Bartlesville Research Center in Oklahoma. In 1970 he was transferred to the National Air Pollution Research Center in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he worked as a Senior Advisor to the US Department of the Environment and as the US Representative to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development until the end of his professional career in 2010. In 2012 moved to Thessaloniki where he lives until today.
Weight | 0.5 kg |
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Writer | Vasilios Dimitriadis |
Pages | 184 |
Size | 14x21 cm |
Publisher | iWrite Publications |
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