Konstantinos Fostiropoulos

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Full Name	Konstantinos Fostiropoulos
Occupation	Scientist
Date Of Birth	Jun 20, 1960(1960-06-20)
Age	64
Birthplace	Krya Vrysi, Pella
Birth City	Krya Vrysi, Pella
Horoscope	Gemini

Konstantinos Fostiropoulos Biography

Konstantinos Fostiropoulos is one of the most popular and richest Scientist who was born on June 20, 1960 in Krya Vrysi, Pella, Krya Vrysi, Pella, ****. Fostiropoulos was born 20 June 1960 in Krya Vrysi, Pella, Greece, to Anastasios Fostiropoulos and Lemonia Fostiropoulou (née Atmatzidou) the second of three children (Niko, Kosta, Eleni). In 1961 his father emigrated to Mannheim, Germany, where later his wife followed with their two sons when Fostiropoulos was four years old. There, five years later his sister Eleni was born. Until they retired his parents Anastasios and Lemonia had been working as labourer and cleaner, respectively. In 2015 they re-immigrated in Greece, together with his sister Eleni and her family. His brother Niko has been elected town counsellor in Karlsruhe, Germany and is owner of the centre for further education alfatraining.

Fostiropoulos studied physics at the nearby Heidelberg University where he was, particularly, intrigued by the Grand Unified Theory, laser physics and molecular physics. He obtained his Diploma after having joined the research group of Bernhard Schramm, Institute of Physical Chemistry. In February 1989 he attended the “Dust Group” of Hugo Fechtig, Department Cosmophysics at Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, where he worked as doctoral candidate on his thesis “C60 – eine neue Form des Kohlenstoffs”. In February 1992 he received his Ph.D. from Heidelberg University.

The NATURE publication had been accepted 7 September 1990. On this occasion Fostiropoulos had the opportunity to meet and discuss with Rick Smalley the later Nobel Laureate (1996) on a conference when he invited him and Krätschmer “to come to Konstanz and use a fraction of Smalley’s lecture time” (12 September 1990) where Krätschmer reported their break-through in preparation of large amounts of fullerenes. A few days later Harry Kroto, also Nobei Laureate (1996), and his wife Margaret unexpectedly visited the Heidelberg scientists on their way back from a conference in Yugoslavia. Kroto presented Fostiropoulos and Krätschmer with a bottle of “red wine” Châteauneuf-du-Pape

1985. On the last working day before Christmas 1990 Fostiropoulos and Krätschmer enjoyed Kroto’s wine at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg.

In summer 1990 during a cooperation at the Heidelberg University on Raman spectroscopy to verify the hypothetical “football” structure of the molecule one of the partners expressed carefully his concerns: “hopefully it is not a cold fusion ;-)” referring to the most famous erratum at that time published by Martin Fleischmann et al. 1989.

During his early career (1989-1993) Fostiropoulos was granted three times fellowships from the Max Planck Society for his fundamental research on the synthesis of fullerenes and their characterization.

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From 1986-88 Fostiropoulos was investigating effects of intermolecular forces in real gases at the Institute of Physical Chemistry, Heidelberg University. One focus was to study the thermodynamic properties of freons in order to substitute them by environmentally compatible substances in refrigerator units.

In September 1987 a young volunteering student, Bernd Wagner, joined the “Dust Group” of astrophysicist Hugo Fechtig at Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics for a few weeks. There, under the supervision of Fechtig’s assistant Wolfgang Krätschmer Wagner had been performing such carbon vapour experiments using the contact arc method (2) when he accidentally changed the pressure conditions. As a result, he received traces of carbon dust with additional weak IR absorption features unknown to him. However, the result was not considered further, when Wagner left, but was deemed “impurities from pump oil” or simply “junk”. In January 1989 Fostiropoulos joined Fechtig’s group, where he picked up the “accidental” experiment. After a few weeks assessment period he decided to study as part of his Ph.D. the three kinds of thermal evaporation processes in detail and, subsequently, he developed new process parameters for each. Accordingly, in 1989 Fostiropoulos was the first to synthesize C60 the first molecular carbon modification applying initially a contact arc process (2) with specific experimental conditions for fast electrode degradation, hence, accelerated carbon evaporation. Moreover, he developed a method to sinter graphite rods from commercially available “amorphous” C carbon dust. Applying a resistive heating process (3) and using such “isotopic” graphite rods, a few days before New Year’s Eve 1989, he synthesized for the first time an unusual material which contained an exotic species: “isotopic” C60, From that he, casually, proved the existence of an all-carbon molecule with icosahedral “platonic” symmetry and truncated icosahedron “archimedean” shape predicted by Kroto et al. 1985: C60 “Buckminsterfullerene”!

In 1989 Fostiropoulos was the first to synthesize C60, a molecular carbon modification, in preparative amounts by a specifically developed vacuum process. After the discovery of the molecule 1985 by Kroto et al., Fostiropoulos’ work contributed essentially to the establishment of fundamental fullerene research as well as its applications. In 2001/2002 he presented a bilayer heterojunction concept for organic photovoltaic devices applying vacuum processes for the formation of a molecular absorber layer consisting of Zn-phthalocyanine and C60 molecules achieving a then world record power conversion efficiency of 2.5% for such devices.

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After the abortion of his first scientific career by the end of 1993 Fostiropoulos worked in various jobs from 1994 till 1997 when he joined the Hellenic Army to perform his military service.

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During his time as research fellow at the Institut für Medienkommunikation (IMK) of the former GMD-Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik [de] in Sankt Augustin near Bonn, Fostiropoulos’ relationship to his colleague Simone Lahme, a web designer and specialist for e-learning, began on the occasion of the Total Solar eclipse of August 11, 1999, which they had been observing together in Karlsruhe. They married in 2004 and have two children, Timon and Melina.