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Nicholas Christofilos was born on 16 December, 1916, is a Greek physicist. Discover Nicholas Christofilos's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 55 years old?

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1916

Nicholas Constantine Christofilos (Νικόλαος Χριστοφίλου; December 16, 1916 – September 24, 1972) was a Greek physicist.

The Christofilos effect, a type of electromagnetic shielding, is named after him.

Christofilos was born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in Greece.

1938

He attended the National Technical University of Athens at age 18, and graduated with a degree in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering in 1938.

He remained in Greece during World War II, working for an Athens elevator maintenance company during the German occupation.

He later initiated his own elevator company.

During all of this, he maintained an amateur interest in accelerator physics and high-energy particle physics, and studied German and American texts concerning the subjects extensively.

1946

During 1946 he independently developed ideas for a synchrotron and in 1949 he conceived the strong-focusing principle for particle accelerators.

Rather than publishing in a journal he submitted a patent application in the US and Greece.

1952

His discovery was unnoticed for several years, and strong focusing was rediscovered by Ernest Courant et al. in 1952 (who acknowledged his priority one year later), and applied to accelerators at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Cornell University and CERN.

1953

Christofilos was offered a job at Brookhaven in 1953.

1956

In 1956 he joined Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to continue his work on the Astron, a proposed fusion reactor planned during Project Sherwood.

At LLNL, Christofilos worked on a number of military projects.

He became a member of the JASON Defense Advisory Group and was the principal researcher for Operation Argus, a series of high-altitude nuclear detonations intended to create a radiation belt in the upper regions of the Earth's atmosphere as a defence against Soviet ICBMs.

1958

In 1958 Christofilos proposed Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) waves as a way to communicate with submerged submarines, and subsequently invented the ground dipole, the only antenna that has proven practical for use at ELF frequencies.

His ideas were implemented by the U.S. Navy as Project Seafarer, which constructed huge ELF transmitter facilities in Michigan and Wisconsin consisting of 56 miles (90 km) of electric transmission line.

1963

In 1963 he was awarded the Elliott Cresson Medal.

Herbert York described Christofilos as follows:

1985

These were used from 1985 to 2004 for worldwide communication with U.S. nuclear submarines.