Efthymios Nicolaidis

Affiliation: National Hellenic Research Foundation
Short CV: Efthymios Nicolaidis studied Physics (University of Orsay) and History of science (PhD 1982, EHSS, Paris). His main research areas are the spread and diffuse of European scientific knowledge, the history of science in the south-eastern Europe, science and eastern Orthodoxy and, finally, the history of scientific instruments. He is Secretary General of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science / Division of History of Science and Technology (member ICSU of UNESCO) and member of the Board of the International Academy of History of Science. Nicolaidis is co-editor of the Critical science and education, the Newsletter for the History of Science in Southeastern Europe and member of the board of Themes in Education, of Revue d'histoire des sciences and of Studies in Ottoman Science.
His has published on the reception, spreading and teaching of science, the scientific and technological modernisation during the 19th-20th c., the history of scientific instruments, the Byzantine science, and, finally on science and early Christianity.