# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-hugh-seiradhakis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:23:38.365Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-hugh-seiradhakis"
name: "John Hugh Seiradhakis"
slug: "john-hugh-seiradhakis"
description: "John Seiradakis was a Greek astronomer and professor emeritus at the Department of Physics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is best known for his contributions in the understanding of radio pulsars, the Galactic Center and archaeoastronomy. Since the early 2000s he was heavily involved in the decoding of the Antikythera mechanism. He was a founding member of the Hellenic Astronomical Society, the European Astronomical Society and the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA)."
tagline: "Greek astronomer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Seiradakis.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1948-03-05"
deathDate: "2020-05-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.94
  momentum:             2.368421052631579
  historical:           4.603384
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "John Hugh Seiradakis"
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  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%93%CE%B9%CE%AC%CE%BD%CE%BD%CE%B7%CF%82_%CE%A7._%CE%A3%CE%B5%CE%B9%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%B4%CE%AC%CE%BA%CE%B7%CF%82"
    title: "Γιάννης Χ. Σειραδάκης"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hugh_Seiradakis"
    title: "John Hugh Seiradakis"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yannis_Hugh_Seiradakis"
    title: "Yannis Hugh Seiradakis"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hugh_Seiradakis"
    title: "John Hugh Seiradakis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75262024"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump