# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kostas-soukoulis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:18:37.432Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kostas-soukoulis"
name: "Kostas Soukoulis"
slug: "kostas-soukoulis"
description: "Costas M. Soukoulis was a Greek physicist, who was a senior scientist in the Ames Laboratory and a Distinguished Professor of Physics Emeritus at Iowa State University. He received his B.Sc. from University of Athens in 1974. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Chicago in 1978, under the supervision of Kathryn Liebermann Levin. From 1978 to 1981 he was at the Physics Department at University of Virginia. He spent three years (1981–1984) at Exxon Research and Engineering Co. and from 1984 was at Iowa State University (ISU) and Ames Laboratory. He was part-time Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Technology of the University of Crete (2001–2011) and an associated member of IESL-FORTH at Heraklion, Crete, Greece, since 1984. He died on 14 March 2024, at the age of 73."
tagline: "Greek physicist (1951–2024)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Soukoulis_small.tif?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1951-01-15"
deathDate: "2024-03-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.336501333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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sources:
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    title: "Сукулис, Костас"
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    title: "كوستاس سوكوليس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costas_M._Soukoulis"
    title: "Costas M. Soukoulis"
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  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9A%CF%8E%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B1%CF%82_%CE%A3%CE%BF%CF%8D%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%BB%CE%B7%CF%82"
    title: "Κώστας Σούκουλης"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costas_Soukoulis"
    title: "Costas Soukoulis"
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    title: "کاستاس سوکولیس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costas_Soukoulis"
    title: "Costas Soukoulis"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump