Petros Rovithis

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Dr. Rovithis was born in Crete, Greece, on January 2, 1938 and passed away in Athens on March 11, 2020. He received his B.Sc. in Mathematics from the Athens University, Greece, (1963), and his Ph.D., from the same University (1976). He joined for three months as Visiting Research Fellow the Univ. of Manchester and the Haute Province Observatory. He has worked as Assistant at the Univ. of Athens, Greece (1960-1963), Astronomer at the Athens Planetarium of Eugenides Foundation (1967-1971), Assistant and Chief Assistant of the Astronomical Institute, of the National Observatory of Athens (NOA), Researcher, Chief Researcher of the same Institute, and in charge of the Kryonerion Station of NOA (1994-2001). He retired in 2001 and became Emeritus Chief Researcher, at then Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics. His areas of expertise and research interests included Observational Astrophysics and in particular the sun, diffuse nebulae, SN remnants, photometric and spectroscopic observations of variable stars such as CVs, eclipsing binaries and symbiotic stars. On these subjects he has published many scientific papers as well as 5 monographs and a large number of popular articles in Greek. He was also interested in the history of the astronomy and has written 8 popular books on various subjects. He has been permanent fellow in two popular scientific journals, of the encyclopaedia YDRIA. Moreover, for many years he was presenting all important observational events during the year in the Journal Uranus, published by the Society for Space and Astronomy at Volos, in which he was also an honorary member. He was member of IAU and founding member of the Hellenic Astronomical Society.
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