Achilles Papapetrou (1907 – 1997) born in Northern Greece, had
studied engineering in Athens. He received his PhD in theoretical physics 1935 at Technische
Hochschule Stuttgart, Germany, under the supervision of Peter Paul Ewald. In 1946 – 1948 he
became research fellow with Schrödinger at the Institute for Advanced Study in Dublin, later in
Manchester (1948 – 1952) with P. M. S. Blackett; then professor at the Academy of Sciences,
Berlin (1952 – 1961), and at the Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris 1960 – 1977.