!!George Veis

[Obituary|https://iag-aig.org/doc/6220dcf5eb443.pdf], D.D. Balodimos, International Association of Geodesy
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!Biography

George Veis was born in Athens in 1929. In 1951, he graduated in Surveying Engineering
from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). In 1955, he received a
Greek state fellowship for advanced studies in Paris at the Sorbonne and the Ecole
Nationale des Sciences Geographiques. He spent some time also at the Observatoire de
Paris and at the Bureau Gravimetrique International. In 1957 he continued his studies at
the Ohio State University where he was awarded with his PhD in 1958, after defending
his famous dissertation on the ‘‘Geodetic Applications of Observations of the Moon,
Artificial Satellites and Rockets’’. In the early sixties George Veis returned to the
National Technical University of Athens where he was elected Professor of Surveying.
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[Tribute to Prof. Veis|https://despinarion.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/george-_veis]