In age 77 years passed away Physics teacher and secretary of SYRIZA to Salty Volos, Christos Trikalinos.

According to local media, his relatives found him dead, sitting in his office chair, after he had not shown signs of life for 3 days.

He was suffering from health problems and it is estimated that his death is due to pathological causes.

With “deep pain and heartache” SYRIZA-PS and the SYRIZA youth of Magnesia say goodbye to Christos Trikalinos

With the farewell announcement, they note that “in addition to his important academic and trade union activity, his struggles to support the public University and the needs of students, Christos Trikalinos was a man with deep faith in the ideas he served”.

The entire announcement

It is with deep sorrow and heartbreak that we say goodbye to our partner, coordinator of the SYRIZA-PS Almyrou organization, Christos Trikalinos.

Christos Trikalinos was an internationally renowned physics professor, professor emeritus of the University of Athens and had been president of the Panhellenic Federation of Research and Teaching Staff (POSDEP) A.E.I. from 1998 to 2004.

Beyond his important academic and trade union activity, his struggles to support the public University and the needs of students, Christos Trikalinos was a man with deep faith in the ideas he served.

From an early age he experienced the persecutions and deprivations during the difficult years of the civil war and the post-war period. He lived in exile in Trikeri where his aunts with whom he grew up were kept and experienced in his childhood and adolescence the stigmatization suffered by all the families of the defeated in post-conflict Greece and especially in the countryside. He captured all of the above with tenderness in a wonderful book that left us with snapshots from his life.

He had also written 4 university textbooks, a popular physics book and participated in the writing of high school physics books. He published many articles of general interest in the daily and periodical press of the country, while he translated 2 literary books from Russian.

His parents were leading members of the KKE. They suffered the pursuit of the right-wing state, with the consequence that he encountered them for the first time in his life in his old age.

As a student he was active in the Lambrakis Youth, continued his studies in the USSR, where he was honored with important distinctions, and returned to Greece in the early 1980s. From 1981 to 2013 he taught at the University of Athens. In the period 1981-2006 in the Department of Physics and in the period 2006-2013 in the Department of Methodology and History of Sciences.

His international scientific acclaim was unique for a Greek scientist, while at the same time he fought passionately for another society. Always organized along the lines of the Left. From the KKE to Synaspsis and then to SYRIZA.

In the last years of his life he lived in his birthplace, Almyros, and participated in all the important events of the political and cultural life of Magnesia.

He will live forever in our hearts and his memory will be an endless source of inspiration for us.

We express our condolences to his relatives and to his comrades in the organization of Almyros.

Who was the deceased?

Christos Trikalinos was born in 1946 in Volos. He studied Physics at Lomonosov State University in Moscow, where he prepared his doctoral thesis. From 1981 to 2013 he taught at the University of Athens. In the period 1981-2006 in the Department of Physics and in the period 2006-2013 in the Department of Methodology and History of Sciences. He went through all the academic ranks, from Curator to Professor.
He had written 4 university textbooks, a popular physics book and participated in the writing of high school physics books. He published many articles of general interest in the daily and periodical press of the country.

He translated 2 literary books from Russian. He was the president of the Panhellenic Federation of Research and Teaching Staff (POSDEP) A.E.I. from 1998 to 2004. He was for several years a member of the Central Committee of General Examinations and a tutor in Physics.
He retired in 2013 and since 2014 has been Professor Emeritus.

He spoke about his latest book entitled “Drops of Memory” on Sto Kokkino 105.5 and on the broadcast of journalist Alexis Vakis “Edodima kai oikiaka” in March 2022.