Peter Throckmorton
First researcher to have study the Antikythera ship.
Article and/or book author
Eleni Kladaki-Vratsanou
Eleni Kladaki-Vratsanou (in Greek: Ελένη Κλαδάκη-Βρατσάνου) is an engineer of Symian origin, former secretary of the Society of Friends of the National Archaeological Museum. She complied the first reliable list of the initial crew that did the first dive in Antikythera.
Jo Marchant
Jo Marchant is a freelance journalist specialising in science and history. She first heard of the Antikythera mechanism in November 2006, when she was working as an editor at the science journal Nature. A research paper was due to be published revealing the workings of this sophisticated ancient device. The story grabbed her immediately, so she travelled to Athens to see the remains of the mechanism and to meet the scientists who were studying it.
Her feature article, In Search of Lost Time was published in Nature alongside Freeth et al.'s paper. She then wrote a book, Decoding the Heavens, telling the 100-year story of efforts to decode the Antikythera mechanism. The book was published in November 2008 and was shortlisted for the Royal Society science book prize in 2009.
She has since written several other articles about the mechanism, including Archimedes and the 2000-year-old computer for New Scientist, Mechanical Inspiration for Nature, and Return to Antikythera: what divers discovered in the deep for The Guardian. She then wrote The Shadow King: the bizarre afterlife of King Tut's mummy, published in June 2013. Her most recent book, Cure: A journey into the science of mind over body, was published in February 2016.
Francis Nimal
One of the greatest fans of the Antikythera Mechanism. Francis Nimal is a French retired engineer, sceptic since he read an article about the "Machine d' Anticythère" in "Science et Vie" (1959). Since then, he is convinced that the Antikythera Mechanism is a fake, not an ancient device, but build around the 17th century. His persistence and the answers to some of his useful questioning allow researchers to firmly establish the fact that the Mechanism is a genuine Hellenistic device.
Yanis Bitsakis
Yanis Bitsakis got his BSc in Physics at the Faculty of Physics of Athens University, and a MSc in History of Science and Technology from the joint program at the University of Athens and the National Technical University of Athens. He is currently completing a PhD thesis on "The history of the Antikythera Mechanism and its educational implications".
From 2002, he worked at FORTH Photonics, a spin-off company of the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, as application specialist for the MuSIS systems (Multispectral Imaging System), in the field of analysis and conservation of objects of artistic and historical value; During this period, his major interest was the analysis and recovery of erased and overwritten texts on Byzantine parchments (palimpsests), in the scope of the "Rinascimento Virtuale" European program.
He joined the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project in 2005, as coordinator of the logistics of the data gathering phase and subsequently, as coordinator of the research on the inscriptions. He is now involved in educational and public understanding in relation to the Antikythera Mechanism, organizing conferences, lectures and exhibitions, developing and maintaining the website of the research project.
He is a member of the History, Philosophy and Didactics of Science and Technology Programme, a founding member of the Hellenic Society of History, Philosophy and Didactics of Science, member of the Association of Ancient Greek Technology Studies and of the International Council of Museums.