Dimitrios Stroumpos (Greek: Δημήτριος Στρούμπος; 1806 - February 5, 1890) was an astronomer, physicist, mathematician, author, and professor.

[1] His contemporaries at the time were Greek scientists Vassilios Lakon, Georgios Konstantinos Vouris, and Ioannis Papadakis.

He was replaced as the chair of the physics department by his student world-renowned physicist Timoleon Argyropoulos after his death.

The Christian religion surpassed new scientific ideas for hundreds of years within the Greek community.

He researched and promoted every new physics idea and kept open communication with all the prominent European scientists at the time.

Ioannis Kapodistrias sent Dimitrios and Petros to study in Europe on a scholarship from the Greek government.

André-Marie Ampère and Joseph Fourier were notable faculty associated with the institution at the time.

Notable students attending the prestigious school while Dimitrios was at the institution were: Henri Victor Regnault, Joseph Louis François Bertrand, Auguste Bravais and Hervé Faye.

Regrettably, one of the most important Greek-Austrian astronomers Georgios Konstantinos Vouris was sent back to Austria due to the political uncertainty and his association with the Kings motherland during the 1850s.

During this time his grade school teacher Athanassios Sakellarios received a Phd from the University.

Stroumpos gave an incredible speech outlining the importance of modern scientific advancement.

Early in his speech he discussed Francis Bacon, Galileo Galilei, and Isaac Newtown.

Towards the end of his historic speech he made six points about scientific advancement a) sciences independence from religion was crucial, b) he stressed the importance of experimental method, c) the search for truth, d) investigation on how the world was created, he was inline with darwins theory of evolution, e) scientists should search for natural laws to explain all phenomena, and f) special theories or hypotheses should be established to explain all phenomena.

[4][11] On May 10, 1859, a political incident called the skiadika (σκιαδικά) occurred involving students of the University and Stroumbos.

Stroumpos was in constant communication with the international scientific community namely France.

In the 1880s he invented an instrument for measuring magnetic declination and inclination known as the stroumbo compass.

[13] He researched the works of Wilhelm Holtz namely dealing with electric machines.