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Jean-Pierre Luminet
French astrophysicist (born 1951) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jean-Pierre Luminet (born 3 June 1951) is a French astrophysicist, specializing in black holes and cosmology. He is an emeritus research director at the CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique). Luminet is a member of the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM) and Laboratoire Univers et Théories (LUTH) of the Paris-Meudon Observatory, and is a visiting scientist at the Centre de Physique Théorique (CPT) in Marseilles. He is also a writer and poet.
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![]() Jean-Pierre Luminet at Salon du Livre 2009 (Paris, France) | |
Born | (1951-06-03) June 3, 1951 (age 73) France |
Alma mater | Saint-Charles University of Marseilles Paris-Meudon Observatory Paris University (PhD) |
Known for | First computer simulation of a black hole, Tidal disruption event |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Astrophysics, cosmology |
Institutions | Centre national de la recherche scientifique Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille Laboratoire Univers et Théories |
Thesis | (1977) |
Doctoral advisor | Brandon Carter |
Luminet has been awarded several prizes on account of his work in pure science and science communication, including the Georges Lemaître Prize (1999) in recognition of his work in cosmology. In November 2021, he received the UNESCO Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science. He serves on the editorial board of Inference: The International Review of Science.[1]
The asteroid 5523 Luminet, discovered in 1991 at Palomar Observatory, was named after him.[2][3]
Luminet has published fifteen science books,[4] seven historical novels,[4] TV documentaries,[5] and six poetry collections. He is an artist, an engraver, a sculptor, and a musician.[6] During his music career, he has collaborated with composers such as Gérard Grisey[7] and Hèctor Parra.[8] Some of Luminet's literary works have been translated into other languages, such as Chinese, Korean, Bengali, German, Lithuanian, Greek, Italian or Spanish.[9]