Jean-Pierre Luminet
Jean -Pierre Luminet ( born June 3, 1951 in Cavaillon ) is a French astronomer and astrophysicist and writer. He is a Research Director of the CNRS at the Observatory of Paris - Meudon and there at the Laboratoire Univers et Theories ( LUTH ).
Luminet 1979 was a pioneer in the calculation of gravitational lensing effects of black holes and examined in 1982 with Brandon Carter the destruction of stars by tidal forces in the vicinity of supermassive black holes with the derivation of signatures that were confirmed by the Chandra and XMM X-ray satellite in 2004. From the 1990s, it deals with the topology of the universe and methods to draw conclusions from CMB data on conclusions. He collaborated with Marc Lachieze -Rey, Jeffrey Weeks, Jean -Philippe Uzan and others. In 2003, he struck with Weeks, Uzan et al in this context from WMAP data, a dodecahedron topology before ( according to the model by Henri Poincaré ).
He is the author of many popular books, including the history of cosmology. He also wrote novels and poems.
In 1999 he received the Prix Georges Lemaître and in 2006 the Prix Paul -Émile Doistau Bleeds de l' Information Scientifique. The asteroid 5523 Luminet is named after him.
Writings
Popular Scientific:
- With other Aux confins de l' Univers 1987
- Les Trous Noirs, Paris, Belfond 1987 German translation: black holes, Vieweg 1997
- English translation: Black Holes, Cambridge University Press 1992
- English Translation: Glorious Eclipses: their past, present and future, Cambridge University Press 2000
- English Translation: The wraparound universe, AK Peters 2008
- English Translation: Celestial treasury: from the music of the spheres to the conquest of space, Cambridge University Press 2001
Some essays:
- A cosmic hall of mirrors, Physics World, 18, 2005, 22-28
- Black holes. A general introduction, in secret, Pine, Metzler (eds.), Black Holes, Springer Verlag 1998
Novels:
- Rendezvous with Venus or the love of astronomy, CH Beck 2005 ( novel about the observation of the Transit of Venus 1761)
- Alexandria novel a library, dtv 2005