Paul Ledoux

Paul Ledoux ( born August 8, 1914 in a prosperous era; † 6 October 1988 ) was a Belgian astronomer and astrophysicist.

Ledoux studied physics from 1933 to 1937 at the University of Liege. In 1939 he went to Oslo, where he was introduced by Svein Rosseland in matters of structure and stability of stars. After the occupation of Norway by the German army in 1940, he went first to Stockholm and then traveled through Siberia in the United States. There he joined the staff of the Yerkes Observatory. There he learned the astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, with whom he formed a lifelong friendship.

In 1941, he joined the Belgian armed forces in the UK and worked there and in North Africa as a meteorologist for the Royal Air Force. After his discharge from the army he put in Liege before his dissertation work and then returned for a year at the Yerkes Observatory. From 1947 he worked for the Meteorological Service of the National Aviation Administration of Belgium, from 1949 he taught at the University of Liège, where he was professor of astronomy, astrophysics, analytical mechanics, geodesy, hydrodynamics and meteorology from 1959.

From 1972 to 1975, President of the Higher Ledoux Sing Program Committee of the European Southern Observatory ( ESO), 1981-1985 Member of the ESO Council. He has won the Prix Francqui (1964 ), the Prix décennal awarded the appliquées Mathématiques (1968), the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1972) and the Médaille J. Jansen of the Académie des sciences.

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  • Astrophysics and Space Science 155, 1989, p 179-80
  • Harvard University - SAO / NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS ) - Paul Ledoux
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