1. Jean-Pierre Luminet was born on 3 June 1951 and is a French astrophysicist, specializing in black holes and cosmology.
19 Facts About Jean-Pierre Luminet
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Jean-Pierre Luminet is an emeritus research director at the CNRS.
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Jean-Pierre Luminet has been awarded several prizes on account of his work in pure science and science communication, including the Georges Lemaitre Prize in recognition of his work in cosmology.
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Jean-Pierre Luminet serves on the editorial board of Inference: The International Review of Science.
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The asteroid 5523 Jean-Pierre Luminet, discovered in 1991 at Palomar Observatory, was named after him.
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Jean-Pierre Luminet has published fifteen science books, seven historical novels, TV documentaries, and six poetry collections.
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Jean-Pierre Luminet is an artist, an engraver, a sculptor, and a musician.
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Jean-Pierre Luminet met Stephen Hawking at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics in Cambridge, England.
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In 1979, Jean-Pierre Luminet got a permanent research position at the CNRS and developed his scientific activities at Paris Observatory until 2014, before joining the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille.
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In 1978, Jean-Pierre Luminet created the first "image" of a black hole with an accretion disk, using nothing but an early computer, math, and India ink.
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Jean-Pierre Luminet predicted that it could apply to the supermassive black hole in the core of the elliptical galaxy M87.
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In 1982, along with physicist Brandon Carter, Jean-Pierre Luminet invented the concept of a Tidal disruption event, the destruction of a star passing in the vicinity of a supermassive black hole.
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In 1995, with his colleague Marc Lachieze-Rey, Jean-Pierre Luminet coined the term "Cosmic Topology" for describing the shape of space, proposing a variety of universe models compatible with the standard Friedmann-Lemaitre models of relativistic cosmology.
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In 2003, large scale anomalies in the anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background observed by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe led to Jean-Pierre Luminet suggesting that the shape of the universe is a finite dodecahedron, attached to itself by paired opposite faces, forming a Poincare homology sphere.
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Jean-Pierre Luminet is a specialist in the history of cosmology and in particular the emergence of the concept of the Big Bang.
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Jean-Pierre Luminet emphasizes in several books and articles the leading role played by the Belgian priest and cosmologist Georges Lemaitre.
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Jean-Pierre Luminet is devoted to drawing, engraving, and sculpture.
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In 1998, Jean-Pierre Luminet was a curator of the exhibition Figures du Ciel, coupled to the opening of the new Bibliotheque nationale de France.
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Jean-Pierre Luminet has received more than twenty prizes and honors, including:.