Jean-Pierre Luminet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Jean-Pierre Luminet

French astrophysicist

Date of Birth: 03-Jun-1951

Place of Birth: Cavaillon, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Profession: astronomer, writer, poet, astrophysicist, lecturer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Jean-Pierre Luminet (born 3 June 1951) is a French astrophysicist, writer and poet, world-known specialist of black holes and cosmology.
He works as research director for the CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique), and is a member of the Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), of the Laboratoire Univers et Théories (LUTH) of the Paris-Meudon Observatory and a visiting scientist at the Centre de Physique Théorique (CPT) in Marseilles. He has published many articles in the most prestigious journals and reviews in these areas.
He has been awarded several prizes for his work in pure science and in science communication (see Honours and Recognition).
He also serves on the editorial boards of The Astronomical Review and Inference : The International Review of Science. The asteroid 5523 Luminet, discovered in 1991 at Mt Palomar Observatory, was named after him.Indeed one of Luminet’s greatest efforts has been to make his research work understandable to the non-scientific community.
Luminet is also a prominent figure in art and literature.
He has produced fifteen popular science books, seven historical novels, TV documentaries, multimedia productions, and six collections of poetry.
He is also an artist, an engraver, a sculptor and a musician.
He has collaborated with celebrated composers such as Gérard Grisey and Hèctor Parra. Luminet’s literary work has been translated into a dozen of languages.