Jean-Loup Puget (born 7 March 1947) is a French
astrophysicist. His current research interests lie in the
Cosmic Microwave Background
In Big Bang cosmology the cosmic microwave background (CMB, CMBR) is electromagnetic radiation that is a remnant from an early stage of the universe, also known as "relic radiation". The CMB is faint cosmic background radiation filling all spac ...
. Jean-Loup Puget and his collaborators reported the first identification of the
Cosmic infrared background
Cosmic infrared background is infrared radiation caused by stellar dust.
History
Recognizing the cosmological importance of the darkness of the night sky ( Olbers' paradox) and the first speculations on an extragalactic background light date ...
using
COBE data. He is also, along with Alain Léger, credited with the origin of the hypothesis that the series of infrared lines observed in numerous astrophysical objects are caused by emission from
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
A polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) is a class of organic compounds that is composed of multiple aromatic rings. The simplest representative is naphthalene, having two aromatic rings and the three-ring compounds anthracene and phenanthrene. ...
. He is currently principal investigator of the HFI module of the
Planck
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (, ; 23 April 1858 – 4 October 1947) was a German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.
Planck made many substantial contributions to theoretical p ...
space mission.
He served two terms as director of the
Institut d'astrophysique spatiale from 1998 to 2005.
He has been a member of the
Académie des sciences
The French Academy of Sciences (French: ''Académie des sciences'') is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research. It was at th ...
(
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ...
) since 2002 and was awarded the
Prix Jean Ricard in 1989. He received the
COSPAR
The Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) was established on October 3, 1958 by the International Council for Scientific Unions (ICSU). Among COSPAR's objectives are the promotion of scientific research in space on an international level, wi ...
Space Science Award in 2014.
Jean-Loup Puget,
Nazzareno Mandolesi and
ESA
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Planck
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (, ; 23 April 1858 – 4 October 1947) was a German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.
Planck made many substantial contributions to theoretical p ...
team were awarded 2018
Gruber Prize in Cosmology
The Gruber Prize in Cosmology, established in 2000, is one of three prestigious international awards worth US$500,000 made by the Gruber Foundation, a non-profit organization based at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
Since 2001, the G ...
for their definitive measurements of the properties of our expanding universe. In 2018 he received the
Shaw Prize in Astronomy.
Bibliography
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References
External links
Page on the site of the Académie des Sciences
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French astrophysicists
20th-century French astronomers
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
1947 births
Living people
People from Saône-et-Loire