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 ...

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) 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

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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.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Puget, Jean Loup French astrophysicists 20th-century French astronomers Members of the French Academy of Sciences 1947 births Living people People from Saône-et-Loire