He had discovered Neptune’s rings in 1984. André Brahic was one of the leading specialists in our solar system. French scientist died Sunday morning in Paris at the age of 73, France Info reported. “Let’s be excited! We have never lived so old and we have never been so well looked after, pass the love of science! The idea of progress is still alive! Europe will decline further as an she will love science, “he told us in 2012.
global expert in the solar system, Brahic André was born in 1942 in Paris in a modest family. He died of cancer. “It was a brilliant character and extraordinary, extraordinarily warm, deep and authentic, a great scholar and also a storyteller, a writer,” said Odile Jacob, the editor.
A co -discovery rings Neptune
Introduced to astrophysics by Evry Schatzman, the disciplinary father in France after the war he became in the 1980s a specialist in solar system exploration conducted by the Voyager spacecraft and the US-European Cassini party in 1997, which continues to rotate around Saturn. About Saturn’s rings, he explained that Saturn’s rings are “one of the oldest objects in astronomy since we study began in July 1609″.
André Brahic was then launched in 1984 a program that allows it to co-discover the rings of another Neptune gaseous planet with the American astronomer William Hubbard. The last ring is divided into four arcs of which three were discovered initially by André Brahic who gave them the names of “Freedom”, “Equality” “Brotherhood” in reference to the French national motto, while the last arc was found by one of her colleagues.
François Hollande welcomes “a wonderful teacher”
astrophysicist at CEA and professor at the University Paris-Diderot, he also led the Gamma-gravity laboratory. In 1990, the asteroid 3488 located in the belt of the solar system was named in his honor Brahic. prolific popularizer, he has published five books, including Children of the Sun in 1999 Star Lights 2008 Editions Odile Jacob. His latest book on exoplanets Lands elsewhere. Are we alone in the universe? was published last year by the same publisher. Juilllet In 2015, he received the Legion of Honour.
In a statement, President Francois Hollande welcomed a great scholar “who knew how to make simple the mysteries of heaven.” It “was also a wonderful teacher whose books and interventions made us travel in space,” the statement added. La France “loses a prodigious and cheerful scientist whose only plan was to share his passion to as many”
Landmarks
1942 -. Birth in Paris
1976 -.. First dynamic model of Saturn’s rings
1978 -. professor at the Paris-VII
1981 – team Member imaging probe “Voyager”
1984 -.. Discovery of Neptune’s rings
1990 – gives its name to the asteroid 3488
. 1991 – Member of the probe’s imaging team “Cassini”
1997 -.. Founded laboratory at CEA
2000 -. Carl Sagan Price
2006 -. Jean-Perrin Price
2015 -. Died in Paris
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