Hubert Reeves

Hubert Reeves , born on July 13rd, 1932 with Montreal, is a Canadian astrophysicist (Québécois). He is married in Camille Scoffier-Reeves.

Biography

Hubert Reeves makes his traditional studies at the Jésuites, with the Collège Jean-with-Brébeuf. Registered with the Faculty of Science of the University of Montreal, it obtains a science baccalaureat in Physique (1953), then it presents, with the Université McGill, a report of control entitled Formation off Positronium in Hydrogen and Helium (1955). It continues its studies in nuclear Astrophysique with the Université Cornell (Ithaca, N.Y.), where it supports its thesis of doctorate (1960): Thermonuclear Reaction Involving Medium Light Nuclei . Of 1960 with 1964, it teaches physics at the University of Montreal, while being to advise scientist with NASA. Since 1965, it lives in France, where he is research director with the National center of scientific research.

In 1971, it publishes with two of its students, J. Audouze and Mr. Meneguzzi, a fundamental article concerning the stellar Nucléosynthèse. Fourteen years after the famous article B2FH, this article made it possible to fill the existing vacuum between the elements manufactured at the time of the Big Bang (H, He and some traces of Li) and those produced at the time of the life of stars, that is to say all those located after the Carbone in the periodic Tableau of the elements of Dmitri Mendeleïev. Just like B2FH, this key article are more known under the initial ones of its authors: MAR.

One of the pupils of Hubert Reeves, Jean Audouze, was director of the Institut of Astrophysics of Paris, director of the Cité of Sciences and Industry and director of the Palais of discovered the.

Hubert Reeves however devotes a third of his time to popularization, like many other colleagues, of which Jean-Louis Heudier: “ I believe , says it, which the Communication of the knowledge is at least as important as the advance of knowledge: it is unhealthy and sometimes dangerous to cultivate the secrecy mandarinal around science ”.

Its principal works, Patience in the azure , Dust of stars and the Hour of enivrer , were an enormous success and were translated in several languages. Its last but one delivers, Mal Earth , is a worrying report but not alarmist of the state of the Ground. The last work takes again as for him the text of its weekly chronicles diffused on France Culture since the autumn 2003.

In addition, Hubert Reeves takes part in television programs of scientific popularization, of which emblématique is undoubtedly the Nuit of the stars , diffused on the French public channel France 2.

Since 2001 it chairs the Ligue ROCK for the safeguarding of the wildlife and the defense of the not-hunters , association French recognized law 1901 of public utility. He is member of the committee of sponsorship of the French Coordination for the Decade of the culture of Paix and non-violence.

In 2007, some of its thoughts are used in the album the simple one with nothing, Ogres of Barback.

Honorary titles and distinctions

In 1999, the Astéroïde (9631) Hubertreeves was named in its honor by the international astronomical Union.

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