Anne-Marie Lagrange

Anne-Marie Lagrange (born March 12, 1962 in the Rhône-Alpes region ) is a French astrophysicist, known for research on exoplanets .

Lagrange studied at the École polytechnique from 1982 and obtained her DEA in astrophysics at the University of Paris VII in 1986 . In 1989 she received her doctorate at the Paris Institute for Astrophysics with Alfred Vidal-Madjar . As a post-doctoral student she was at the European Southern Observatory in Germany and Chile and met the astrophysicist Pierre Léna . From 1990 she was at the Laboratoire d'astrophysique de Grenoble (LAOG) under Alain Omont and formed a group for the discovery of exoplanets . In 1994 she completed her habilitation and became the CNRS ' Chargé de Recherche . From 1997 to 2000 she was responsible for NAOS (one of the adaptive optics ) at the Very Large Telescope in Chile and from 2003 she was also responsible for its successor, Sphere. In 2000 she became research director of the CNRS, where she was deputy director of the Institut national des sciences de l'univers (INSU) from 2004 to 2006 and was responsible for the astronomy and astrophysics department of the CNRS. From 2007 she was back in Grenoble (LAOG, from 2011 it became the Institut de planétologie et d'astrophysique de Grenoble, IPAG).

In the 1990s, she obtained direct images of exoplanets using the then new adaptive optics. She explored giant planets around young stars and in 2005 she made the first direct observation of a planet around a brown dwarf . In 2008 you also get direct images of the large exoplanet (Beta Pictoris b) at Beta Pictoris . She has been observing the star, which has long been believed to be a planet, since 1993.

In 2013 she became a member of the Académie des sciences . In 2005 she received the Prix de la Fondation Cino del Duca, in 2003 the Prix Deslandres, in 2006 the Prix Rayonnement Français, in 2011 the Prix Irène-Joliot-Curie, in 1994 the bronze medal of the CNRS and in 2017 the Prix ​​Jean Ricard . She is a knight (2010) and since 2015 an officer of the Legion of Honor . From 2014 she was on the French Research Council (Conseil stratégique de la recherche, CSR).

Books

• Observer le ciel de nuit, Paris: Nathan 1998
• Fascicule d'astronomie pour les jeunes, Nathan, 1999.
• with Serge Brunier : Les grands observatoires du monde, Paris, Éditions Bordas, 2002
• with Pierre Léna, Hervé Dole: L'observation en astronomie, Paris, Éditions Ellipses, 2009

literature

• Pierre Léna: Anne-Marie Lagrange, in Béatrice Didier, Antoinette Fouque, Mireille Calle-Gruber (eds.), Le Dictionnaire universel des créatrices, Éditions des femmes / Antoinette Fouque 2015, Google Books