Jean-Loup Puget
Jean-Loup Puget (born March 7, 1947 in Chalon-sur-Saône ) is a French astrophysicist.
Puget studied from 1966 to 1970 at the École normal supérieure de Cachan . In 1973 he received his doctorate under Evry Schatzman , where he carried out his dissertation in 1970/71 at the University of Maryland and the Goddard Space Flight Center . He has been researching for the CNRS since 1973 . From 1978 to 1982 he was directeur adjoint of the Paris Observatory (and has been on its scientific council since 2002). From 1990 he was deputy director and from 1998 to 2005 director of the Institut d´astrophysique spatiale (IAS) in Orsay.
He deals with both theoretical and observational astrophysics, especially galactic and extragalactic gamma ray sources, the interstellar medium and the formation of stars and cosmology. In particular, he is known for astronomy in the infrared and at sub-millimeter wavelengths. For example, he was the first to identify the diffuse cosmic infrared background with COBE from the radiation of galaxies. He succeeded in discovering the infrared lines of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the interstellar medium and demonstrating that they are present there in large quantities.
He is the lead scientist of the HFI module in the Planck Space Telescope and was a lead scientist at the Infrared Space Observatory .
He is a member of the Académie des Sciences (corresponding member since 1994, full member since 2002). In 1989 he received the Prix Jean Ricard and in 2014 the COSPAR Space Science Award and in 2015 the Edison Volta Prize . In 2018 he received the Gruber Prize for Cosmology with the team of the Planck Space Telescope and Nazzareno Mandolesi , as well as the Shaw Prize in Astronomy in 2018 .
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| SURNAME | Puget, Jean-Loup |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French astrophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 7, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chalon-sur-Saône |