- Jean-Pierre Luminet
Jean-Pierre Luminet (1951 - ) is a French
astrophysicist , specialized inblack hole s and cosmology. He works as research director for theCNRS ("Centre national de la recherche scientifique"), and is a member of the "Laboratoire Univers et Théories" (LUTH) of theobservatory of Paris-Meudon.The asteroid
5523 Luminet , was named after him [http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/NumberedMPs005001.html] .Timeline
* 2003- An apparent
periodicity in thecosmic microwave background led to the suggestion, by [http://luth2.obspm.fr/~luminet/eluminet.html Jean-Pierre Luminet] of theObservatoire de Paris and colleagues, that theshape of the Universe is a finite dodecahedron, attached to itself by each pair of opposite faces to form aPoincaré homology sphere . ( [http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/7/10/5 "Is the universe a dodecahedron?"] , article at PhysicsWeb.) During the following year, astronomers searched for more evidence to support this hypothesis but found none.ee also
*
Physical Cosmology
*List of cosmologists
*Non-standard cosmology
*Timeline of cosmology
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