Hubert Reeves

Hubert Reeves
Reeves in 1994
Born	(1932-07-13) July 13, 1932 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Residence	Paris, France
Citizenship	Canada, France
Nationality	Canadian
Fields	Astrophysics
Institutions	CNRS
Alma mater	McGill University Cornell University
Doctoral students	Jean Audouze
Known for	Works on stellar nucleo-synthesis Vulgarisation
Notable awards	See Honours and Recognition

Hubert Reeves, CC OQ (born July 13, 1932) is a French Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science.

Personal life

Reeves attended Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf, a prestigious French-language college in Montreal. He has been a Director of Research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique since 1965 and currently lives in Paris, France where he often speaks on television promoting science.

Early Life Career

Born in Montreal, Reeves obtained a BSc degree in physics from the Université de Montréal in 1953, an MSc degree at McGill University in 1955 (with a thesis entitled "Formation of Positronium in Hydrogen and Helium" and then a PhD degree at Cornell University in 1960. His PhD thesis was "Thermonuclear Reaction Involving Medium Light Nuclei". From 1960 to 1964, he taught physics at the Université de Montréal and worked as an advisor to NASA.

Honours and recognition

• In 1976 he was made Knight of Ordre national du Mérite (France).
• In 1986 he was made Knight of the Légion d'Honneur (France). He was promoted to Officer in 1994 and to Commander in 2003.
• In 1991 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 2003.
• In 1994, he was made Officer of the National Order of Quebec.
• Asteroid 9631 Hubertreeves is named after Reeves: see Meanings of asteroid names (9501-10000).

Selected publications

• Reeves, Hubert (1998). Origins: Speculations on the Cosmos, Earth and Mankind (1st English-language ed ed.). London: Arcade Publishing. pp. 192pp. ISBN 1-55970-408-X. 
• Reeves, Hubert (July 1971). Nuclear Reactions in Stellar Surfaces and Their Relations with Stellar Evolution. London: Gordon and Breach. pp. 88pp. ISBN 0-677-02960-8. 
• Reeves, Hubert (1968). Stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis. New York: Gordon and Breach. ISBN 0-677-30150-2. 
• Reeves, Hubert (1981). Patience dans l'azur : l'évolution cosmique. Paris: Seuil. p. 282. ISBN 2-02-010170-X. 

Hubert Reeves in March 2010

Hubert Reeves in La Sorbonne (Paris, France) photographed in 2001 by Olivier Meyer

• Reeves, Hubert (1986). L'heure de s'enivrer : l'univers a-t-il un sens?. ISBN 2-02-014400-X. 
• Reeves, Hubert (1994). Dernières nouvelles du cosmos. ISBN 2-02-022831-9. 
• Reeves, Hubert; Lenoir, Frédéric (2003). Mal de Terre. Paris: Points. p. 272. ISBN 2-02-079064-5. 
• Reeves, Hubert (2005). Chroniques du ciel et de la vie. ISBN 2-02-080030-6. 
• Reeves, Hubert (2007). Chroniques des atomes et des galaxies. ISBN 978-2-7578-2297-5. 

External links

• Media related to Hubert Reeves at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website (French)
• Biography in English