Participants
16 November 2023
14:50 – 15:35
Amphithéâtre Faure
Daniel Kunth
Daniel Kunth is Director of Research Emeritus at the CNRS. He has spent most of his career at the Institut d’astrophysique de Paris, but also spent many years at ESO (European Southern Observatory) in Chile, Switzerland and Caltech (California). He has carried out numerous missions with the world’s largest telescopes, and since 1991 has made extensive use of the Hubble Space Telescope. His main interest is the study of galaxy evolution and formation. He has proposed an original approach for observing hydrogen radiation emitted in the ultraviolet. This emission makes it possible to probe the near and distant universe. In 1991, convinced that the accumulation of knowledge without sharing remains a futile activity, he became involved in the dissemination of knowledge and was the initiator of Starry Night. His cross-disciplinary approach draws on a variety of techniques and disciplines: lectures, debates, participation in art-science or science-society meetings, writing columns, books, designing exhibitions, collaborating on films…