Jean-François Denisse Age, Birthday, Zodiac Sign and Birth Chart

Jean-François Denisse was a French astronomer born on May 16, 1915, in Saint-Quentin and passed away on November 17, 2014, in Paris. He was a pioneer of radio astronomy in France. A member of an artistic family, he studied at the École normale supérieure and became a physics teacher in Dakar in 1942. Denisse later helped establish a radio astronomy group at the ENS and led significant radio astronomy efforts at the Paris-Meudon Observatory and the Nancay site. He was also involved in scientific organization and served as director of the Paris Observatory and later founded the national institute for astronomy and geophysics.

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Jean-François Denisse belongs to the GI Generation group.

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Place of Birth: Saint-Quentin

Place of Death: 9th arrondissement of Paris

Educated At: Science Faculty of Paris | École Normale Supérieure

Occupation: physicist | astronomer

Employers: INSU | CNES | Paris Observatory, PSL University

Awards Received: Commander of the Legion of Honour | Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit | Prix Jules Janssen | Janssen Medal | Three Physicists Prize | Holweck Prize

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