Jean-Pierre Luminet
![Jean-Pierre Luminet at Salon du Livre 2009 (Paris, France)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Jean-Pierre_Luminet_20090313_Salon_du_livre_1.jpg)
Luminet has been awarded several prizes on account of his work in pure science and science communication, including the Georges Lemaître Prize (1999) in recognition of his work in cosmology. In November 2021, he received the UNESCO Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science. He serves on the editorial board of ''Inference: The International Review of Science''.
The asteroid 5523 Luminet, discovered in 1991 at Palomar Observatory, was named after him.
Luminet has published fifteen science books, seven historical novels, TV documentaries, and six poetry collections. He is an artist, an engraver, a sculptor, and a musician. During his music career, he has collaborated with composers such as Gérard Grisey and Hèctor Parra. Some of Luminet's literary works have been translated into other languages, such as Chinese, Korean, Bengali, German, Lithuanian, Greek, Italian or Spanish. Provided by Wikipedia