2023-10-19 10:40:08
By Aurélie Jean
Published 1 minute ago, Updated now
Hubert Reeves. MATTHIEU ALEXANDRE / AFP
FIGAROVOX/CHRONICLE – Our columnist pays tribute to the astrophysicist who died on October 13. Hubert Reeves showed the way to all scientists keen to inspire the vocation of science in future generations.
Aurélie Jean is a doctor of science and entrepreneur. She notably published Do algorithms make the law? (2022), published by L’Observatoire and co-written Résistance 2050 (2023) published by L’Observatoire.
On October 13, a star disappeared even though today we need light like never before to guide us. Hubert Reeves, a great French astrophysicist, worked throughout his life to democratize his discipline and make science applied to space known to as many people as possible. Less obvious perhaps is the role of space research – including astrophysics – in developing children’s appetite for science. A vector that is still too underestimated, and yet the opportunities to tell scientific stories that are as exciting as they are enriching are gigantic in this field, and our society deeply needs them.
«Children are born data scientists!» this sentence from the computer scientist…
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