crédits : Julie Sansoulet, CNRS
Double distinction for Guy Perrin in 2022. After the Fizeau Lifetime Achievement 2020 prize awarded on July 20, 2022 in Montreal, the astronomer from the Observatoire de Paris - PSL has just been elected member of the Académie des sciences.
Alongside Frank Eisenhauer, also elected to the Academy of Sciences in 2022 as a foreign associate member, Guy Perrin is responsible for the French contribution to GRAVITY, an instrument equipping ESO’s VLTI in Chile. Recognized as the most powerful optical interferometer, this instrument allows the study of Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
The reception ceremony for the newly elected members will take place under the Dome of the Palais de l’Institut de France, on Tuesday June 6, 2023, starting at 3pm
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You can watch the live broadcast of this ceremony
All awards received by Guy Perrin
| Guy Perrin, elected member of the Académie des sciences Guy Perrin, astronomer at Paris Observatory - PSL, was elected to the French Academy of Sciences on December 19, 2022. His lecture, given on Tuesday June 6, 2023, under the Dome of the Palais de l’Institut de France, during the ceremony to welcome new members, will be broadcast live on YouTube, starting at 3 pm. |
| Guy Perrin receives the 2020 Fizeau Prize The Fizeau and Michelson Prize Committee has awarded the Fizeau Lifetime Achievement 2020 Prize to Guy Perrin for his theoretical and technological work in optical interferometry, his impressive achievements at the conceptual level and in innovative instrumental methods, and his ongoing support for the interferometric community for over two decades. The award ceremony takes place on Wednesday, July 20, 2022 in Montreal. |
| Guy Perrin and the GRAVITY team, winners of the 2019 Prix du Magazine "La Recherche" Guy Perrin, astronomer at Paris Observatory - PSL, and the GRAVITY team are the winners of the 2019 Prize of La Recherche Magazine. The prize was awarded for their work in highlighting the relativistic shift around our Galaxy’s central black hole, using the instrument they designed and built for ESO. |
| Guy Perrin, winner of the 2015 Simone and Cino del Duca Foundation Grand Prix The Simone and Cino del Duca Foundation’s 2015 Grand Prix Scientifique on the theme of general relativity is awarded jointly to Guy Perrin (Observatoire de Paris/LESIA) for his project to study a black hole using the GRAVITY instrument, and to Patrice Hello (CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris Sud) for his research into gravitational astronomy using the LIGO-Virgo network. |
| Guy Perrin, 2005 winner of the HP-SF2A The angular resolution of observation systems, i.e. their ability to distinguish between two nearby point sources, increases linearly with the diameter of the collector. Our eye, sensitive in the visible range, has an angular resolution of about one minute of angle (1/60th of a degree), or 1/30th of the angular diameter of the Sun or Moon as seen from the Earth.... |