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Pierre L\u00e9na, born in 1937, is a French astrophysicist<\/strong>, former student of the \u00c9cole normale sup\u00e9rieure, Emeritus Professor <\/strong>(Observatoire de Paris-PSL & Universit\u00e9 Paris-Cit\u00e9). His scientific work accompanied the emergence of infrared astronomy<\/strong>, developing observation from telescopes on Earth, in aircrafts and spaceborne. In search of high-resolution images<\/strong>, he was one of the architects of the European Very Large Telescope in Chile, with interferometry<\/strong> and adaptive optics<\/strong>. Elected to the Acad\u00e9mie des sciences in 1991, committed to science education<\/strong>, he joined physicists Georges Charpak & Yves Qu\u00e9r\u00e9 to create La main \u00e0 la p\u00e2te<\/strong> <\/em>in 1995. He chaired this Foundation (2011-2014) and then created the Office for Climate Education<\/strong> in 2018. Pierre L\u00e9na has four children and twelve grandchildren.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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