Roland Bacon
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| Born | 10 January 1956 London | ||
| Residence | France | ||
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| Fields | Astronomical instrumentation, galaxies and cosmology | ||
| Institutions | CNRS, CRAL | ||
Roland Bacon, born January 10, 1956 in London, is a French astrophysicist and director of research at CNRS.
Biography
He is currently a faculty at the Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon (CRAL) of the Lyon Observatory, which he directed from 1995 to 2005.
Roland Bacon was for 10 years the director of the Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon[1]. His research focusing on instrumentation for large optical telescopes and extragalactic astronomy, allowed him to lead and participate in more than 350 publications[2]. He is the author of a monograph on 3D instrumentation[3]. Between 2014 and 2019, he was a European Research Council Advanced Grant holder.
He was a member of the scientific council of the permanent exhibition dedicated to the question of origins of the Musée des Confluences between 2006 and 2013. He directed with the dance company Hallet Eghayan a show on the origin of the Universe (13 heures et des poussières). This show was produced 20 times between 2009 and 2016 mainly in France but also in Switzerland, Morocco and Algeria.
Achievements
In 1987, he realized with G. Courtès and G. Monnet the first integral field spectrograph in the world named TIGER[4]. He has since led many instrumental projects for optical telescopes including the SAURON integral field spectrograph[5] which has produced a series of publications on nearby galaxies. This project, which he led with Tim de Zeeuw and Roger Davies (astrophysicist), was honored by the Royal Astronomical Society of England in 2013. In 2001, he designed and led the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer, a unique instrument for the Very Large Telescope that has been in operation in Chile, since 2014.
Honors and Awards
- 2013: Award from the English Royal Astronomical Society with the whole team of the SAURON project .
- 2017: Deslandres Prize from the French Academy of Sciences.
- 2018: Manne Siegbahn Medal from the Nobel Foundation.
- 2020: Jackson-Gwilt Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society[6]
- Optical 3D-Spectroscopy for Astronomy[7], Roland Bacon and Guy Monnet, Wiley (2017)
Media
- OASIS l'oeil aux milles regards, documentaire, réalisateur François Tisseyre, CNRS Audiovisuel (1999)[8]
- Derrière l'horizon, vidéo 3D, documentaire, réalisation 3D émotion, Musée des Confluences (2014)[9]
- Lointaines galaxies - Une MUSE pour le Very Large Telescope, documentaire (2013)[10]
- Roland Bacon, astrophysicien, portrait, réalisateur Claude Delhaye et Christophe Gombert, CNRS Image (2017)[11]
- MUSE, the cosmic time machine, Claude Delhaye and Christophe Gombert, CNRS Image (2017)
References
- ↑ "Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon". cral.univ-lyon1.fr. Retrieved 2021-11-15.
- ↑ "NASA/ADS". ui.adsabs.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-15.
- ↑ Bacon, Roland (2017). Optical 3D-spectroscopy for astronomy. Guy Monnet. Weinheim, Germany. ISBN 978-3-527-67482-4. OCLC 974642767.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ↑ Bacon, Roland. "3D spectrography at high spatial resolution. I. Concept and realization of the integral field spectrograph TIGER". Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Serie, vol. 113, 1995, p. 347-357.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ Bacon, R.; Copin, Y.; Monnet, G.; Miller, Bryan W.; Allington-Smith, J.R.; Bureau, M.; Marcella Carollo, C.; Davies, Roger L.; Emsellem, Eric; Kuntschner, Harald; Peletier, Reynier F. (September 2001). "The SAURON project - I. The panoramic integral-field spectrograph". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 326 (1): 23–35. doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04612.x.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ↑ {{Web link|title=Leading astronomers and geophysicists honored in RAS bicentenary year | The Royal Astronomical Society|url=https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/leading-astronomers-and-geophysicists-honoured-ras-bicentenary-year-0%7Csite=ras.ac.uk%7Cconsulted o
Bibliography
- 13 heures et des poussières, Roland Bacon et Michel Hallet Eghayan, Edition Musée des Confluences (2009)<ref>Michel, Hallet Eghayan (2016-08-04). "13 heures et des poussières..." www.museedesconfluences.fr (in français). Retrieved 2020-01-21.
- ↑ Bacon, Roland (2017). Optical 3D-spectroscopy for astronomy. Guy Monnet. Weinheim, Germany. ISBN 978-3-527-67482-4. OCLC 974642767.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ↑ "OASIS, l'oeil aux mille regards". www.canal-u.tv (in français). Retrieved 2020-01-21.
- ↑ "Film grand public relief au Musée des confluences". 3D emotion (in français). Retrieved 2020-01-21.
- ↑ "Lointaines galaxies - Une MUSE pour le Very Large Telescope" (in français). Retrieved 2020-01-21.
- ↑ "Roland Bacon, astrophysicien". videotheque.cnrs.fr. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
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