Geburtsdatum | Sonntag, 05. März 1950 |
Geburtsort | Aiseau |
Todesdatum | Montag, 24. Juni 2013 |
Todesort | Namur |
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Beschreibung | Jean-Pol Vigneron (5 March 1950 – 24 June 2013) was a Belgian physics professor. Jean-Pol started his career working on semi-conductor physics, however he is best known for his later work on the physics of animal colours, photonic crystals, and naturally occurring optical structures. In 2007, he was elected a member of the prestigious Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium, he was also a professor at the Université de Namur and lectured at the University of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso and in Morocco. A conference in his honour was held in Namur in April 2014. |