Paris, France : French astrophysicist Andre Brahic, one of the discoverers of Neptune's rings, died in Paris Sunday at the age of 73, his publisher Odile Jacob said.
"He was a brilliant character... extraordinarily warm, profound and authentic ,a great scholar and also a storyteller, a writer," said Jacob, who was close to Brahic.
An expert on the solar system, in 1984 he launched a programme which led to the discovery, with US astronomer William Hubbard, of the rings around the gaseous planet Neptune.
He described him as a great teacher "whose books and comments allowed us to voyage through space".
In the 1980s, Brahic became a specialist in exploring our solar system with the help of the NASA Voyager and later US-Europe Cassini unmanned missions, which continue to this day.
He was an astrophysicist at the Commission for Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies (CEA) and a professor at the University of Paris.
Neptune's outermost ring is divided into three arcs to which Brahic gave the names Liberte, Fraternite and Egalite.
Keen on bringing astrophysics to a wider public, Brahic wrote several books.
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"He was a brilliant character... extraordinarily warm, profound and authentic ,a great scholar and also a storyteller, a writer," said Jacob, who was close to Brahic.
An expert on the solar system, in 1984 he launched a programme which led to the discovery, with US astronomer William Hubbard, of the rings around the gaseous planet Neptune.
He described him as a great teacher "whose books and comments allowed us to voyage through space".
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In the 1980s, Brahic became a specialist in exploring our solar system with the help of the NASA Voyager and later US-Europe Cassini unmanned missions, which continue to this day.
He was an astrophysicist at the Commission for Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies (CEA) and a professor at the University of Paris.
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Neptune's outermost ring is divided into three arcs to which Brahic gave the names Liberte, Fraternite and Egalite.
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Keen on bringing astrophysics to a wider public, Brahic wrote several books.
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(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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