Pierre Cox
French astronomer
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Pierre Cox is a French astronomer. Born in Paris to a Dutch composer father and a Belgian pianist mother, he led a musically-oriented childhood from which he rebelled at age 17 to study physics at the Université de Paris-Sud.[1] He is known for his research in the area of millimeter and infrared observations of star-forming regions, evolved stars, and high-redshift galaxies. He has published over 250 refereed papers with more than 22,000 citations in total.[2]
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Pierre Cox | |
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Pierre Cox signing the contract for the ALMA Band 7 receivers. | |
| Known for | Astronomy |
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| Fields | Astronomy |
| Institutions | Former Director of ALMA; Institut de radioastronomie millimétrique; Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale |
Cox is currently a Director of Research (Directeur de Recherche) (DR1) at CNRS, working at the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris. From 2013 - 2018,[3] Cox was the Director of ALMA,[4] a position requiring coordinating the efforts of many countries that Cox likened to "being the Secretary General of United Nations".[5] He was previously the Director of the Institut de radioastronomie millimétrique from 2006 through 2013. Prior to IRAM, he had been an astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy,[6] the Marseille Observatory, and then the Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale, an observatory of the CNRS at the Université de Paris-Sud in Orsay.[7]
Pierre's hobbies including drawing and playing piano. He speaks five languages fluently.[8]
Publications
- The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Multiband Constraints on Line-luminosity Functions and the Cosmic Density of Molecular Gas.[9]
- The Evolution of the Baryons Associated with Galaxies Averaged over Cosmic Time and Space.[10]
- Ionized and Atomic Interstellar Medium in the z = 6.003 Quasar SDSS J2310+1855.[11]
- NOEMA redshift measurements of bright Herschel galaxies.[12]
