Raphaël Granier de Cassagnac
Raphaël Granier de Cassagnac (born 1 January 1973 in Paris) is a French physicist and writer.
Career
[edit]Research
[edit]He is specialized in nuclear and particle physics. He is a member of the PHENIX experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory and of the CMS experiment at CERN where he is involved in studying the Quark-Gluon Plasma in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions.
Writing
[edit]He writes science fiction novels. His debut novel was Eternity Incorporated, published in 2011. It was followed by Thinking Eternity in 2014 which won the Prix du Lundi in 2014.[1]
Personal life
[edit]Ahead of the 2024 French legislative election, he co-signed a statement with other figures from French speculative fiction in support of a New Popular Front against the far-right.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Prix du Lundi : lauréats - Quarante-Deux/un Honneur insoutenable". www.quarante-deux.org.
- ^ "Actrices et acteurs des littératures de l'imaginaire pour le Front populaire". L'Humanité. 13 June 2024. Retrieved 23 June 2024.
External links
[edit]Media related to Raphaël Granier de Cassagnac at Wikimedia Commons