!!!Jean-Claude Pecker
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Jean-Claude Pecker passed away February 20, 2020.
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__Positions Held__
*1999 - 2001 President of the Association française pour l'information scientifique
*1990 - 1996 Vice-President of the French UNESCO committee and thereafter permanent representative to UNESCO of the *International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU)
*1989 - 1992 Vice-President of the Academia Europaea
*1988 Vice-chair of the Scientific committee of the Musées de France
*1986 - 1988 President of the Comité National de culture scientifique et technique
*1983 - 1985 President of the Comité d'Orientation du Musée de la Villette
*1978 President of the French association for the advancement of science
*1972 - 1979 Director of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) Institute of Astrophysics
*1964 - 1967 General Secretary of the IAU (International Astronomical Union)
*1964 - 1967 General secretary of the Société astronomique de France and President thereafter until 1976
*1963 - 1988 Professor of theoretical astrophysics at the Collège de France and honorary professor thereafter
*1962 - 1969 Director of the Nice Observatory
*1955 - 1962 Astronomer of the Paris Observatory
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__Fields of Scholarship__
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__Honours and Awards__
*Commander of the Légion d'Honneur
*Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit (France)
*Commander of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
*1966 Manley-Bendall Prize from the Academy of Bordeaux
*1967 Jules-Janssen Prize, the highest award for Astronomy from the French Astronomical Society (SAF)
*1967 Janssen Medal for significant advances in the field of astrophysics[6]
*1969 Three Physicists Prize
*1972 Medal from the University of Nice
*1973 Prix Jean Perrin, for popularising science to the general public[21]
*1977 Member of the French Academy of Sciences
*1981 Medaille de l’Adion of the Nice Observatory
*1983 Rationalist Union prize
*1984 Personalité de l'Année
*1996 Stroobant Prize from the Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium
*1996 Lodén Prize from the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala
*2005 International Humanist Award, for services to Humanism from the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU)
*A minor planet (1629) is named in his honour, discovered by L. Boyer
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