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Yaël Nazé (born 1976) is a Belgian astrophysicist who works at the University of Liège. She specializes in massive stars and their interactions with their surroundings.

Yaël Nazé
Born	21 November 1976  (age 45) Baudour
Alma mater	University of Liège
Employer	National Fund for Scientific Research (2009–)
Awards	Jean-Perrin Prize (2017) (2009)

Biography

She came from what she described as a poor part of Belgium where people enjoyed stargazing. At ten she considered meteorology, but by twelve became interested in astronomy.[1] She received her PhD in March, 2004 and qualified as a permanent National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) researcher since 2009. She devotes part of her leisure to the popularization of sciences through conferences, animations, exhibitions, and articles. She has written several books that have earned her several awards.[2][3] Her scientific work has been just as rewarded and repeatedly so.[3][4]

Bibliography

• Les couleurs de l'Univers, Belin [fr], 2005 (prix d'astronomie de Haute Maurienne 2006, prix biennal Hainuyer de vulgarisation scientifique [fr] 2006)
• L'astronomie au féminin, Vuibert [fr], 2006 et CNRS éditions [fr], 2014 (plume d'or [fr] 2006, prix Verdickt-Rijdams 2007)
• Histoire du télescope, la contemplation de l'Univers des premiers instruments aux actuelles machines célestes, Vuibert, 2009
• L'astronomie des anciens, Belin, 2009 (prix Jean-Rostand 2009) - re-edited in 2018 under the name L'astronomie du passé
• Cahier d'exploration du ciel I. Découvrir l'Univers, Réjouisciences, 2009
• Cahier d'exploration du ciel II. Mesurer l'Univers, Réjouisciences, 2012
• La cuisine du cosmos - cahier de (g)astronomie, Réjouisciences, 2012
• Voyager dans l'espace, CNRS éditions, 2013 (prix Roberval [fr], 2014)
• À la recherches d'autres mondes - les exoplanètes, Académie Royale de Belgique - éditions, collection académie en poche, 2013
• Art & Astronomie - Impressions célestes, Omnisciences, 2015
• Astronomie de l'étrange, Belin, 2020
• Enquêtes d'Astronomie, Éditions Hermann, 2021 (with Dominique Proust)

Popular works

• In 2018, Nazé analyzed the controversy over a Ph.D. thesis proposed by a student at the University of Sfax, which defended a flat earth as well as a geocentric model of the solar system and young Earth creationism. The dissertation theme had been approved by the committee overseeing environmental studies theses (but not the final, full dissertation) and its summary had been made public and denounced in 2017 by professor Hafedh Ateb, a founder of the Tunisian Astronomical Society on his Facebook page.[5]

Awards

• Prix Jean Teghem [fr] (2009)
• Prix Jean-Rostand [fr] (2009)
• Prix Roberval [fr] (2014)
• Prix Jean-Perrin [fr] (2017)

References

External links

• Professional page of Yaël Nazé, in the place of the university of Liège
• Expert publications of Yaël Nazé, in the database ADS
• The feminine side of astronomy conference of Yaël Nazé (5 January 2010) video CERIMES / IAP.
• Conference of Yaël Nazé on the solar System (Brest, 17 October 2012)

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