Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
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The Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (translated: Paris Institute of
History
The IAP was created in 1936 by the French ministry of education under
Current research
The IAP includes 160 researchers, engineers, technicians, and administrators and regularly welcomes many visitors and students.
The main areas of research at the IAP are:
- General relativity and cosmology
- Cosmological structure formation
- High-energy astrophysics
- Origin and evolution of galaxies
- Stellar structure
- Exoplanets
The IAP is one of five laboratories of AERA, the European association for research in astronomy. The laboratory is situated at the interface between two disciplines, astrophysics and theoretical physics. The International Astronomical Union has its seat at the IAP.
Directors
- 1936-1954 : Henri Mineur
- 1954-1960 : André Danjon
- 1960-1971 : André Lallemand
- 1972-1977 : Jean-Claude Pecker
- 1978-1989 : Jean Audouze
- 1990-1998 : Alain Omont
- 1998-2004 : Bernard Fort
- 2005-2013 : Laurent Vigroux
- Since 2014 : Francis Bernardeau
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