Olivier Le Fèvre

Olivier Le Fèvre
Born	Olivier Claude Jacques Le Fèvre  21 November 1960  Saint-Cloud
Died	25 June 2020  (aged 59) Le Castellet
Alma mater	Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier University
Academic career
Institutions	Aix-Marseille University (1997–2020) Paris Observatory (1994–1997) Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope (1987–1994)

Olivier Le Fèvre (1960 – 2020) was a French astrophysicist who studied galaxies using multi-object spectroscopy.

Personal life

He was born in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine, on 21 November 1960.^[1] He started as an amateur astronomer before becoming a professional one. He had two daughters. He moved to Marseilles in 1997, and enjoyed cycling and surfing. He was diagnosed with a brain tumor, and after 2.5 years he died of it on 25 June 2020.^[2]

Career

He studied for a PhD at

He used multi-object spectroscopy to study galaxy evolution and formation, and the large-scale structure of the Universe. He started the Canada-France Redshift Survey with the MOS-SIS multi-object spectrograph on the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope. He was the principal investigator of the Visible Multi Object Spectrograph on the Very Large Telescope, and spent over 15 years using it to observe galaxies. He was involved in the selection of the Euclid telescope, as well as working on instruments for the James Webb Space Telescope and the Subaru Telescope.^[2]

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