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Raphaël Granier de Cassagnac

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Raphaël Granier de Cassagnac at Utopiales 2011

Raphaël Granier de Cassagnac (born 1 January 1973 in Paris) is a French physicist and writer.

Career

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Research

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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

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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

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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

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  1. ^ "Prix du Lundi : lauréats - Quarante-Deux/un Honneur insoutenable". www.quarante-deux.org.
  2. ^ "Actrices et acteurs des littératures de l'imaginaire pour le Front populaire". L'Humanité. 13 June 2024. Retrieved 23 June 2024.
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