Place and date of birth: Jalhay (Belgium), 20 Sept. 1946
Nationalities: Belgian (birth), French (2004)
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IAU Representative to ICSU/CODATA (1991-1994)
Member of various working groups, advisory bodies and editorial committees
Discoverer of Comet 1972 VIII = 1973a (now called C/1973 A1)
Honors and biographical listings
Fields of current interest or tackled in the past (alphabetical sequence): advertising - artificial intelligence - astronomy & astrophysics - catalogues - communication - cosmic distance scale - creative processes - cyberspace - databases - desktop & electronic publishing - dictionaries - directories - documentation - electronic information handling - fractals - history - hypertext & hypermedia - image processing - information processes - international relations - management - marketing - peculiar stars - photography - photometry - public relations - publishing techniques - scientific popularization - sociology of astronomy - space activities - spacecraft operations - statistical & related methodologies - strategy analysis - ultraviolet spectroscopy - variable stars - World-Wide Web resources - yellow-page services