Hubert Reeves

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Hubert Reeves (born July 13 1932 in Montreal, Quebec) is an Canadian astrophysicist and a well-known science popularizer. He has been a Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique since 1965 and currently lives in France where he often speaks on television promoting science.

In 1991 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 2003.

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Selected publications

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| year = 1998
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| title = Origins: Speculations on the Cosmos, Earth and Mankind
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| edition = 1st English-language ed
| pages = 192pp
| publisher = Arcade Publishing
| location = London
| id = ISBN 1-559-70408-X
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| year = 1971
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| title = Nuclear Reactions in Stellar Surfaces and Their Relations with Stellar Evolution
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| pages = 88pp
| publisher = Gordon and Breach
| location = London
| id = ISBN 0-677-02960-8
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| year = 1968
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| title = Stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis
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| publisher = Gordon and Breach
| location = New York
| id = ISBN 0-677-30150-2
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