Attila Grandpierre | |
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 At Chapman University in 2011 | |
| Born | Grandpierre Attila 4 July 1951 Budapest |
| Nationality | Hungarian |
| Education | Eötvös Loránd University, Fac. of Physics and Astronomy |
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| Musical career | |
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| Instrument(s) | vocals |
| Years active | 1975-present |
| Website | http://www.grandpierre.hu/site/english/ |
Attila Grandpierre (Hungarian: Grandpierre Attila; born 4 July 1951) is a Hungarian musician, astrophysicist, physicist, self-taught historian, writer and poet. He is best known as leader/vocalist of the Galloping Coroners (Hungarian: Vágtázó Halottkémek) rock band.
Personal ideology
From his childhood on he was very interested in dealing with the Sun and the cosmos. As an adult he is looking for the answer whether the Universe does have a physical, biological or psychological nature.
Life
Ancestry
Grandpierre's family name comes from French Huguenot ancestors,[1] according to family tradition, with some French bishops, of whom one, Louis Grandpierre, was a Swiss politician and president of the Swiss Appeal Court,[2] and another, Károly Grandpierre, a writer and consultant[3] of Lajos Kossuth, settled in Hungary.
Young years, family
Grandpierre was born in Hungary under the Soviet regime on 4 July 1951 in Budapest. His father, Endre Grandpierre K. was a writer and historian. His father's studies on history greatly influenced the small Attila. He was five years old when he stated that he wanted to become an astronomer, dealing with the Sun, and seven years old when he stated that he wanted to become a singer. He graduated at ELTE as a physicist-astronomer in 1974, and got his Ph.D. in 1977.
Physicist career
He studied theoretical biology focused on Ervin Bauer's works. In 2009 his subject field of interest concerned the relation between astronomy and civilization.[4] During 1995-1998 he worked with Professor Ervin László studying the physics of collective consciousness and the quantum-vacuum interactions.[5] In 2011 he was an invited professor on Computational Biology at the Chapman University, California for six months.
As physicist he had a strong interest in the problem of bringing the sciences and metaphysics together.[6] He paid special attention to interdisciplinal science[7] and complexity of living systems in 2008.
Books
As a physicist, Grandpierre published 10 books, 3 book chapters, more than 70 science and over 300 popular science papers.
He wrote the Fundamental Complexity Measures of Life[8] and Cosmic Life Forms[9] chapters in the book titled From Fossils to Astrobiology (2008, Springer).
He was co-editor of the book Astronomy and Civilization in the New Enlightenment (2011, Springer).[6]
Important publications
In astrophysics he wrote an article on the variable nature of the Sun's core, which was mentioned in New Scientist[10] in 2007.
Working with Katalin Martinás, he wrote on "natural" thermodynamics.[11]
He formulated a mathematical principle of biology[12] as published in the fringe journal NeuroQuantology in 2007.
Musician career
As a musician Atilla Grandpierre is best known as leader/vocalist of Galloping Coroners (Vágtázó Halottkémek in Hungarian) rock band and later the same of acoustic Galloping Wonder Stag from 2005.
By his high school years, before he had started to sing, he had a certain degree of countrywide fame among youngsters as a mysterious, unconventional boy who did crazy things with his friends, e.g. creating homemade rockets.[13]
References
- ↑ "Fémforgács - Cikk - Vágtázó Életerő". Femforgacs.hu. 12 April 2009. Retrieved 2015-06-04.
- ↑ Eric-André. "Grandpierre, Louis". Hls-dhs-dss.ch. Retrieved 2015-06-08.
- ↑ A photo of Lajos Kossuth dedicated to Károly Grandpierre. wikimedia >>
- ↑ "A. Grandpierre was the main organizer and the Co-chair of the International Scientific Organizing Committee of the conference "Astronomy and Civilization"". Konkoly.hu. 2009.
- ↑ Grandpierre, A. 1995, Quantum-Vacuum Interactions in the Brain. in the Appendix of The Interconnected Universe. Toward a Unified Science of Quantum, Cosmos and Consciousness, by Ervin Laszlo, World Scientific, pp. 113-117
- 1 2 Astronomy and Civilization in the New Enlightenment - Passions of the Skies. Springer.com.
- ↑ A. Grandpierre was the member of the Scientific Board of the International Consortium for Interdisciplinary Science in 2008.
- ↑ "Fundamental complexity measures of life". Konkoly.hu. Retrieved 2015-06-02.
- ↑ "Cosmic Life Forms" (PDF). Konkuly.hu.
- ↑ Clark, Stuart (2007-01-24). "Sun's fickle heart may leave us cold". New Scientist. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
- ↑ Martinas, K. and Grandpierre, A. 2009, Natural Thermodynamics. Kopenhagen, June 22–24, 2009, Conceptual Thermodynamics, The Joint European Thermodynamics Conference, Copenhagen "Conceptual thermodynamics | jetc10.fys.ku.dk". Archived from the original on 2015-06-02. Retrieved 2015-06-01.
- ↑ Grandpierre, Atilla (December 2007). "Biological Extension of the Action Principle: Endpoint Determination beyond the Quantum Level and the Ultimate Physical Roots of Consciousness". NeuroQuantology. 5 (4): 346–362. arXiv:0802.0601. doi:10.14704/nq.2007.5.4.143. S2CID 55468155.
- ↑ "Interjú Grandpierre Atillával". Grandpierre.hu. 23 October 2008. Retrieved 2015-06-08.
