Attila Grandpierre, Hungarian Astrophysicist. Member Scientific and Medical Network, Society for Scientific Exploration.
Background
Grandpierre"s family name comes from French Huguenot ancestors, according to family tradition, with some French bishops, of whom one, Louis Grandpierre, was a Swiss politician and president of the Swiss Appeal Court, and another, Károly Grandpierre, a writer and consultant of Lajos Kossuth, settled in Hungary.
Education
Diploma, Roland Eötvös University, Budapest, 1974. Doctor of Science, Polytech. University, Budapest, 1977.
Candidate of Physical Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 1984.
Career
He is best known as leader/vocalist of Galloping Coroners (Hungarian: Vágtázó Halottkémek) rock band. From his childhood 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? Ancestry 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 5 years old when he stated that he wanted to become an astronomer, dealing with the Sun, and 7 years old when he stated that he wanted to become a singer.
He graduated at Eötvös Loránd University as a physicist-astronomer in 1974, and got his Doctor of Philosophy in 1977. He studied theoretical biology focused on Ervin Bauer"s works.
In 2009 his subject field of interest concerned the relation between astronomy and civilization.
During 1995-1998 he worked with Professor Ervin László studying the physics of collective consciousness and the quantum-vacuum interactions. 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.
He paid special attention to interdisciplinal science and complexity of living systems in 2008.
Books 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 scool years, before he had started to sing, he had a certain degree of countrywide fame among youngster as an mysterious, unconventional boy who did crazy things with his friends, e.g. creating homemade rockets.
Membership
Member Scientific and Medical Network, Society for Scientific Exploration.