Christophe Galfard (born 1976 in Paris, France) is a French

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ...

and writer.

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After graduating from the

École Centrale Paris École or Ecole may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by Secondary education in France, secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing i ...

in 1999 and specializing in

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, he then obtained a PhD at the

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under the supervision of

Stephen Hawking Stephen William Hawking (8January 194214March 2018) was an English theoretical physics, theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. Between ...

. He co-published with the latter and

Lucy Hawking Catherine Lucy Hawking (born 2 November 1970) is an English journalist, novelist, educator, and philanthropist. She is the daughter of the Theoretical physics, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and writer Jane Hawking, Jane Wilde Hawking. S ...

''George and the Secrets of the Universe'' in 2007. He then published the ''Prince of Clouds'' novel trilogy with ''Le Blueberry'' (2009), ''Le Matin des trois soleils'' (2012) and ''La Colère du ciel et du vent'' (2013). In 2015, he published ''The Universe in Your Hand''.

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