Monique Tassoul

Canada

1942-2017


Obituary:

It is with much sadness that we must report the passing away of Monique Tassoul on July 18, 2017. She was born in Brussels, on September 23,1942. She graduated from fhe Université Libre de Bruxelles in 1963. She obtained her Ph.D. from the Université de Montréal in 1974. A few years later, she became a member of the IAU. Although she never had any official position. she was very active in astrophysical research from 1963 to 2002. Most of her papers (alone or in collaboration) were published in The Astrophysical Journal. Her last publication (in collaboration with her husband Jean-Louis Tassoul) was a book entitled « A Concise History of Solar and Stellar Physics » by Jean-Louis and Monique Tassoul (Princeton University Press, first edition 2004). From 1968 to 2008, she was a permanent resident of Canada. She went back to Belgium, together with her husband, in 2008. They were married since 1966, forming a happy couple for more than fifty years.

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

  • Past Member of Commission 35 Stellar Constitution (until 2015)

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