Attila Grandpierre

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.

Attila Grandpierre
At Chapman University in 2011
Born
Grandpierre Attila

(1951-07-04) July 4, 1951
Budapest
NationalityHungarian
EducationEötvös Loránd University,
Fac. of Physics and Astronomy
Occupation
  • astrophysicist
  • musician (vocalist)
  • writer
  • poet
  • self-taught historian
Musical career
Genres
Instrumentsvocals
Years active1975-present
Associated actsGalloping Coroners, Galloping Wonder Stag
Websitehttp://www.grandpierre.hu/site/english/
This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

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.

Attila Grandpierre at age 30 in 1981

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 NeuroQuantology in 2007.

Musician career
Main articles: Galloping Coroners and Galloping Wonder Stag

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
  1. "Fémforgács - Cikk - Vágtázó Életerő". Femforgacs.hu. Retrieved 2015-06-04.
  2. Eric-André. "Grandpierre, Louis". Hls-dhs-dss.ch. Retrieved 2015-06-08.
  3. A photo of Lajos Kossuth dedicated to Károly Grandpierre. wikimedia >>
  4. "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.
  5. 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
  6. Astronomy and Civilization in the New Enlightenment - Passions of the Skies. Springer.com.
  7. A. Grandpierre was the member of the Scientific Board of the International Consortium for Interdisciplinary Science in 2008.
  8. "Fundamental complexity measures of life". Konkoly.hu. Retrieved 2015-06-02.
  9. "Cosmic Life Forms" (PDF). Konkuly.hu.
  10. Clark, Stuart (2007-01-24). "Sun's fickle heart may leave us cold". New Scientist. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
  11. Martinas, K. and Grandpierre, A. 2009, Natural Thermodynamics. Kopenhagen, June 22–24, 2009, Conceptual Thermodynamics, The Joint European Thermodynamics Conference, Copenhagen "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-06-02. Retrieved 2015-06-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  12. 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.
  13. "Interjú Grandpierre Atillával". Grandpierre.hu. Retrieved 2015-06-08.
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