Claude Nicollier famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

As far as the radio waves part of the spectrum, we can do these adequately from the ground because the atmosphere is basically transparent to our radio waves.
-- Claude Nicollier

#Atmosphere #Radio #Wave
The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also explore the infrared part of the spectrum.
-- Claude Nicollier

#Space #Telescopes #Next
My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I pursued in parallel efforts and studies in these two areas.
-- Claude Nicollier

#Dream #Children #Two
In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are high-energy processes, will radiate more in the short wavelength range towards the gamma rays or the x-rays.
-- Claude Nicollier

#Wavelength #Rays #Energy
I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland; he's 90 years old now, so he's no longer active as a civil engineer, but still a very active person.
-- Claude Nicollier

#Dad #Years #Switzerland
Then, much later, my next dream was to become an astronaut, and I was fortunate to realize that dream, also.
-- Claude Nicollier

#Dream #Next #Realizing
The future infrared space telescope will cover that area in a much more efficient manner.
-- Claude Nicollier

#Space #Telescopes #Infrared
Hubble is very close to my heart, and going back to Hubble, because I was there once already in 1993, is really a great privilege for me.
-- Claude Nicollier

#Heart #Privilege #Hubble
My name was on the list very early after these announcements were made through the newspapers in Europe.
-- Claude Nicollier

#Europe #Names #Lists
The objects that are of moderate energy, like our sun or most of the stars that we see in the night sky with the naked eye, are objects in which relatively moderate energy processes are taking place.
-- Claude Nicollier

#Stars #Eye #Night

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