Attila Grandpierre

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

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.

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]

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 the fringe journal NeuroQuantology in 2007.