Biography:Jean-Pierre Petit

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Short description: Retired French engineer
Jean-Pierre Petit
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OccupationResearch engineer[1]

Jean-Pierre Petit is a French engineer.

Education

Jean-Pierre Petit obtained his engineer's degree in 1961 at the Institut supérieur de l'aéronautique et de l'espace (Supaéro).[citation needed] Petit defended his doctoral thesis, Applications de la théorie cinétique des gaz à la physique des plasmas et à la dynamique des galaxies, at the University of Provence in 1972.[1]

Petit worked in topology with Bernard Morin on the torus and sphere eversion in 1978.[2]

Ummo

Petit said in 2018 that he experienced personal contacts with unidentified entities that may or not be related to the Ummo case, but that he believes are aliens.[3][non-primary source needed] The Ummo affair has been admitted to have been a hoax.[4]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Petit, Jean-Pierre (10 March 1972). Applications de la théorie cinétique des gaz à la physique des plasmas et à la dynamique des galaxies [Applications of the kinetic theory of gases to plasma physics and galactic dynamics] (PDF) (Doctor of Science thesis) (in French). University of Provence. CNRS#6717.CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  2. Morin, B.; Petit, J.P. (1978). "Problématique du retournement de la sphère". C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 287: 767–770. http://www.jp-petit.org/papers/CRAS/geometry_1978a.pdf. 
  3. "Contacts Cosmiques avec Jean-Pierre Petit". NURÉA TV (in French). 25 October 2018. 134 minutes in. YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 29 April 2019.CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  4. Corrales, Scott (2001). "PARANOIA - People Are Strange: Unusual UFO Cults". http://www.paranoiamagazine.com/ufocults.html. 

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