Luis Campusano

Summary

Luis Campusano is a native of Antofagasta, the largest city in the Atacama desert region of Chile. It is from this region that he did his first naked eye observations of the Milky Way and of some other prominent objects in the southern sky, at a time well before any astronomy installations such as the Very Large Telescope or the ALMA radio-telescope were dreamed of for this region of Chile.

His current research interests include the formation of quasars, the large scale structure of the universe, X-ray galaxy clusters, and gravitational lensing. Luis has worked for 3 decades at the University of Chile where he currently is a faculty member of the Astronomy Department; he also collaborates with the Chilean National Commission for Science and Technology, and belongs to several national and international professional societies.

He pointed out that the evolution of matter takes place in the interior of stars, producing elements heavier than hydrogen and helium. These heavier elements are later transferred to other stars in interstellar space (see Vital Unconscious and Biocentric Principle).

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