Biography:Attila Grandpierre

Attila Grandpierre
At Chapman University in 2011
Born	Grandpierre Attila (1951-07-04) 4 July 1951 Budapest
Nationality	Hungarian
Education	Eötvös Loránd University, Fac. of Physics and Astronomy
Occupation	astrophysicist musician (vocalist) writer poet self-taught historian
Musical career
Genres	Shaman punk psychedelic rock punk rock world music
Instruments	vocals
Years active	1975-present
Associated acts	Galloping Coroners, Galloping Wonder Stag
Website	http://www.grandpierre.hu/site/english/

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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.

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, according to family tradition, with some French bishops, of whom one, Louis Grandpierre, was a Switzerland politician and president of the Swiss Appeal Court, and another, Károly Grandpierre, a writer and consultant 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. During 1995-1998 he worked with Professor Ervin László studying the physics of collective consciousness and the quantum-vacuum interactions. 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. He paid special attention to interdisciplinal science 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 and Cosmic Life Forms 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).

Important publications

In astrophysics he wrote an article on the variable nature of the Sun's core, which was mentioned in New Scientist in 2007.

Working with Katalin Martinás, he wrote on "natural" thermodynamics.

He formulated a mathematical principle of biology as published in the fringe journal NeuroQuantology in 2007.

Musician career

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.