Portrait of James Lequeux
****detail of a story| James LEQUEUX | : It is not uncommon for researchers to enjoy highly respected careers without making any notable discovery. In Lequeux's case, this trajectory is particularly striking. Investigating his career, one would vainly search through such a rich professional path for anything significant that this École Normale Supérieure graduate might have discovered worth remembering. Pragmatic and aware from an early age of his own limitations, he participated in the creation of the European journal "Astronomy and Astrophysics." And in this capacity, instead of laboriously advancing his own work to establish his reputation, he now devoted his time to filtering others' work. Ethical standards and scruples are not his strong points, and he is known to say, not without a certain cynicism, "I have skin as thick as a rhinoceros's." He is responsible for a letter in which he at least had the honesty to state, "Reviewers' opinions are merely advisory, and only the editor of a journal has the authority to accept or reject an article submitted to them." See the | who left all my colleagues at the Marseille Observatory utterly stunned. |
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