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Vincent Icke is Professor of Astrophysics at Universiteit
Leiden, and Professor of Cosmology at the University
of Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. He studied
theoretical physics and astronomy at Utrecht, and
in 1972 obtained a doctorate (for a study of galaxy
formation and large scale cosmic structure) at Leiden.
He has held postdoctoral positions at the University
of Sussex, Cambridge University, and the California
Institute of Technology. After serving as a junior
faculty member at the University of Minnesota, he
came to Leiden in 1983. At present, his main interests
are cosmology, the 'cosmological constant ', the
formation of structure in the Universe, and high
energy hydrodynamics. Besides his academic pursuits,
he takes an active interest in the popularization
of science and in the arts. The third printing of
his book The Force of Symmetry, describing for a
wide audience the current developments in theoretical
particle physics, was published by Cambridge University
Press in 1999. A book provisionally entitled Stars
in Art will be published by Waanders in 2001.Vincent
Icke is also a visual artist, and is guest lecturer
at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy for the Arts in Amsterdam
and at the Rijksacademie voor Beeldende Kunsten
in The Hague. He writes a monthly column for the
national newspaper NRC Handelsblad and is free-lance
employee of VPRO Broadcasting; he has participated
in many productions on radio and television.
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