René Racine
Canadian astronomer
René Racine (16 October 1939 – 18 December 2025) was a French-Canadian academic and astronomer who specialised in the study of globular clusters.
Life and career
Racine was born in Quebec City. He obtained a bachelor's degree in physics from Laval University in 1963, and master's and doctoral degrees (Ph.D in astronomy) in 1965 and in 1967, respectively, from the University of Toronto. He received a research scholarship at the Carnegie Institute.
Between 1967 and 1969, he was a Carnegie Fellow at the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories near Pasadena, California in the United States. He operated the Mt. Mégantic Observatory from 1976–1980, the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope from 1980–1984, and then returning to Mt. Mégantic Observatory from 1984–1997.
In 1994, Racine and colleagues recalibrated the value of the Hubble constant, which helps to measure extragalactic distances, and the size and the age of the Universe.
On 10 February 2000, Denis Bergeron, in Val-des-Bois, was the first to discover an asteroid from Quebec.
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