Godfrey Louis
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Use Indian English Godfrey Louis is a solid-state physicist from India. His hypotheses about the "red rain" phenomenon in Kerala have attracted controversy. In April 2008, he published a paper in which he hypothesised that samples of particles from the "blood-coloured" rain that fell in his state of Kerala, India in the summer of 2001 were the result of a comet disintegrating in the upper atmosphere which comprised mainly microbes from outer space.[1] The paper drew much media interest. Other scientists disagreed early on with Louis' hypothesis regarding the red rain's origin.[2] An earlier (2001) study by the Centre for Earth Science Studies, Kerala, India, reported that the red rain was the result of spores from local algae.[3]
Since October 2006 Louis has been at Department of Physics, Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT) in Kochi, Kerala.
In August 2010 Louis and his collaborators presented a paper at the SPIE astrobiology conference held in San Diego, USA, claiming that the red rain cells develop internal daughter cells and multiply when exposed to extreme temperature of 121 °C in an autoclave for two hours, and that the fluorescent behavior of the red cells is similar to the extended red emission observed in the Red Rectangle nebula.[4]
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External links
- Home Page of Dr. Godfrey Louis
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- Popular Science – Is It Raining Aliens?
- arXiv astrophysics – Use the search facility https://arxiv.org/find/all/1/all:+EXACT+godfrey_louis/0/1/0/all/0/1 to locate his four papers in ArXiv.org related to red rain.
- Tribune 2 June 2006 – Tribune article
- Horizon, 14 November 2006
- The Extraordinary Tale of Red Rain, Comets and Extraterrestrials,1 September 2010
- Panspermia theorists say India's red rain contains life not seen on Earth, 3 September 2010 Script error: No such module "webarchive".
- India’s Red Rain: Still Cloudy With a Chance of Alien?, September 2010