45 Years of Heck in Professional Astronomy

From the back cover: "This volume is devoted to the itinerary and professional activities of Astronomer Andre Heck whose international career spanned the period 1969-2014. This is the story of a Belgian scientist of humble origins whose name was assigned to a comet he discovered at the age of 26 at Haute Provence Observatory, who was in charge at 31 of the science operations on the then most advanced astronomy satellite from a European Space Agency station in Spain, and who later ended up at the top level for astronomers in France after pushing forward new fields and acting as a catalyst for novel approaches."