SETI: The Pierre Guzman prize (commonly referred to as “the Guzman Prize”) of one hundred thousand francs is announced in Paris by Clara Gouguet in memory of her son by a former marriage. The prize was to be awarded “a celui qui aura trouve le moyen de communiquer avec an astre autre que la planet Mars (“to him who has found the means of communicating with a star other than Mars”).
The prize was administered by the French Academy of Sciences.
(The date of the announcement of the prize various from source to source, e.g. Moore says 1900.1217 whereas Crowe says 1891).
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For discussion of the Guzman prize see the following:
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Chambers, Paul in his “Life On Mars” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 49 (in Chapter 1) of the Blandford hardback edition. |
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Crowe, Michael J in his “The Extraterrestrial Life Debate, 1750-1900” (1986) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 394-395, 396, 397 (in Chapter 8) of the 1999 Dover softcover edition. |
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Darling, David in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 84 (in the entry entitled “communication, with the Moon and planets”), 177 (in the entry entitled “Guzman Prize”) of the Three Rivers softcover edition. |
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Darling, David in his online encyclopedia, “The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy and Spaceflight” (2003) in the entry entitled “communication, with the Moon and planets”) and in the entry entitled “Guzman Prize”). The relevant entries are available online at: |
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Hancock, Graham in his “The Mars Mystery” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 55 (in Chapter 5) of the Crown hardback edition. |
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Hennessey, Roger in his “Worlds Without End : The Historic Search for Extraterrestrial Life” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 95 (in Chapter 10) of the Tempus hardback edition. |
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Lemonick, Michael in his “Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 40 (in Chapter 1) of the Simon & Schuster hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Simon & Schuster softcover edition). |
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Ley, Willy in his “Watchers of the Skies” (1963) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 294-295 (in Chapter 12) of the Sidgwick and Jackson hardback edition. |
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Marvels and Mysteries (Editors Of) in “Marvels and Mysteries: Aliens” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 39 of the Parrallel softcover edition. |
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Moore, Patrick in his “On Mars” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 16 (in Chapter 1) of the Seven Dials softcover edition. |
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Pillinger, Colin in his “Beagle” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 49 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Is there Life on Mars?”) of the Faber and Faber hardback edition. |
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