Jean-Pol Vigneron (5 March 1950 – 24 June 2013) was a Belgian physics professor.
Jean-Pol started his career working on semi-conductor physics, however he is best known for his later work on the physics of animal colours, photonic crystals, and naturally occurring optical structures.
[1] In 2007, he was elected a member of the prestigious Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium,[2] he was also a professor at the Université de Namur and lectured at the University of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso and in Morocco.
A conference in his honour was held in Namur in April 2014.
[3] He is also known for having initiated the Living Light Conference series with the 2009 meeting in San Sebastian (Basque countries, Spain).