Arcadio Poveda
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 2 years ago |
Date of birth | July 15,1930 |
Zodiac sign | Cancer |
Born | Merida |
Mexico | |
Discovered | Upsilon Andromedae e |
Residence | Mexico City |
Mexico | |
Field | Astronomy |
Education | University of California, Berkeley |
Died | Mexico City |
Mexico | |
Date of died | March 24,2022 |
Awards | National Prize for Arts and Literature |
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ID | 1648797 |
Arcadio Poveda Life story
Renán Arcadio Poveda Ricalde was a Mexican prominent astronomer who developed a method to calculate the mass of elliptical galaxies. He received Mexico's National Prize for Arts and Sciences in 1975, chaired its National Astronomical Observatory from 1968 to 1980 and was elected to The National College in 1989.