
María Teresa Ruiz
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Gender | Female |
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Age | 78 |
Date of birth | September 24,1946 |
Zodiac sign | Libra |
Born | Santiago |
Chile | |
Discovered | Kelu-1 |
Known for | Kelu-1 |
Discovering Kelu-1 | |
Job | Astronomer |
Education | Princeton University |
University of Chile | |
Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, Latin America & Caribbean |
National Prize for Exact Sciences | |
Nationality | Chilean |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 1097074 |
María Teresa Ruiz Life story
María Teresa Ruiz is a Chilean astronomer who was the first woman to receive Chile's National Prize for Exact Sciences, the first female recipient of a doctorate in astrophysics at Princeton University, and the first woman president of the Chilean Academy of Sciences.