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Nationality
  
Chilean

Role
  
Astronomer

Name
  
Maria Ruiz

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Born
  
24 September 1946
Santiago de Chile

Education
  
Princeton University (1973), University of Chile (1971)

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, Latin America & Caribbean

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Maria Teresa Ruiz (born 24 September 1946) is a Chilean astronomer. She was the first woman to receive a National Science Award.

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Biography

Ruiz was born in Santiago de Chile in 1946. She was the first woman to successfully study astronomy at the University of Chile before she studied at Princeton University and gained her masters in astrophysics.

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Ruiz did research at Trieste, Mexico and New York before she gained a Guggenheim fellowship. She discovered Kelu 1, a Brown Dwarf.

Awards


  • Presidential Chair in Science, 1996
  • Chancellor's Medal, University of Chile, 1996
  • Sciences National Award, 1997
  • Chancellor's Medal, University of Chile, 1998
  • Fellow of the Academy of Sciences since, 1998
  • Labarca Merit Award, 2000

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