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Silvia Torres-Peimbert (born in 1940) is a Mexican astronomer. She won the L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science in 2011 for Latin America for her work determining the chemical composition of nebulae.

Silvia Torres-Peimbert
Torres-Peimbert in July 2015
Born	1940 (age 81–82) Mexico City, Mexico
Nationality	Mexican
Awards	Hans Bethe Prize (2012)

Life

Torres-Peimbert was born in Mexico City in 1940. She studied Physics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (NAUM) before going to the University of California in Berkeley. She returned to Mexico to conduct post-doctoral research at her alma mater. She studied star formation and the mass thrown out by mid-size stars. She has studied the distribution of the primordial helium abundance.[1] In 1973 she became a professor in the Faculty of Sciences and the Institute of Astronomy at UNAM and was the director of Institute of Astronomy from 1998 to 2002. During this time she worked closely with Manuel Peimbert,[2] her husband. Torres-Peimbert and Peimbert had both been students of Guillermo Haro (Haro was in 1959 the first person elected to the Royal Astronomical Society from a developing country).[3]

Torres-Peimbert was the editor of Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica from 1974 to 1998 [1][4]

She won the L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science in 2011 for Latin America.[5] The award is given annually to leading women scientists with an award being given to five continents. She won the award for investigating the "chemical composition of nebulae" which the organisers considered essential to our understanding of the beginning of the cosmos.[5] She also won the Hans A. Bethe Prize in 2012 for her work in determining the quantities of helium and other elements during the development of the universe. Knowing about these elements allows cosmologists to understand the evolution of stars and galaxies.[2]

Torres-Peimbert was named President of the International Astronomical Union for the 2015-2018 period (the second woman ever to preside over the IAU), and was a member of the American Astronomical Society and the Academy of Sciences of the Developing World.[5]

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[de] Silvia Torres-Peimbert

Silvia Torres-Peimbert (geborene Linda Silvia Torres Castilleja) (* 1940 in Mexiko-Stadt[1]) ist eine mexikanische Physikerin und Astronomin.

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- [en] Silvia Torres-Peimbert

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[es] Silvia Torres Castilleja

Silvia Linda Torres Castilleja (n. Distrito Federal, México; 1934),[1] conocida como Silvia Torres, es una astrónoma mexicana notable por haber sido la primera mujer que a nivel nacional obtuvo un doctorado en astronomía. En 2015, fue designada presidenta de la Unión Astronómica Internacional. En 2009, fungió como la coordinadora del Año de la Astronomía en México,[2] y dos años después, en 2011, obtuvo el galardón L’Oréal Unesco por parte de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas en el rubro de «Mujeres de la ciencia».[1] Se la cataloga como una de las más reconocidas científicas mexicanas por sus investigaciones sobre la materia interestelar.[3][2]

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[fr] Silvia Torres-Peimbert

Silvia Torres-Peimbert, née Linda Silvia Torres Castilleja à Mexico en 1940, est une astrophysicienne mexicaine, présidente de l'Union astronomique internationale pour le triennat 2015-2018. Elle a étudié puis enseigné à l'université nationale autonome du Mexique. Elle est mariée à l'astronome Manuel Peimbert Sierra (en). Elle a reçu le prix L'Oréal-Unesco pour les femmes et la science en 2011 pour ses recherches sur les compositions chimiques des nébuleuses[1],[2].

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[it] Silvia Torres-Peimbert

Silvia Torres-Peimbert (Città del Messico, 26 giugno 1940[1]) è un'astronoma e docente messicana.

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[ru] Торрес-Пеймберт, Сильвия

Сильвия Торрес-Пеймберт (исп. Silvia Torres-Peimbert, род. 1940[1], Мехико) — мексиканский астроном. В 2011 году получила награду L’Oréal — ЮНЕСКО «Для женщин в науке» от Латинской Америки за свою работу по определению химического состава туманностей.

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