Manuel Peimbert Sierra (born June 9, 1941) is a Mexican astronomer and a faculty member at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He was named a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences in 1987.

Biography

Peimbert was born in 1941 in Mexico City.[1] In his first year of college at UNAM, Peimbert went to the Tonantzintla Observatory in Puebla with a friend, Gerardo Bátiz, and they told the observatory director, Guillermo Haro, that they wanted to help at the observatory. Haro put them to work with a Schmidt camera, and Peimbert and Bátiz found a number of planetary nebulae, ten of which had never been described. They were later named the Peimbert-Bátiz nebulae, and subsequent study with astronomer Rafael Costero identified fourteen more.[2]

After earning an undergraduate physics degree from UNAM, Peimbert completed a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley before returning to UNAM as a faculty member. He works at the UNAM Institute of Astronomy.[3] From 1982 to 1988, Peimbert was vice president of the International Astronomical Union.[4]

In 1987, Peimbert was elected a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences.[5] He was inducted into the Colegio Nacional in Mexico in 1993.[6] Peimbert was named a fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences,[7] and he was awarded one of the three TWAS Medal Lectures the first year they were held (1996).[8] He received the Hans Bethe Prize from the American Physical Society in 2012.[3] Peimbert and his wife, fellow UNAM faculty member Silvia Torres-Peimbert, were the first non-U.S. scientists to win the Hans Bethe Prize.[9][10] Peimbert was elected an international member of the American Philosophical Society in 2002.[11]

Peimbert is the great-grandson of writer Justo Sierra.[12]

References

  1. ^ "Dr. Manuel Peimbert Sierra". www.astroscu.unam.mx. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
  2. ^ Hernandez, Mirtha (September 21, 2011). "Subraya Peimbert papel de educación". Reforma.
  3. ^ a b "2012 Hans A. Bethe Prize Recipient". American Physical Society. Retrieved November 17, 2015.
  4. ^ "Manuel Peimbert". www.iau.org. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
  5. ^ "Manuel Peimbert". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved November 17, 2015.
  6. ^ "Peimbert Sierra, Manuel" (in Spanish). Colegio Nacional. Archived from the original on November 19, 2015. Retrieved November 17, 2015.
  7. ^ "Peimbert, Manuel". TWAS. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
  8. ^ "TWAS Medal Lectures". TWAS. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
  9. ^ "Reciben cientificos mexicanos Silvia Torres y Manuel Peimbert Premio Hans A. Bethe de la Sociedad de Fisica de EU" (in Spanish). Mexican Academy of Sciences. March 30, 2012. Retrieved November 17, 2015.
  10. ^ Ceron, Ricardo (February 11, 2008). "Entrevista con Silvia Torres, Premio Nacional de Ciencias 2007". El Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved November 17, 2015.
  11. ^ "Manuel Peimbert". American Philosophical Society. Retrieved November 17, 2015.
  12. ^ Franco, Jorge (2015). Un instante en la eternidad: Un Punto en el Punto Azul (in Spanish). Palibrio. p. 52. ISBN 978-1-5065-0670-8. Retrieved November 17, 2015.
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