Manuel Peimbert

Last updated

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]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">National Autonomous University of Mexico</span> Public university in Mexico

The National Autonomous University of Mexico is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the biggest in terms of enrollment. A portion of UNAM's main campus in Mexico City, known as Ciudad Universitaria, is a UNESCO World Heritage site that was designed by some of Mexico's best-known architects of the 20th century and hosted the 1968 Summer Olympic Games. Murals in the main campus were painted by some of the most recognized artists in Mexican history, such as Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros. With acceptance rates usually below 10%, UNAM is also known for its competitive admission process. All Mexican Nobel laureates are either alumni or faculty of UNAM.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Guillermo Haro</span> Mexican astronomer

Guillermo Haro Barraza was a Mexican astronomer. Through his own astronomical research and the formation of new institutions, Haro was influential in the development of modern observational astronomy in Mexico. Internationally, he is best known for his contribution to the discovery of Herbig–Haro objects.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">El Colegio de México</span>

El Colegio de México, A.C. is a Mexican institute of higher education, specializing in teaching and research in social sciences and humanities.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Imanol Ordorika Sacristán</span>

Imanol Ordorika Sacristán is a Mexican social activist, political leader, academic and intellectual. He was one of the initiators and principal leaders of the Consejo Estudiantil Universitario at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM), with Carlos Imaz Gispert and Antonio Santos Romero, from 1986 to 1990. A founder and prominent member of the Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD) until 2001. Professor of social sciences and education at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. Ordorika is an active participant in the Mexican political debate as well as an Op-ed writer for La Jornada and other Mexican media.

The National Prize for Arts and Sciences is awarded annually by the Government of Mexico in six categories. It is part of the Mexican Honours System and was established in 1945. The prize is a gold medal and 520,000 pesos.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">National Astronomical Observatory (Mexico)</span> Observatory in Baja California, Mexico

The National Astronomical Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Baja California, Mexico.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ramón Xirau</span> Mexican poet and philosopher (1924–2017)

Ramón Xirau Subías was a Spanish-born Mexican poet, philosopher and literary critic.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">El Colegio Nacional (Mexico)</span> Mexican honorary academy

The National College is a Mexican honorary academy with a strictly limited membership created by presidential decree in 1943 in order to bring together the country's foremost artists and scientists, who are periodically invited to deliver lectures and seminars in their respective area of speciality. Membership is generally a lifelong commitment, although it could be forfeited under certain conditions. It should not be confused with El Colegio de México, a public institution of higher education and research.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">School of Medicine, UNAM</span>

UNAM'sSchool of Medicine is the medical school of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), located at the university's main campus of Ciudad Universitaria. Established in 1553 as part of the Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico, it is one of the oldest medical schools in the Americas. The school has undergraduate and graduate studies departments. It does joint teaching with some other schools, e.g., the School of Science. It also has many grants involving UNAM's Engineering School, in areas such as smart and connected health. It is one of the most recognized schools in the university and in Mexico. The latest three rectors of the university, including the current one, are former deans from this school.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Paris Pişmiş</span> Turkish-Mexican astronomer

Marie Paris Pişmiş de Recillas was an Armenian-Mexican astronomer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">History of science and technology in Mexico</span> Overview of the history of science and technology in Mexico

The history of science and technology in Mexico spans many years. Ancient Mexican civilizations developed mathematics, astronomy, and calendrics, and solved technological problems of water management for agriculture and flood control in Central Mexico. Following the Spanish conquest in 1521, New Spain was brought into the European sphere of science and technology. The Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico, established in 1551, was a hub of intellectual and religious development in colonial Mexico for over a century. During the Spanish American Enlightenment in Mexico, the colony made considerable progress in science, but following the war of independence and political instability in the early nineteenth century, progress stalled. During the late 19th century under the regime of Porfirio Díaz, the process of industrialization began in Mexico. Following the Mexican Revolution, a ten-year civil war, Mexico made significant progress in science and technology. During the 20th century, new universities, such as the National Polytechnical Institute, Monterrey Institute of Technology and research institutes, such as those at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, were established in Mexico.

Enrique Carral Icaza was a Mexican architect. He was born in Mexico City.

The National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, abbreviated IPN, is one of the largest public universities in Mexico with 171,581 students at the high school, undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It is the second-best university in Mexico in the technical and engineering domain according to the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2018. It was founded on 1 January 1936 during the administration of President Lázaro Cárdenas del Río.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tonantzintla Observatory</span> Observatory

Tonantzintla Observatory is an astronomical observatory located in the municipality of San Andrés Cholula in the Mexican state of Puebla. It consists of two adjacent facilities: the National Astrophysical Observatory of Tonantzintla, operated by the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE), and the National Astronomical Observatory - Tonantzintla, operated by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). OANTON is located on the INAOE campus, which includes numerous other buildings. OAN - Tonantzintla is located immediately to the east on mostly unused property. The observatory is located 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) west of Puebla and 33 kilometres (21 mi) east of Popocatépetl, eruptions of which sometimes interfere with observing.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Silvia Torres-Peimbert</span> Mexican astronomer

Silvia Torres-Peimbert 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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">NGC 2242</span> Planetary nebula in the constellation Auriga

NGC 2242 is a planetary nebula in the constellation Auriga. It was discovered by Lewis A. Swift on November 24, 1886, and was thought to be a galaxy until a study published in 1987 showed it to be a planetary nebula. The nebula is located about 6,500 light-years away, and about 1,600 light-years above the galactic plane.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Julieta Norma Fierro Gossman</span> Mexican astrophysicist and science communicator

Julieta Norma Fierro Gossman is a Mexican astrophysicist and science communicator. She is a researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), in its Institute of Astronomy.

María Elena Medina-Mora Icaza is a Mexican researcher and psychologist. Medina-Mora Icaza was inducted into El Colegio Nacional on 6 March 2006.

Josefina Muriel de la Torre was a Mexican writer, historian, researcher, bibliophile, and academic. She specialized in the history of the feminine and religious world of the time of New Spain. She was awarded the Order of Isabella the Catholic by the government of Spain in 1966.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Teresa Rojas Rabiela</span> Mexican Ethnologist

Teresa Rojas Rabiela is an ethnologist, ethnohistorian, researcher and Mexican academic, specializing in Chinampas of Mexico's Basin, history of agriculture, hydraulics, technology, and labor organization in Mesoamerica during pre-Columbian and colonial eras, as well as historical photography of Mexico's peasants and indigenous people. She is recognized as a pioneer in historical studies on earthquakes in Mexico. From 2018 to 2021, Rojas Rabiela was involved in the restoration of the section of the pre-Hispanic aqueduct of Tetzcotzinco, Texcoco, known as El caño quebrado.

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. 1 2 "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.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.