The Most Famous
ASTRONOMERS from Chile
This page contains a list of the greatest Chilean Astronomers. The pantheon dataset contains 531 Astronomers, 1 of which were born in Chile. This makes Chile the birth place of the 52nd most number of Astronomers behind Mexico and South Africa.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Chilean Astronomers of all time. This list of famous Chilean Astronomers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. María Teresa Ruiz (1946 - )
With an HPI of 44.07, María Teresa Ruiz is the most famous Chilean Astronomer. Her biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.
María Teresa Ruiz (born 24 September 1946) 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. She is known, too, for the discovery of the brown dwarf Kelu-1. In 2018, she was listed as one of the top 10 most powerful and influential women in Chile owing to her scientific contributions. During her career she has written two books about astronomy: Desde Chile un cielo estrellado: lecturas para fascinarse con la astronomía (2013) and Hijos de las Estrellas (2017).
Pantheon has 1 people classified as astronomers born between 1946 and 1946. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living astronomers include María Teresa Ruiz.
