ASTRONOMER

María Teresa Ruiz

1946 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of María Teresa Ruiz has received more than 35,967 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). María Teresa Ruiz is the 520th most popular astronomer (down from 479th in 2019), the 160th most popular biography from Chile (down from 140th in 2019) and the most popular Chilean Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, María Teresa Ruiz ranks 520 out of 644. Before her are John Dobson, John Broughton, Hans-Emil Schuster, Agnes Mary Clerke, Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov, and Minoru Honda. After her are John N. Bahcall, Erika Böhm-Vitense, Korado Korlević, Okuro Oikawa, Roy A. Tucker, and Ľudmila Pajdušáková.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, María Teresa Ruiz ranks 648. Before her are Vahidin Musemić, Helen Gourlay, Terry Branstad, Patrick Rambaud, Georgi Markov, and Eric Van Lustbader. After her are Chris Burden, Dave Mason, George Lusztig, Roberto Chale, Zygmunt Anczok, and Mo Ibrahim.

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In Chile

Among people born in Chile, María Teresa Ruiz ranks 160 out of 321. Before her are Osvaldo Sáez (1920), Honorino Landa (1942), Rolando García (1942), Humberto Cruz (1939), Enrique Hormazábal (1931), and Carlos Contreras (1938). After her are Sergio Valdés (1933), Manuel Plaza (1900), José Luis Sierra (1968), Roberto Cortés (1905), Luis Eyzaguirre (1939), and Ignacio Prieto (1943).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Chile

Among astronomers born in Chile, María Teresa Ruiz ranks 1. 

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