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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 31,677 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). María Teresa Ruiz is the 479th most popular astronomer (down from 459th in 2019), the 141st most popular biography from Chile (down from 119th in 2019) and the most popular Chilean Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, María Teresa Ruiz ranks 479 out of 531Before her are Ernest Leonard Johnson, Matvey Gusev, Aristarkh Belopolsky, Hans-Emil Schuster, Charles Augustus Young, and Kaoru Ikeya. After her are Grigory Shajn, Thomas Romney Robinson, Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist, Arno Arthur Wachmann, Yuji Hyakutake, and Grove Karl Gilbert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, María Teresa Ruiz ranks 528Before her are Blair Brown, Ricky Jay, Erich Beer, Héctor Veira, Alberto Colombo, and Klaus Wolfermann. After her are James C. Adamson, Eva Šuranová, Franco Malerba, Elisabeth Sladen, Robert Sara, and Oldřich Machač.

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In Chile

Among people born in Chile, María Teresa Ruiz ranks 141 out of 265Before her are Leonor Varela (1972), Sergio Navarro (1936), Remigio Morales Bermúdez (1836), Carlos Reinoso (1945), Carlos Campos (1937), and Francisco Ramón Vicuña (1775). After her are David Pizarro (1979), Carlos Dávila (1887), Juan Esteban Montero (1879), José Tomás Ovalle (1787), Juan Olivares (1941), and Alberto Fouilloux (1940).

Among ASTRONOMERS In Chile

Among astronomers born in Chile, María Teresa Ruiz ranks 1