Manuel Peimbert

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Manuel Peimbert Sierra (born June 9, 1941) is a Mexican astronomer and a faculty member at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

Biography

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.[1]

Peimbert was elected a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences in 1987.[2] He was inducted into the Colegio Nacional in Mexico in 1993.[3] He received the Hans Bethe Prize from the American Physical Society in 2012.[1] Peimbert and his wife, fellow UNAM faculty member Silvia Torres, were the first non-US scientists to win the Hans Bethe Prize.[4][5] Peimbert was elected an international member of the American Philosophical Society in 2002.[6]

Peimbert is the great-grandson of writer Justo Sierra.[7]

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