Silvia Torres-Peimbert
Mexican astronomer
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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. Wikipedia
Born: 1940 (age 84 years), Mexico City, Mexico
Partner: Manuel Peimbert
Award: Hans A. Bethe Prize (2012)
Employer(s): Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM