Nuria Calvet
Venezuelan astronomer studying star and planet formation.
Núria Pilar Calvet Cuni, a Venezuelan astronomer born in 1950, researches how stars and their surrounding protoplanetary disks form and evolve. She is the Helen Dodson Prince Collegiate Professor of Astronomy at the University of Michigan and was Venezuela’s first female professional astronomer.
Quick Facts
- Born
- 1950
- Birthplace
- Caracas
- Field
- Astronomy
- Institution
- University of Michigan
- Title
- Helen Dodson Prince Collegiate Professor of Astronomy
- Doctoral dissertation
- Model atmospheres for T Tauri stars
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Did You Know?
- Calvet received the Dorothea Klumpke Roberts Prize in 1979 for outstanding achievement as a graduate student.
- She was awarded the Lorenzo Mendoza Fleury Science Prize in 1987, the highest private-sector science award in Venezuela.
- Calvet was the first woman to receive the Lorenzo Mendoza Fleury Science Prize.
Education and career
Calvet studied at the Central University of Venezuela before earning a bachelor's degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1973. She obtained a master's degree in 1975 and a Ph.D. in 1981 from the University of California, Berkeley, where her dissertation was on model atmospheres for T Tauri stars. From 1981 to 1997 she worked at the Centro de Investigaciones de Astronomia in Venezuela, becoming its vice president. She then joined the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics before moving to the University of Michigan in 2005.
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