1. Silvia Torres-Peimbert won the L'Oreal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science in 2011 for Latin America for her work determining the chemical composition of nebulae.
10 Facts About Silvia Torres-Peimbert
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Silvia Torres-Peimbert studied Physics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico before going to the University of California in Berkeley.
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Silvia Torres-Peimbert returned to Mexico to conduct post-doctoral research at her alma mater.
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Silvia Torres-Peimbert studied star formation and the mass thrown out by mid-size stars.
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Silvia Torres-Peimbert has studied the distribution of the primordial helium abundance.
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Silvia Torres-Peimbert was the editor of Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica from 1974 to 1998.
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Silvia Torres-Peimbert is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, and a member of the American Astronomical Society and the Academy of Sciences of the Developing World.
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Silvia Torres-Peimbert won the L'Oreal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science in 2011 for Latin America.
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Silvia Torres-Peimbert won the award for investigating the "chemical composition of nebulae" which the organisers considered essential to our understanding of the beginning of the cosmos.
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Silvia Torres-Peimbert won the Hans A Bethe Prize in 2012 for her work in determining the quantities of helium and other elements during the development of the universe.