Elsa Recillas Pishmish (also published as Elsa Recillas-Cruz) is a Mexican astronomer whose research involves photometry of galaxies and their brightest stars, and of emission nebulae. She is a professor and researcher in the Mexican National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics.[1]
Education edit
Recillas studied physics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), graduating in 1968, and went on to earn a master's degree in astronomy from the University of Sussex in England in 1971. She returned to UNAM for a second master's degree in physics in 1983 and a doctorate in 1988.[1]
Book edit
With her daughter Irene Cruz-González, Recillas is a coauthor of a book on Galileo, El hombre de la torre inclinada: Galileo Galilei (1st ed., Gatopardo, 1985).
Personal life edit
Recillas comes from an astronomical and mathematical family. Her mother Paris Pişmiş was a noted Armenian-Mexican astronomer, and her father Félix Recillas Juárez was a mathematician. Her brother Sevín Recillas Pishmish also became a mathematician. Recillas married astronomer Carlos Cruz-González, and their daughter Irene Cruz-González also became an astronomer.[2]
Recognition edit
Recillas is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.[3]
References edit
- ^ a b "Dra. Elsa Recillas Pishmish", Directory of researchers, National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics, retrieved 2022-12-12
- ^ Poniatowska, Elena (1999), "La doctora en astronomía Paris Pishmish", La Jornada
- ^ Astronomy section members (PDF), Mexican Academy of Sciences, 2022, retrieved 2022-12-12