Thérèse Encrenaz
Thérèse Encrenaz (née Gounon,[1] born 1946) is a French planetary scientist who "played a leading role in the development of planetology in Europe".[2] Her research concerns extraterrestrial atmospheres, particularly of the planets and comets in the Solar System. She is a research director for the CNRS, emeritus, affiliated with the Paris Observatory.[3]
Education and career
Encrenaz was born on March 10, 1946.
As a director of research for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the Paris Observatory, she headed the DESPA and LESIA laboratories, and became vice-president of the observatory,[2] before retiring as research director emeritus.[3]
She was editor-in-chief of the journal Planetary and Space Science from 2002 to 2007.[2]
Recognition
Encrenaz is the namesake of asteroid
She is the recipient of the 1998 CNRS Silver Medal, the 2007 Prix Jules Janssen of the Société astronomique de France,[6] the 2010 David Bates Medal of the European Geosciences Union,[2] the 2014 Prix Deslandres of the French Academy of Sciences,[7] and the 2021 Gerard P. Kuiper Prize of the American Astronomical Society.[3]
She was elected to the Academia Europaea in 2002.[6] She was named a chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 2009, and an officier in 2019.[1]
Books
Encrenaz is the author or editor of many books on planetology[2] including:
- The Solar System (with Jean-Pierre Bibring, Intereditions/CNRS, 1987; translated into English by S. Dunlop, Springer, 1990)[8]
- Infrared Astronomy with ISO (with M. F. Kessler, Nova, 1992)[9]
- Comet Science: The Study of Remnants from the Birth of the Solar System (with Jacques Crovisier, Belin/CNRS, 1995; translated into English by Stephen Lyle, Cambridge University Press, 2000)[10]
- The Outer Planets and their Moons: Comparative Studies of the Outer Planets prior to the Exploration of the Saturn System by Cassini-Huygens (with R. Kallenbach, Tobias Owen, and Christophe Sotin, Springer, 2005)
- Searching for Water in the Universe (Springer, 2006)[11]
- The New Worlds: Extrasolar Planets (with Fabienne Casoli, Springer, 2007)
- Planetary Systems: Detection, Formation and Habitability of Extrasolar Planets (with Marc Ollivier, Françoise Roques, Franck Selsis, and Fabienne Casoli, Springer, 2009)[12]
- Life beyond Earth: The Search for Habitable Worlds in the Universe (with Athena Coustenis, Cambridge University Press, 2013)[13]
- Planets: Ours and Others; from Earth to Exoplanets (World Scientific, 2013)[14]
- The Exoplanets Revolution (with James Lequeux and Fabienne Casoli, EDP Sciences, 2020)
- Planets and Life (with James Lequeux and Fabienne Casoli, EDP Sciences, 2021)
Personal life
Encrenaz is married to Pierre Encrenaz, who is also an astronomer.[15]
References
- ^ a b "Décret du 31 décembre 2019 portant promotion et nomination dans l'ordre national de la Légion d'honneur", Journal Officiel, 31 December 2019
- ^ a b c d e f g David Bates Medal 2010: Thérèse Encrenaz, European Geosciences Union, retrieved 2023-08-06
- ^ a b c "2021 Prize Recipients", Division for Planetary Sciences, American Astronomical Society, 9 August 2021, retrieved 2023-08-06
- ^ a b Annuaire, Conseil scientifique, Mandat 2005 – 2010, CNRS, retrieved 2023-08-06
- ^ "(5443) Encrenaz", Minor Planet Center, International Astronomical Union, retrieved 2023-08-06
- ^ a b "Thérèse Encrenaz", Member profiles, Academia Europaea, retrieved 2023-08-06
- ^ Prix Deslandres: Lauréat de l'année 2014 (PDF) (in French), French Academy of Sciences, retrieved 2023-08-06
- ^ Reviews of The Solar System:
- Cochran, William D. (March 1991), Icarus, 90 (1): 184, doi:10.1016/0019-1035(91)90080-d)
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- Cochran, William D. (March 1991), Icarus, 90 (1): 184,
- Manfroid, Jean (1991), Ciel et Terre, 107: 29, hdl:2268/22182)
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- Beichman, Charles A. (April 1993), "Progress in the infrared", S2CID 239841410
- Beichman, Charles A. (April 1993), "Progress in the infrared",
- ^ Reviews of Comet Science:
- Petersen, Carolyn Collins (October 2001), Sky and Telescope, 102 (10): 69, Bibcode:2001S&T...102Q..69P)
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- Petersen, Carolyn Collins (October 2001), Sky and Telescope, 102 (10): 69,
- Hurst, Guy M. (October 2000), Journal of the British Astronomical Association, 110: 288–289, Bibcode:2000JBAA..110..288H)
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- Wallis, M. (November 2007), Contemporary Physics, 48 (6): 370–371, )
- ^ Review of Planetary Systems:
- McClintock, Peter V.E. (November 2010), Contemporary Physics, 51 (6): 561–562, S2CID 122863425 https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/35041/1/ollivierPrePrint.pdf)
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- McClintock, Peter V.E. (November 2010), Contemporary Physics, 51 (6): 561–562,
- ^ Reviews of Life beyond Earth:
- Chown, Marcus (31 December 2013), "Anybody out there? The how and what of alien life", New Scientist
- Foust, Jeff (2 December 2013), "Two books on astrobiology", The Space Review
- Harris, Liam (31 March 2014), Review, Astrobiology Society of Britain
- McCoustra, Martin R. S. (2014), "The chemical cradle of life", Chemistry World, 11 (4)
- ^ Reviews of Planets: Ours and Others:
- Fletcher, Leigh N. (December 2015), Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation, 4 (3n04), doi:10.1142/s2251171715800021)
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- Fletcher, Leigh N. (December 2015), Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation, 4 (3n04),
- Mason, Nigel John (September 2015), Contemporary Physics, 56 (4): 511, )