About María Teresa Ruiz
María Teresa Ruiz is a Chilean astronomer who was the first woman to receive Chile's National Prize for Exact Sciences, the first female recipient of a doctorate in astrophysics at Princeton University, and the first woman president of the Chilean Academy of Sciences. She is also known for the discovery of the brown dwarf Kelu-1. In 1975, upon completing her thesis work with Martin Schwarzschild, Ruiz became the first woman to obtain a PhD in astrophysics at Princeton University. In 1997, Ruiz discovered Kelu-1 which is a structure of two brown dwarfs. In 1997 she became the first woman in Chile's history to receive the country's National Prize for Exact Sciences.
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