Silvia Bravo

Silvia Susana Bravo Núñez (1945–2000) was a Mexican astronomer specializing in solar physics including the study of the Sun's corona, solar wind, and the Sun's magnetic field. She was one of the pioneering researchers in the department of space sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) Institute of Geophysics.[1]

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Bravo and the second or maternal family name is Núñez.

Education and career

Bravo studied physics as an undergraduate at UNAM.[2] She completed her PhD at UNAM in 1989, with a dissertation whose translated title is The sun's coronal holes as sources of large-scale disturbances in the solar wind, advised by Blanca Emma Mendoza Ortega[3] and based on research performed at the Cavendish Laboratory in England.[2]

She became a professor and researcher in the UNAM Institute of Geophysics in 1997. As well as her research publications, she was an author of several books of science popularization.[2]

She died of cancer in 2000.[4]

Recognition

Bravo was a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.[5] In 2014, she became one of 31 women in the formal and natural sciences honored by a monument in the Paseo de la Mujer Mexicana in Fundidora Park, Monterrey.[6]

References
  1. Ciencias Espaciales, UNAM Institute of Geophysics, retrieved 2022-12-09
  2. Author detail, Fondo de Cultura Económica (US Economic Culture Fund), retrieved 2022-12-09
  3. Bravo Nuñez, Silvia Susana (1989), Los hoyos coronales del sol como fuentes de perturbaciones de gran escala en el viento solar [The sun's coronal holes as sources of large-scale disturbances in the solar wind] (Doctoral thesis), Mexico: National Autonomous University of Mexico, retrieved 2022-12-09
  4. González-Esparza, J. Américo (June 2022), "Space physics career in a developing country: opportunities and challenges", Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 9: 952000, Bibcode:2022FrASS...9.2000G, doi:10.3389/fspas.2022.952000
  5. Astronomy section members (PDF), Mexican Academy of Sciences, 2022, retrieved 2022-12-09
  6. They pay tribute to 31 women for their contributions to science, Mexican Secretary of Culture, retrieved 2022-12-09
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