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Paola D'Alessio
Paola D'Alessio Vessuri (1964–2013) was a British-born planetary scientist who worked in Mexico at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) Center for Radioastronomy and Astrophysics. Her research concerned protoplanetary disks. Education and career D'Alessio was born on 30 July 1964 in Oxford, the daughter of Argentine–Venezuelan social anthropologist Hebe Vessuri. She studied physics as an undergraduate in Venezuela, at the Central University of Venezuela, with undergraduate research in the Centro de Investigaciones de Astronomia. She then went to UNAM for graduate study in astronomy, earning master's and doctoral degrees there and becoming a researcher at UNAM in 1996. After postdoctoral research at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and American Museum of Natural History The American Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as AMNH) is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. In Theodore Roosevelt Park, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Planetary Science
Planetary science (or more rarely, planetology) is the scientific study of planets (including Earth), celestial bodies (such as moons, asteroids, comets) and planetary systems (in particular those of the Solar System) and the processes of their formation. It studies objects ranging in size from micrometeoroids to gas giants, aiming to determine their composition, dynamics, formation, interrelations and history. It is a strongly interdisciplinary field, which originally grew from astronomy and Earth science, and now incorporates many disciplines, including planetary geology, cosmochemistry, atmospheric science, physics, oceanography, hydrology, theoretical planetary science, glaciology, and exoplanetology. Allied disciplines include space physics, when concerned with the effects of the Sun on the bodies of the Solar System, and astrobiology. There are interrelated observational and theoretical branches of planetary science. Observational research can involve combinations of spac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
