Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente

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Full Name	Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente
Occupation	Astronomer
Date Of Birth	May 18, 1964(1964-05-18)
Age	60
Birthplace	Barcelona
Country	Spain
Birth City	Catalonia
Horoscope	Taurus

Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente Biography

Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente is one of the most popular and richest Astronomer who was born on May 18, 1964 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Pilar Ruiz Lapuente, a Professor at the University of Barcelona, was born 1964 in Barcelona. Her research has focused on supernovae type Ia. She was the leader of the 2004 team that searched for the companion star for the white dwarf that gave rise to supernova SN1572. This was observed by Tycho Brahe and others. Ruiz-Lapuente was a supernovae researcher that contributed to the discovery and acceleration of the universe.

Ruiz-Lapuente received her Physics degree at the University of Barcelona. She then completed her doctoral studies at University of Barcelona and the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics. After graduating from the University of Barcelona, Ruiz-Lapuente became a research fellow at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. She was an associate professor at the University of Barcelona’s Department of Astronomy and Meteorology as of 2012.

Pilar-Ruiz has authored over 130 journal articles as of 2012. These works include those published in Science and Nature.

Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente Net Worth

Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente is one of the richest Astronomer from Spain. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Ruiz Lapuente was one the Supernova Cosmology project’s members. This was one of two research groups that made the surprising discovery in 1998 that the universe was expanding at an increasing rate. This was discovered by the teams studying Type Ia Supernovae. They proposed dark energy as a possible explanation for the accelerating expansion.

Pilar-Ruiz was awarded the 2007 Gruber Prize in Cosmology as well as the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. Her research also led to the award of a Nobel Prize for her team’s principal researcher, Saul Perlmutter. He shared it with the High-z Supernova Search Team directors.

I worked in La Palma with the telescopes of Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (Canary Islands). I monitored the objects that were discovered from which I obtained their spectra and light curves. On the other hand, I also helped to perform the team’s joint analyses…We carry out observations every fifteen days. First, we take reference images and then we go back to them after around fifteen days, when we expect to find some new ones. Hence, we can compare images, detect variable objects and identify them as supernovae. Once they’ve been detected, we monitor them.

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Pilar Ranked on the list of most popular Astronomer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Spain. Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente celebrates birthday on May 18 of every year.