# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maria-teresa-ruiz
# Generated: 2026-08-16T00:17:14.976Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/maria-teresa-ruiz"
name: "María Teresa Ruiz"
slug: "maria-teresa-ruiz"
description: "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."
tagline: "Chilean astronomer"
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gender: "female"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1946-09-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump