Guillermo Haro
Guillermo Haro (born March 21, 1913 in Mexico City , † April 26, 1988 ) was a Mexican astronomer .
He grew up in the turmoil of the Mexican Revolution and initially studied philosophy at the National Free University of Mexico (UNAM). Gradually, however, his interest in astronomy was awakened and in 1943 he was appointed as an assistant at the newly founded Observatorio Astrofísico de Tonantzintla . To complete his knowledge he also went to the USA and worked at the Harvard Observatory in 1943 and 1944. There were also flying visits to the Case Observatory, the University of Chicago and the McDonald Observatory in Texas.
In 1945 he returned to the Observatorio Astrofísico de Tonantzintla , where he supervised the Schmidt telescope and devoted himself to the study of red and blue stars. In 1947 he moved to the Observatorio de Tacubaya of the UNAM, whose director he became. In 1951 he founded the Boletin de Los Observatorios de Tonantzintla y Tacubaya . He worked for this magazine until 1983. In addition, in 1968 he founded the observatory in Sierra San Pedro Mártir , Baja California , which now bears his name.
During his work he discovered the so-called Herbig-Haro objects independently of George Howard Herbig . These are gas clouds that belong to young stars. He also compiled a catalog of 8746 blue stars and 44 blue galaxies. He also discovered several T-Tauri stars, a supernova, 10 novae and comet C / 1954 Y1 (Haro-Chavira).
Awards
- 1985 Lomonosov Gold Medal of the Soviet Academy of Sciences
Individual evidence
Web links
- Publications by G. Haro in the Astrophysics Data System
- A. Serrano: Guillermo Haro. Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica, 16 (1988), 69. (Obituary, Spanish / English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haro, Guillermo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mexico city |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 26, 1988 |