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Thérèse Encrenaz

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Thérèse Encrenaz (née Gounon,[1] born 1946) is a French planetary scientist who "played a leading role in the development of planetology in Europe".[2] Her research concerns extraterrestrial atmospheres, particularly of the planets and comets in the Solar System. She is a research director for the CNRS, emeritus, affiliated with the Paris Observatory.[3]

Education and career

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Encrenaz was born on March 10, 1946.[4] After studies at the École normale supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses [fr], Goddard Institute for Space Studies, University of Paris, and Paris Observatory,[2] she earned a diplôme d'études approfondies in 1968, a doctorat de troisième cycle in 1969,[4] and, in 1975, a doctorat d'état.[2]

As a director of research for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the Paris Observatory, she headed the DESPA and LESIA laboratories, and became vice-president of the observatory,[2] before retiring as research director emeritus.[3]

She was editor-in-chief of the journal Planetary and Space Science from 2002 to 2007.[2]

Recognition

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Encrenaz is the namesake of asteroid 5443 Encrenaz, discovered in 1991.[5]

She is the recipient of the 1998 CNRS Silver Medal, the 2007 Prix Jules Janssen of the Société astronomique de France,[6] the 2010 David Bates Medal of the European Geosciences Union,[2] the 2014 Prix Deslandres of the French Academy of Sciences,[7] and the 2021 Gerard P. Kuiper Prize of the American Astronomical Society.[3]

She was elected to the Academia Europaea in 2002.[6] She was named a chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 2009, and an officier in 2019.[1]

Books

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Encrenaz is the author or editor of many books on planetology[2] including:

  • The Solar System (with Jean-Pierre Bibring, Intereditions/CNRS, 1987; translated into English by S. Dunlop, Springer, 1990)[8]
  • Infrared Astronomy with ISO (with M. F. Kessler, Nova, 1992)[9]
  • Comet Science: The Study of Remnants from the Birth of the Solar System (with Jacques Crovisier, Belin/CNRS, 1995; translated into English by Stephen Lyle, Cambridge University Press, 2000)[10]
  • The Outer Planets and their Moons: Comparative Studies of the Outer Planets prior to the Exploration of the Saturn System by Cassini-Huygens (with R. Kallenbach, Tobias Owen, and Christophe Sotin, Springer, 2005)
  • Searching for Water in the Universe (Springer, 2006)[11]
  • The New Worlds: Extrasolar Planets (with Fabienne Casoli, Springer, 2007)
  • Planetary Systems: Detection, Formation and Habitability of Extrasolar Planets (with Marc Ollivier, Françoise Roques, Franck Selsis, and Fabienne Casoli, Springer, 2009)[12]
  • Life beyond Earth: The Search for Habitable Worlds in the Universe (with Athena Coustenis, Cambridge University Press, 2013)[13]
  • Planets: Ours and Others; from Earth to Exoplanets (World Scientific, 2013)[14]
  • The Exoplanets Revolution (with James Lequeux and Fabienne Casoli, EDP Sciences, 2020)
  • Planets and Life (with James Lequeux and Fabienne Casoli, EDP Sciences, 2021)

Personal life

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Encrenaz is married to Pierre Encrenaz, who is also an astronomer.[15]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Décret du 31 décembre 2019 portant promotion et nomination dans l'ordre national de la Légion d'honneur", Journal Officiel, 31 December 2019
  2. ^ a b c d e f g David Bates Medal 2010: Thérèse Encrenaz, European Geosciences Union, retrieved 2023-08-06
  3. ^ a b c "2021 Prize Recipients", Division for Planetary Sciences, American Astronomical Society, 9 August 2021, retrieved 2023-08-06
  4. ^ a b Annuaire, Conseil scientifique, Mandat 2005 – 2010, CNRS, retrieved 2023-08-06
  5. ^ "(5443) Encrenaz", Minor Planet Center, International Astronomical Union, retrieved 2023-08-06
  6. ^ a b "Thérèse Encrenaz", Member profiles, Academia Europaea, retrieved 2023-08-06
  7. ^ Prix Deslandres: Lauréat de l'année 2014 (PDF) (in French), French Academy of Sciences, retrieved 2023-08-06
  8. ^ Reviews of The Solar System:
  9. ^ Review of Infrared Astronomy with ISO:
  10. ^ Reviews of Comet Science:
  11. ^ Review of Searching for Water in the Universe:
  12. ^ Review of Planetary Systems:
  13. ^ Reviews of Life beyond Earth:
  14. ^ Reviews of Planets: Ours and Others:
  15. ^ See acknowledgements in Encrenaz, Thérèse (April 2022), "Invited review: Infrared spectroscopy of planetary atmospheres: Searching for insights into their past and present histories", Icarus, 376: 114885, Bibcode:2022Icar..37614885E, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2022.114885
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