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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

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

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

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

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

References

^ ^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
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g David Bates Medal 2010: Thérèse Encrenaz, European Geosciences Union, retrieved 2023-08-06
^ ^a ^b ^c "2021 Prize Recipients", Division for Planetary Sciences, American Astronomical Society, 9 August 2021, retrieved 2023-08-06
^ ^a ^b Annuaire, Conseil scientifique, Mandat 2005 – 2010, CNRS, retrieved 2023-08-06
^ "(5443) Encrenaz", Minor Planet Center, International Astronomical Union, retrieved 2023-08-06
^ ^a ^b "Thérèse Encrenaz", Member profiles, Academia Europaea, retrieved 2023-08-06
^ Prix Deslandres: Lauréat de l'année 2014 (PDF) (in French), French Academy of Sciences, retrieved 2023-08-06
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Reviews of The Solar System:
- Cochran, William D. (March 1991), Icarus, 90 (1): 184, Bibcode:1991Icar...90..184C, doi:10.1016/0019-1035(91)90080-d{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Manfroid, Jean (1991), Ciel et Terre, 107: 29, hdl:2268/22182{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
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Review of Infrared Astronomy with ISO:
- Beichman, Charles A. (April 1993), "Progress in the infrared", Science, 260 (5104): 107–109, doi:10.1126/science.260.5104.107.a, JSTOR 2881134, PMID 17793537, S2CID 239841410
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Reviews of Comet Science:
- Petersen, Carolyn Collins (October 2001), Sky and Telescope, 102 (10): 69, Bibcode:2001S&T...102Q..69P{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Hurst, Guy M. (October 2000), Journal of the British Astronomical Association, 110: 288–289, Bibcode:2000JBAA..110..288H{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
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Review of Searching for Water in the Universe:
- Wallis, M. (November 2007), Contemporary Physics, 48 (6): 370–371, doi:10.1080/00107510701661597, S2CID 218545382{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
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Review of Planetary Systems:
- McClintock, Peter V.E. (November 2010), Contemporary Physics, 51 (6): 561–562, doi:10.1080/00107514.2010.496573, S2CID 122863425 https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/35041/1/ollivierPrePrint.pdf {{citation}}: |url= missing title (help)CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
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Reviews of Life beyond Earth:
- Chown, Marcus (31 December 2013), "Anybody out there? The how and what of alien life", New Scientist
- Foust, Jeff (2 December 2013), "Two books on astrobiology", The Space Review
- Harris, Liam (31 March 2014), Review, Astrobiology Society of Britain
- McCoustra, Martin R. S. (2014), "The chemical cradle of life", Chemistry World, 11 (4)
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Reviews of Planets: Ours and Others:
- Fletcher, Leigh N. (December 2015), Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation, 4 (3n04), doi:10.1142/s2251171715800021{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Mason, Nigel John (September 2015), Contemporary Physics, 56 (4): 511, doi:10.1080/00107514.2015.1082629, S2CID 120176051{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
^ 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