Sylvio Ferraz-Mello
Brazil
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| Biography | | Professor Sylvio Ferraz-Mello is a Professor at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil and Editor-in-Chief of Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy. His awards include: Doctorat d’État ès-Sciences Mathématiques, Académie de Paris, France, 1967; Full Professor, Aeronautics Institute of Technology, Sao José dos Campos, Brazil, 1971-1975; President, Celestial Mechanics Commission, International Astronomical Union, 1994-1997; Director, National Observatory, Rio de Janeiro, 1999-2001; Gra-Cruz, National Order of Scientific Merit, 1998; The asteroid 5201 was named 'Ferraz-Mello' by the International Astronomical Union in 1999. His membership includes: Brazilian Academy of Sciences, 1979; Latin American Academy of Sciences, 1983; Sao Paulo State Acad. of Sciences, 1988; the Bureau des Longitudes (Paris, France), 1998; and Real Academia de Ciencias de Zaragoza (Spain), 2005. |
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