Arcadio Poveda

Infobox Scientist


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name = Arcadio Poveda
birth_date = 15 July 1930
birth_place = Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico citeweb | author = El Colegio Nacional | title = Miembros: Poveda Ricalde, Arcadio | url = http://www.colegionacional.org.mx/SACSCMS/XStatic/colegionacional/template/content.aspx?se=vida&te=detallemiembro&mi=138 | language = Spanish | accessdate = 2008-06-08 ]
residence = Mexico City
nationality = Mexican
field = Astronomy
work_institution = National Autonomous University of Mexico
alma_mater = University of California, Berkeleyciteweb | first = Arcadio | last = Poveda | title = Curriculum vitae | url = http://www.colegionacional.org.mx/SACSCMS/XStatic/colegionacional/template/pdf/1989/06%20-%20Arcadio%20Poveda%20Ricalde_%20Curriculum%20vitae.pdf | formattype = pdf | language = Spanish | accessdate = 2008-06-10 |format=PDF]
doctoral_advisor =
known_for = Poveda's formulaciteweb |first = James |last = Binney | title= Dynamics of Elliptical Galaxies and Other Spheroidal Components | publisher = Annual Reviews | date = 1982 | url = http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/March04/Binney/Binney3_2.html | accessdate = 2008-06-10 ]
prizes = National Prize for Science (1975)
footnotes =

Arcadio Poveda Ricalde (born 15 July 1930) is a prominent Mexican astronomer who developed a method to calculate the mass of elliptical galaxies. He received Mexico's National Prize for Science in 1975, chaired its National Astronomical Observatory from 1968 to 1980 and was elected to The National College in 1989.

Poveda was born in Mérida, Yucatán. He initially enrolled at the National Autonomous University of Mexico but ended up graduating with both a Bachelor of Arts degree (1953) and a PhD in Astronomy (1956) from the University of California, Berkeley. Afterward, he moved back to Mexico and enrolled at the Institute of Astronomy of the National Autonomous University, where he has worked as a researcher since 1956. As a visiting scholar, he has lectured at the Institute of Astrophysics (CNRS) in France (1963), Columbia University (1967), Kitt Peak National Observatory (1981-82, 1983-84), and at the University of California, San Diego (1982-1983).

A public planetarium in his native Mérida, Yucatán, is named in his honor.citeweb |author=Municipality of Mérida | title = Planetario Arcadio Poveda | url = http://www.merida.gob.mx/planetario/principal.htm | language = Spanish | accessdate = 2008-06-10 ]

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NAME = Poveda, Arcadio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Poveda Ricalde, Arcadio; Poveda-Ricalde, Arcadio
SHORT DESCRIPTION = Mexican astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH = 15 July 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH = Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
DATE OF DEATH =
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