{{Short description|French planetary scientist}} {{Use dmy dates|cs1-dates=ly|date=July 2023}} {{Use list-defined references|date=July 2023}} '''Thérèse Encrenaz''' (née '''Gounon''',{{r|legion}} born 1946) is a French planetary scientist who "played a leading role in the development of planetology in Europe".{{r|bates}} 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.{{r|kuiper}}
==Education and career== Encrenaz was born on March 10, 1946.{{r|annuaire}} After studies at the {{ill|École normale supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses|fr}}, Goddard Institute for Space Studies, University of Paris, and Paris Observatory,{{r|bates}} she earned a diplôme d'études approfondies in 1968, a doctorat de troisième cycle in 1969,{{r|annuaire}} and, in 1975, a doctorat d'état.{{r|bates}}
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,{{r|bates}} before retiring as research director emeritus.{{r|kuiper}}
She was editor-in-chief of the journal ''Planetary and Space Science'' from 2002 to 2007.{{r|bates}}
==Recognition== Encrenaz is the namesake of asteroid 5443 Encrenaz, discovered in 1991.{{r|mpc}}
She is the recipient of the 1998 CNRS Silver Medal, the 2007 Prix Jules Janssen of the Société astronomique de France,{{r|ae}} the 2010 David Bates Medal of the European Geosciences Union,{{r|bates}} the 2014 Prix Deslandres of the French Academy of Sciences,{{r|deslandres}} and the 2021 Gerard P. Kuiper Prize of the American Astronomical Society.{{r|kuiper}}
She was elected to the Academia Europaea in 2002.{{r|ae}} She was named a chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 2009, and an officier in 2019.{{r|legion}}
==Books== Encrenaz is the author or editor of many books on planetology{{r|bates}} including: *''The Solar System'' (with Jean-Pierre Bibring, Intereditions/CNRS, 1987; translated into English by S. Dunlop, Springer, 1990){{r|solar}} *''Infrared Astronomy with ISO'' (with M. F. Kessler, Nova, 1992){{r|infrared}} *''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){{r|comet}} *''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){{r|water}} *''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){{r|planetary}} *''Life beyond Earth: The Search for Habitable Worlds in the Universe'' (with Athena Coustenis, Cambridge University Press, 2013){{r|beyond}} *''Planets: Ours and Others; from Earth to Exoplanets'' (World Scientific, 2013){{r|planets}} *''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.{{r|ack}}
==References== <references>
<ref name=ack>See acknowledgements in {{citation | last = Encrenaz | first = Thérèse | date = April 2022 | doi = 10.1016/j.icarus.2022.114885 | journal = Icarus | article-number = 114885 | title = Invited review: Infrared spectroscopy of planetary atmospheres: Searching for insights into their past and present histories | volume = 376| bibcode = 2022Icar..37614885E | doi-access = free | url = https://insu.hal.science/insu-03713330/document }}</ref>
<ref name=ae>{{citation|url=https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Encrenaz_Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se|title=Thérèse Encrenaz|work=Member profiles|publisher=Academia Europaea|access-date=2023-08-06}}</ref>
<ref name=annuaire>{{citation|url=https://docplayer.fr/2393366-Annuaire-conseil-scientifique.html|title=Annuaire, Conseil scientifique, Mandat 2005 – 2010|publisher=CNRS|access-date=2023-08-06}}</ref>
<ref name=bates>{{citation|url=https://www.egu.eu/awards-medals/david-bates/2010/therese-encrenaz/|title=David Bates Medal 2010: Thérèse Encrenaz|publisher=European Geosciences Union|access-date=2023-08-06}}</ref>
<ref name=beyond>Reviews of ''Life beyond Earth'': *{{citation | last = Chown | first = Marcus | author-link = Marcus Chown | date = December 31, 2013 | magazine = New Scientist | title = Anybody out there? The how and what of alien life | url = https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129501-000-anybody-out-there-the-how-and-what-of-alien-life/}} *{{citation | last = Foust | first = Jeff | author-link = Jeff Foust | date = December 2, 2013 | title = Two books on astrobiology | url = https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2411/1 | work = The Space Review}} *{{citation | last = Harris | first = Liam | date = March 31, 2014 | publisher = Astrobiology Society of Britain | title = Review | url = https://astrobiologysociety.org/life-beyond-earth-the-search-for-habitable-worlds-in-the-universe-by-athena-coustenis-therese-encrenaz/}} *{{citation | last = McCoustra | first = Martin R. S. | issue = 4 | journal = Chemistry World | title = The chemical cradle of life | url = https://researchportal.hw.ac.uk/en/publications/the-chemical-cradle-of-life-review-of-life-beyond-earth-a-cousten | volume = 11 | year = 2014}}</ref>
<ref name=comet>Reviews of ''Comet Science'': *{{citation | last = Petersen | first = Carolyn Collins | bibcode = 2001S&T...102Q..69P | date = October 2001 | issue = 10 | journal = Sky and Telescope | page = 69 | title = none | volume = 102}} *{{citation | last = Hurst | first = Guy M. | bibcode = 2000JBAA..110..288H | date = October 2000 | journal = Journal of the British Astronomical Association | pages = 288–289 | title = none | volume = 110}} </ref>
<ref name=deslandres>{{citation|url=https://www.academie-sciences.fr/archivage_site/activite/prix/laureat_deslandres.pdf|title=Prix Deslandres: Lauréat de l'année 2014|publisher=French Academy of Sciences|language=fr|access-date=2023-08-06}}</ref>
<ref name=infrared>Review of ''Infrared Astronomy with ISO'': *{{citation | last = Beichman | first = Charles A. | date = April 1993 | doi = 10.1126/science.260.5104.107.a | issue = 5104 | journal = Science | jstor = 2881134 | pages = 107–109 | title = Progress in the infrared | volume = 260| pmid = 17793537 | s2cid = 239841410 }}</ref>
<ref name=kuiper>{{citation|url=https://dps.aas.org/prizes/2021|title=2021 Prize Recipients|work=Division for Planetary Sciences|publisher=American Astronomical Society|date=9 August 2021|access-date=2023-08-06}}</ref>
<ref name=legion>{{citation|url=https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000039726325|title=Décret du 31 décembre 2019 portant promotion et nomination dans l'ordre national de la Légion d'honneur|journal=Journal Officiel|date=31 December 2019}}</ref>
<ref name=mpc>{{citation|url=https://minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=5443|title=(5443) Encrenaz|work=Minor Planet Center|publisher=International Astronomical Union|access-date=2023-08-06}}</ref>
<ref name=planetary>Review of ''Planetary Systems'': *{{citation | last = McClintock | first = Peter V.E. | date = November 2010 | doi = 10.1080/00107514.2010.496573 | issue = 6 | journal = Contemporary Physics | pages = 561–562 | title = none | volume = 51| s2cid = 122863425 | url = https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/35041/1/ollivierPrePrint.pdf }}</ref>
<ref name=planets>Reviews of ''Planets: Ours and Others'': *{{citation | last = Fletcher | first = Leigh N. | date = December 2015 | doi = 10.1142/s2251171715800021 | issue = 3n04 | journal = Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation | title = none | volume = 4| article-number = 1580002 | doi-access = free }} *{{citation | last = Mason | first = Nigel John | date = September 2015 | doi = 10.1080/00107514.2015.1082629 | issue = 4 | journal = Contemporary Physics | pages = 511 | title = none | volume = 56| s2cid = 120176051 }} </ref>
<ref name=solar>Reviews of ''The Solar System'': *{{citation | last = Cochran | first = William D. | bibcode = 1991Icar...90..184C | date = March 1991 | doi = 10.1016/0019-1035(91)90080-d | issue = 1 | journal = Icarus | page = 184 | title = none | volume = 90}} *{{citation | last = Manfroid | first = Jean | hdl = 2268/22182 | journal = Ciel et Terre | page = 29 | title = none | volume = 107 | year = 1991}}</ref>
<ref name=water>Review of ''Searching for Water in the Universe'': *{{citation | last = Wallis | first = M. | date = November 2007 | doi = 10.1080/00107510701661597 | issue = 6 | journal = Contemporary Physics | pages = 370–371 | title = none | volume = 48| s2cid = 218545382 }}</ref>
</references>
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