Jorge Sahade

Jorge Sahade (born February 17, 1915, in Cordoba, Argentina, died December 18, 2012) was an Argentine astronomer with more than 200 publications in journals and conferences. He was the first Latin American to achieve the presidency of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) between 1985 and 1988, and was also the first director of the Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales. He held this position between 1991 and 1994. After finishing his degree, he and Carlos Ulrrico Cesco (the first astronomy graduate in the country) obtained scholarships to go to the United States to learn astrophysics. The construction of this telescope was in the United States. The telescope was modeled after the one at Kitt Peak National Observatory. The telescope's blueprints were a gift from Kitt Peak's director Nicholas Mayall. and between March 1968 and July 1969 he served as director of the Observatory of La Plata. In 1969 he became the first dean of the Faculty of Exact Sciences of the National University of La Plata.

He founded the Institute of Astronomy and Physics of Space (IAFE) in the first Pavilion of the University of Buenos Aires, and was also the first director of the Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales. He held this position between 1991 and 1994. 1988 - Medal of Scientific Consecration (in Astronomy) of the Council of Advanced International Studies. 1993 - Ricardo P. Platzeck Prize in Astronomy, National Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences. 1995 - Researcher Emeritus of CONICET. 1999 - Gold Medal of the Argentina Friends of Astronomy Association. with Frank Bradshaw Wood: 2015 reprint

as editor with George Eadon McCluskey, Jr. and Yoji Kondo: