Manuel Peimbert Sierra (born June 9, 1941) is a Mexican astronomer and a faculty member at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Haro put them to work with a Schmidt camera, and Peimbert and Bátiz found several planetary nebulae, ten of which had never been described.
They were later named the Peimbert-Bátiz nebulae, and subsequent study with astronomer Rafael Costero identified fourteen more.
[6] Peimbert was named a fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences,[7] and he was awarded one of the three TWAS Medal Lectures the first year they were held (1996).
[3] Peimbert and his wife, fellow UNAM faculty member Silvia Torres-Peimbert, were the first non-U.S. scientists to win the Hans Bethe Prize.