Julieta Norma Fierro Gossman

Julieta Norma Fierro Gossman (born February 24, 1948) is a Mexican astrophysicist and science communicator. She is a researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) Institute of Astronomy [es].

Julieta Fierro studied physics at the UNAM School of Sciences.

She hosted a television series entitled Más allá de las estrellas (Beyond the Stars), which was chosen best science video in Mexico in 1998. She was UNAM's General Director of Scientific Outreach from 2000 to 2004. She has written 40 books, of which 23 are on popular science, and dozens of articles in various publications. One of her writings was published in Mayan. She participated in the creation of the Universum astronomy room and the Museo Descubre of Aguascalientes. She collaborated on the creation of a science museum in Puerto Rico and the McDonald Observatory in the United States and the Sutherland in South Africa.

She is a currently a researcher at the UNAM Institute of Astronomy [es] and a professor at the university's School of Sciences. She was elected a member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua on July 24, 2003, and took possession of its 25th chair on August 26, 2004. She was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Spanish Academy on April 21, 2005.

• Third World Network of Scientific Organizations outreach award, 1992
• Kalinga Prize, UNESCO, 1995
• Primo Rovis Gold Medal, Trieste Center of Astrophysical Theory, 1996
• Klumpke-Roberts Award, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1998
• National Award for Science Journalism, 1998
• Latin American Award for the Popularization of Science, Chile, 2001
• Citizen's Medal of Merit from the Mexico City Assembly of Representatives, 2003
• Benito Juárez Medal, 2004
• Flama Recognition, Autonomous University of Nuevo León, 2005
• Doctor honoris causa, Coordinadora de Identidades Territoriales Mapuche and Michoacan University of Saint Nicholas of Hidalgo
• Vasco de Quiroga Medal, 2011
• TWAS-ROLAC Regional Prize, 2017

• La familia del Sol (1989), co-authored with Miguel Ángel Herrera, Cultural Economic Fund, ISBN 978-968-16-7076-4. Part of the collection "La ciencia para todos", #62, and the Classroom Libraries collection.
• Extraterrestres (2000), Lectorum, ISBN 968-5270-10-4. Part of the Classroom Libraries collection.
• Fronteras el universo (2000), co-authored with Manuel Peimbert (compiler), Silvia Torres-Peimbert, Miguel Ángel Herrera, Miriam Peña, Luis Felipe Rodríguez [es], Dany Page, José Jesús González, Déborah Dultzin, Cultural Economic Fund, ISBN 9789681661038. Wrote one chapter about planetary systems. Part of the collection "La ciencia para todos", #176.
• La astronomía de México (2001), Lectorum, ISBN 968-5270-55-4. Reissued in 2005.
• Albert Einstein: Un científico de nuestro tiempo (2005), co-authored with Héctor Domínguez, Lectorum, ISBN 970-32-1108-9
• Lo grandioso de la luz, Gran paseo por la ciencia (2005), Editorial Nuevo México, ISBN 970-677-181-6
• Lo grandioso del tiempo, Gran paseo por la ciencia (2005), Editorial Nuevo México, ISBN 970-677-179-4
• Cartas Astrales: Un romance científico del tercer tipo (2006), co-authored with Adolfo Sánchez Valenzuela, Alfaguara, ISBN 968-19-1175-X
• La luz de las estrellas (2006), co-authored with Héctor Domínguez, Ediciones La Vasija, ISBN 970-756-095-9
• Galileo y el telescopio, 400 años de ciencia (2007), co-authored with Héctor Domínguez, Uribe y Ferrari Editores, ISBN 970-756-238-2
• Newton, la luz y el movimiento de los cuerpos (2007), co-authored with Héctor Domínguez, Uribe y Ferrari Editores, ISBN 9789707562820
• Nebulosas planetarias: la hermosa muerte de las estrellas (2009), co-authored with Silvia Torres-Peimbert, Cultural Economic Fund, ISBN 978-607-16-0072-1. Part of the collection "La ciencia para todos", #220.
• La Evolución Química del Sol (2012), co-authored with Manuel Peimbert, Cultural Economic Fund, ISBN 978-607-16-12373. Part of the collection "La ciencia para todos", #234.