astronomy. In February 2016, she was one of five LIGO scientists present for the announcement that the first direct gravitational wave observation had been detected in September 2015. Awards González was elected fellow of the Institute of Physics (2004), the American Physical Society (2007), and the American Astronomical Society (2020). She won the Bouchet Award in 2007, the Bruno Rossi Prize in 2017, the National Academy of Sciences Award for Scientific Discovery in 2017, and the Petrie Prize Lecture in 2019. González was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017. Personal life González is married to Jorge Pullin, the Horace Hearne Chair in theoretical Physics at the Louisiana State University. Notes References External links 1965 births Living people Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences alumni Louisiana State University faculty Pennsylvania State University faculty Argentine women physicists Argentine scientists Argentine physicists Gravitational-wave astronomy Fellows of the American Physical Society Fellows of the Institute of Physics 21st-century Argentine scientists 20th-century Argentine scientists 21st-century American women scientists 20th-century American women scientists Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Fellows of the American Astronomical Society American women academics