Biography – Disctinctions and awards
Distinctions
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- Knight of the Legion of Honor
 - Officer in the National Order of Merit
 - Officer in the Order of Academic Palms
 - Honorary member of the University Institute of France
 - Member of the Academy of Air and Space
 - Member of the Academia Europaea
 - Corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences, Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres, Toulouse
 - Corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences, Belles-Lettres and Arts of Bordeaux
 - Elected 1st woman of Midi-Pyrénées » Version Femina » in 2009
 
 
Awards
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- Manley Bendall Award 2021
 - Third prize of the high school students’ book (scientific) 2019
 - Grand prix du livre scientifique des gourmets de lettres (Académie des Jeux Floraux) 2015
 - Grand prix des amis de la Cité de l’Espace 2009
 - Prize of the Academy of Occitania 2008
 - Prize of the scientific book of Orsay 2002
 - Prize of the Cercle d’Oc 1999
 - Alpha d’Or de l’Espace 1998
 
 
The name of Sylvie Vauclair was given by the International Astronomical Union to an asteroid of the main belt: 352333 Sylvievauclair