Antonio Peña Díaz (born in 1936) is a

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who received the

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(

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, 2003) and chaired both the

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(1992–93) and the Mexican Society of Biochemistry (1981–83). Peña Díaz holds a bachelor's degree in Medicine and both a master's and a doctorate degree from the

National Autonomous University of Mexico The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigges ...

(UNAM). He is currently an

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of the Institute for Cellular Physiology of the same university and has worked as a visiting scholar at the

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Selected works

*' ("Biochemistry", 1979) *' ("The Membranes of the Cell", 1986) *' ("Energy and Life: Bioenergetics", with Georges Dreyfus Cortés, 1990) *' ("How Does a Cell Work: Cellular Physiology", 1995) *' ("What is Metabolism?", 2001)

Notes and references

Mexican biochemists Members of the Mexican Academy of Sciences National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni Academic staff of the National Autonomous University of Mexico University of Rochester faculty People from Durango 1936 births Living people 21st-century Mexican scientists 20th-century Mexican scientists {{biochemist-stub