The National College ( es, Colegio Nacional, links=no) is a Mexican honorary

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with a strictly limited membership created by

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in 1943 in order to bring together the country's foremost artists and scientists, who are periodically invited to deliver lectures and seminars in their respective area of speciality. Membership is generally a lifelong commitment, although it could be forfeited under certain conditions. It should not be confused with ''

El Colegio de México El Colegio de México, A.C. (commonly known as Colmex, English: The College of Mexico) is a Mexican institute of higher education, specializing in teaching and research in social sciences and humanities. The college was founded in 1940 by the ...

'', a public institution of higher education and research.

History

The college was founded on 8 April 1943. with the purpose of promoting Mexican culture and scholarship in a number of different fields. Its motto is "Libertad por saber" (Freedom through knowing) and its emblem is an eagle taking off (symbolizing freedom of thought) above a flaming sun (representing wisdom). The college's foundation decree, signed by General

Manuel Ávila Camacho Manuel Ávila Camacho (; 24 April 1897 – 13 October 1955) was a Mexican politician and military leader who served as the President of Mexico from 1940 to 1946. Despite participating in the Mexican Revolution and achieving a high rank, he cam ...

, limited membership to twenty Mexican-born citizens, who were supposed to deliver their lectures and or seminars in its official premises at

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. A subsequent amendment signed by President

Luis Echeverría Luis Echeverría Álvarez (; 17 January 1922 – 8 July 2022) was a Mexican lawyer, academic, and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), who served as the 57th president of Mexico from 1970 to 1976. Previously ...

in 1971 increased the limit to forty and members were given the choice of delivering both their lectures or seminars in places other than the capital. Those aged 70 and over were released, at their discretion, from that obligation. Naturalized Mexicans can also been appointed, provided that at least ten years had passed since they acquired citizenship. In 1995, President

Ernesto Zedillo Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León (; born 27 December 1951) is a Mexican economist and politician. He was 61st president of Mexico from 1 December 1994 to 30 November 2000, as the last of the uninterrupted 71-year line of Mexican presidents from t ...

amended the rules so that naturalized Mexicans could be admitted to the college irrespective of the date on which they acquired citizenship.

Building

The property on which the Colegio sits used to belong to the Convent of La Enseñanza. When the convent was closed in 1863, due to the

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, this site first became the Palace of Justice. Later, the property was split to house the General Notary Archives and the Colegio. The building took on its present appearance in 1871. During the presidency of

Lázaro Cárdenas Lázaro Cárdenas del Río (; 21 May 1895 – 19 October 1970) was a Mexican army officer and politician who served as president of Mexico from 1934 to 1940. Born in Jiquilpan, Michoacán, to a working-class family, Cárdenas joined the Me ...

, the building was used by the Unified Socialist Youth Movement. The main access to the building is from Luis Gonzalez Obregon Street, between Rep. de Argentina and Rep. de Brazil Streets. This used to be the back entrance to the convent. The facade of the building has three levels and is covered in tezontle, a blood-red, porous, volcanic stone. The doors, windows and balconies are framed in chiluca, a greyish-white stone. The windows and balconies have ironwork railings and window guards. The main entrance leads to an entrance hall, which leads to a central patio. The ground floor of the patio is marked with

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s while the upper level has columns. The main room in the building is the assembly hall, where debates take place, new members are initiated and congresses in the college's various specialities are conducted. The building houses a collection of nine gilded altarpieces that date from the end of the 17th century, with the largest of these dedicated to the

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. Among the paintings on display are "The

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" and "The Virgin of the

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Apocalypse", both done by Andres Lopez in 1779.

Members

The first date is the admission date to The National College; the second is the date of death or resignation/expulsion.

Founders

Alfonso Reyes Alfonso Reyes Ochoa (17 May 1889 in Monterrey, Nuevo León – 27 December 1959 in Mexico City) was a Mexican writer, philosopher and diplomat. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times and has been acclaimed as one of t ...

, writer and diplomat *

Diego Rivera Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez, known as Diego Rivera (; December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957), was a prominent Mexican painter. His large frescoes helped establish the ...

, painter and muralist *

José Vasconcelos José Vasconcelos Calderón (28 February 1882 – 30 June 1959), called the "cultural " of the Mexican Revolution, was an important Mexican writer, philosopher, and politician. He is one of the most influential and controversial personalities ...

, writer and philosopher *

José Clemente Orozco José Clemente Orozco (November 23, 1883 – September 7, 1949) was a Mexican caricaturist and painter, who specialized in political murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance together with murals by Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Si ...

, painter and muralist *

Enrique González Martínez Enrique González Martínez (April 13, 1871 in Guadalajara, Jalisco – February 19, 1952 in Mexico City) was a Mexican poet, diplomat, surgeon and obstetrician. His poetry is considered to be primarily Modernist in nature, with elements of Fr ...

, poet and diplomat * Ezequiel A. Chávez, *

Antonio Caso Antonio Caso Andrade (December 19, 1883 – March 6, 1946) was a Mexican philosopher and rector of the former ''Universidad Nacional de México'', nowadays known as the National Autonomous University of Mexico from December 1921 to August ...

, philosopher * Ignacio Chávez, cardiologist * Isaac Ochoterena * Manuel Uribe y Troncoso, ophthalmologist *

Carlos Chávez Carlos Antonio de Padua Chávez y Ramírez (13 June 1899 – 2 August 1978) was a Mexican composer, conductor, music theorist, educator, journalist, and founder and director of the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra. He was influenced by nativ ...

, composer *

Mariano Azuela Mariano Azuela González (January 1, 1873 – March 1, 1952) was a Mexican author and physician, best known for his fictional stories of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. He wrote novels, works for theatre and literary criticism. He is the fi ...

, novelist of the

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* Manuel Sandoval Vallarta,

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physicist, former mentor of

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and Julius Stratton. *

Alfonso Caso Alfonso Caso y Andrade (February 1, 1896 in Mexico City – November 30, 1970 in Mexico City) was an archaeologist who made important contributions to pre-Columbian studies in his native Mexico. Caso believed that the systematic study of ancient M ...

, archaeologist * Ezequiel Ordóñez

Members admitted in the 20th century

* Ignacio González Guzmán (22 November 1943; † 2 December 1946) Haemotology and cytology *

Manuel Toussaint Manuel may refer to: People * Manuel (name) * Manuel (Fawlty Towers), a fictional character from the sitcom ''Fawlty Towers'' * Charlie Manuel, manager of the Philadelphia Phillies * Manuel I Komnenos, emperor of the Byzantine Empire * Manu ...

(21 January 1946; † 2 December 1946) Art history and criticism *

Silvio Zavala Silvio Arturo Zavala Vallado (February 7, 1909 – December 4, 2014) was a Mexican historian who was considered to be a pioneer in law history studies and Mexico’s institutions. Biography Early life Silvio Zavala was born on February 7, 1909 i ...

(6 January 1947) History *

Arturo Rosenblueth Arturo Rosenblueth Stearns (October 2, 1900 – September 20, 1970) was a Mexican researcher, physician and physiologist, who is known as one of the pioneers of cybernetics. Biography Rosenblueth was born in 1900 in Ciudad Guerrero, Chihuahua. ...

(6 October 1947; † 20 September 1970) Physiology * Antonio Castro Leal (9 August 1948; † 7 January 1981) Humanities * Jesús Silva Herzog (16 November 1948; † 13 March 1985) Economics * Gerardo Murillo "Dr. Atl" (6 November 1950; resigned 7 May 1951) Painting *

Daniel Cosío Villegas Daniel Cosío Villegas (July 23, 1898 – March 10, 1976) was a Mexican prominent economist, essayist, historian, and diplomat. Cosío Villegas was born in Mexico City. After studying one year in engineering and two years of philosophy, he receiv ...

(2 April 1951; † 10 March 1976) History *

Samuel Ramos Samuel Ramos Magaña, PhD (1897 – June 20, 1959), was a Mexican philosopher and writer. Ramos was born in Zitácuaro, Michoacán, and in 1909 entered the Colegio de San Nicolás Hidalgo (Michoacán's state university). He published his f ...

(8 July 1952; † 20 June 1959) Philosophy *

Agustín Yáñez Agustín Yáñez Delgadillo (May 4, 1904 in Guadalajara, Jalisco – January 17, 1980 in Mexico City) was a Mexican writer and politician who served as Governor of Jalisco and Secretary of Public Education during Gustavo Díaz Ordaz's preside ...

(8 July 1952; † 17 January 1980) Literature * Guillermo Haro (6 July 1953; † 27 April 1988) Astronomy *

Jaime Torres Bodet Jaime Mario Torres Bodet (17 April 1902 – 13 May 1974) was a prominent Mexican politician and writer who served in the executive cabinet of three Presidents of Mexico. Life Torres Bodet was born in Mexico City. His mother was Emilia Bodet ...

(6 July 1953; † 15 May 1974) Poetry and literary criticism * Manuel Martínez Báez (7 March 1955; † 19 January 1987) Preventive medicine * Eduardo García Máynez (4 November 1957; † 2 September 1993) Philosophy of law *

José Adem José Adem (27 October 1921 – 14 February 1991) was a Mexican mathematician who worked in algebraic topology, and proved the Adem relations between Steenrod squares. Life and education Born José Adem Chahín in Tuxpan, Veracruz, (published ...

(4 April 1960; † 14 February 1991) Mathematics *

José Villagrán García José Villagrán García (22 September 1901 – 10 June 1982) was a Mexican architect. Career He is known for having developed several theories of Modernist architecture, and for designing the master plan for the National Autonomous Unive ...

(4 April 1960; † 10 June 1982) Architecture * Antonio Gómez Robledo (7 October 1960; † 3 October 1994) Law and philosophy * Victor L. Urquidi (18 October 1960; resigned 1 January 1968) Economics *

Octavio Paz Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican poet and diplomat. For his body of work, he was awarded the 1977 Jerusalem Prize, the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and ...

(1 August 1967; † 19 April 1998) Poetry and literature, recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. *

Miguel León-Portilla Miguel León-Portilla (22 February 1926 – 1 October 2019) was a Mexican anthropologist and historian, specializing in Aztec culture and literature of the pre-Columbian and colonial eras. Many of his works were translated to English and he was ...

(23 March 1971) Ancient Mexican history *

Ignacio Bernal Ignacio Bernal (February 13, 1910 in Paris - January 24, 1992 in Mexico City) was an eminent Mexican anthropologist and archaeologist. Bernal excavated much of Monte Albán, originally starting as a student of Alfonso Caso, and later led major ar ...

(4 April 1972; † 24 January 1992) Anthropology *

Rubén Bonifaz Nuño Rubén Bonifaz Nuño (12 November 1923 – 31 January 2013) was a Mexican poet and classics, classical scholar. Born in Córdoba, Veracruz, he studied law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) from 1934 to 1947. In 1960, he b ...

(4 April 1972) Poetry and literature *

Antonio Carrillo Flores Antonio Carrillo Flores (June 23, 1909 – March 20, 1986) was a Mexican statesman, born in Mexico City. He was the second son of composer Julián Carrillo Trujillo, and older brother of Nabor Carrillo, rector of the National University and ...

(4 April 1972; † 20 March 1987) Law * Ramón de la Fuente (4 April 1972; † 31 March 2006) Psychiatrist; chaired the

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, served as vice-president of

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and founded the

Mexican Institute of Psychiatry Mexican may refer to: Mexico and its culture *Being related to, from, or connected to the country of Mexico, in North America ** People *** Mexicans, inhabitants of the country Mexico and their descendants *** Mexica, ancient indigenous peopl ...

. *

Carlos Fuentes Carlos Fuentes Macías (; ; November 11, 1928 – May 15, 2012) was a Mexican novelist and essayist. Among his works are ''The Death of Artemio Cruz'' (1962), '' Aura'' (1962), '' Terra Nostra'' (1975), ''The Old Gringo'' (1985) and ''Christophe ...

(4 April 1972; † 15 May 2012) Novels and literature *

Alfonso García Robles Alfonso García Robles (20 March 1911 – 2 September 1991) was a Mexican diplomat and politician who, in conjunction with Sweden's Alva Myrdal, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. García Robles was born in Zamora, Michoacán, and trained ...

(4 April 1972; † 2 September 1991) International law *

Marcos Moshinsky Marcos Moshinsky Borodiansky (russian: Маркос Мошинский Бородянский; uk, Маркос Мошинскі; 1921–2009) was a Mexican physicist of Ukrainian-Jewish origin whose work in the field of elementary particles wo ...

(4 April 1972) Theoretical physicist; winner of the

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. * Jesús Romo Armeria (4 April 1972; † 14 May 1977) Applied chemistry *

Emilio Rosenblueth Emilio Rosenblueth Deutsch (1926–1994) was a Mexican engineer who devoted himself to the research of seismic events, and in particular to study the behavior of buildings against earthquakes and other seismic activity. Born in Mexico City, Ro ...

(4 April 1972; † 11 January 1994) Seismic engineering *

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(4 April 1972) Philosophy *

Ramón Xirau Ramón Xirau Subías (, ; 20 January 1924 – 26 July 2017) was a Spanish-born Mexican poet, philosopher and literary critic.
...

(1 October 1973) Philosophy * Julián Adem (23 October 1974) Geophysics * Carlos Casas Campillo (23 October 1974; † 6 October 1994) Microbiology * Héctor Fix-Zamudio (23 October 1974) Legal procedure and comparative law *

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(23 October 1974) Immunology * Jaime García Terrés (23 October 1974; † 29 April 1996) Poetry and literature *

Bernardo Sepúlveda Gutiérrez Bernardo is a given name and less frequently an Italian, Portuguese and Spanish surname. Possibly from the Germanic "Bernhard". Given name People * Bernardo the Japanese (died 1557), early Japanese Christian convert and disciple of Saint Franc ...

(24 October 1975; † 17 March 1985) Gastroenterology *

Leopoldo Solís Leopoldo is a given name, the Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese form of the English, German, Dutch, Polish, and Slovene name, Leopold. Notable people with the name include: *Leopoldo de' Medici (1617–1675), Italian cardinal and Governor of Sien ...

(13 October 1976) Economics *

Leopoldo García-Colín Leopoldo García-Colín Scherer (27 November 1930, in Mexico City – 8 October 2012, in Mexico City) was a Mexican scientist specialized in Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics who received the National Prize for Arts and Sciences in 1988. ...

(12 September 1977) Physicist; winner of the 1988 National Prize for Arts and Sciences and former chair of the Mexican Society of Physics (1972-1973). *

Luis González y González Luis González y González (11 October 1925 – 13 December 2003) was a Mexican historian from San José de Gracia, Michoacán, San José de Gracia, Michoacán. He was an expert on the Mexican revolution and Mexican presidentialism. He publi ...

(8 November 1978) History of Mexico *

Luis Villoro Luis Villoro Toranzo (3 November 1922 – 5 March 2014) was a Spanish–Mexicans, Mexican philosopher, researcher, university professor, diplomat, academic and writer. He published more than ten books between 1950 and 2007. Villoro was bor ...

(14 November 1978) Philosophy *

Ruy Pérez Tamayo Ruy Pérez Tamayo (8 November 1924 – 26 January 2022) was a Mexican medical pathologist, immunologist, researcher, science communicator and academic. Life and career Born in Tampico, Pérez Tamayo graduated in medicine and specialised in pa ...

(27 November 1980) Pathology *

Salvador Elizondo Salvador Elizondo Alcalde (Mexico City, December 19, 1932 - March 29, 2006) was a Mexican writer of the 60s Generation of Mexican literature. Regarded as one of the creators of the most influential cult noirè, experimental, intelligent style ...

(28 April 1981; † 29 March 2006) Literature and literary criticism *

Antonio Alatorre Antonio Alatorre Vergara (July 25, 1922 – October 21, 2010) was a Mexican writer, philologist and translator, famous due to his influential academic essays about Spanish literature, and because of his book ''Los 1001 años de la lengua espa� ...

(26 June 1981) Philology *

Guillermo Soberón Acevedo Guillermo () is the Spanish form of the male given name William. The name is also commonly shortened to 'Guille' or, in Latin America, to nickname 'Memo'. People *Guillermo Amor (born 1967), Spanish football manager and former player *Guillermo Ar� ...

(5 November 1981) Biochemistry and higher education * Gustavo Cabrera (19 November 1981) demographer; winner of the 1981 National Prize for Demography. * Marcos Mazari Menzer (11 November 1982) Nuclear physics *

Eduardo Mata Eduardo Mata (5 September 19425 January 1995) was a Mexican conductor and composer. Career Mata was born in Mexico City. He studied guitar privately for three years before enrolling in the National Conservatory of Music. From 1960 to 1963 he ...

(9 August 1984; † 4 January 1995) Music *

Gabriel Zaid Gabriel Zaid is a Mexican writer, poet and intellectual. Early life He was born in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo León, on January 24, 1934, son of Palestinian immigrants, is a Mexican thinker (poet, essayist, economist, businessman, engineer, a ...

(26 September 1984) Poetry and literature *

Beatriz de la Fuente Beatriz Ramírez de la Fuente (6 February 1929, in Mexico City – 20 June 2005, in Mexico City) was a Mexican art historian, notable for her work on pre-Hispanic art in America. In 1998, she was elected a member of the Academia Mexicana de la His ...

(7 May 1985) Art history * Adolfo Martínez Palomo (6 June 1985) Pathology and cellular biology * José Emilio Pacheco (9 October 1986) Novels and literature *

Samuel Gitler Hammer Samuel Carlos Gitler Hammer (July 14, 1933 – September 9, 2014)
José Sarukhán Kérmez José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacul ...

(26 June 1987) Biology *

Arcadio Poveda Ricalde Renán Arcadio Poveda Ricalde (15 July 1930 – 24 March 2022 Teodoro González de León Teodoro González de León (May 29, 1926 – September 16, 2016) was a Mexican architect. Biography González de León studied at the Escuela Nacional de Arquitectura of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) from 1942 to 19 ...

(28 October 1989) Architecture *

Rufino Tamayo Rufino del Carmen Arellanes Tamayo (August 25, 1899 – June 24, 1991) was a Mexican painter of Zapotec heritage, born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico.Sullivan, 170-171Ades, 357 Tamayo was active in the mid-20th century in Mexico and New York, ...

(21 May 1991; † 24 June 1991) Painting *

Pablo Rudomín Pablo is a Spanish form of the name Paul. People * Pablo Alborán, Spanish singer *Pablo Aimar, Argentine footballer *Pablo Armero, Colombian footballer * Pablo Bartholomew, Indian photojournalist *Pablo Brandán, Argentine footballer * Pablo Bren ...

(25 February 1993) Physiology * Manuel Peimbert (24 May 1993) Astronomy *

Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Eduardo Matos Moctezuma (born December 11, 1940) is a Mexican archaeologist. From 1978 to 1982 he directed excavations at the Templo Mayor, the remains of a major Aztec pyramid in central Mexico City. Matos Moctezuma graduated with a ma ...

(24 June 1993) Archaeology * Donato Alarcón Segovia (9 November 1994) Medicine * Vicente Rojo (16 November 1994) artist; recipient of the National Prize for Arts and Sciences. * Francisco Bolívar Zapata (8 December 1994) Biotechnology *

Octavio Novaro Octavio Augusto Novaro Peñalosa (4 July 1939 – 6 March 2018) was a prominent theoretical physicist specialized in theoretical catalysis, physical chemistry, biophysics and geophysics. He received the National Prize for Arts and Sciences i ...

(27 October 1995) theoretical physicist; winner of the 1993

. *

Fernando del Paso Fernando del Paso Morante (April 1, 1935 – November 14, 2018) was a Mexican novelist, essayist and poet. Biography Del Paso was born in Mexico City and took two years in economics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He ...

(12 February 1996) Literature * Alejandro Rossi (22 February 1996) Philosophy *

Mario Lavista Mario Lavista (April 3, 1943 – November 4, 2021) was a Mexican composer, writer and intellectual. Life and career Lavista was born in Mexico City. He enrolled the Composition Workshop (Taller de Composición) at the National Conservatory in 19 ...

(14 October 1998) Music * Luis Felipe Rodríguez Jorge (24 February 2000), radioastronomer, discoverer of double-sided radio jets from the galactic sources 1E1740.7-2942 and GRS 1758-258 and superluminal motion of radio knots in the galactic source

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. Winner of the 1996

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of the

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and the Mexican National Prize of Science.

Members admitted in the 21st century

Mario J. Molina Mario José Molina-Pasquel Henríquez (19 March 19437 October 2020), known as Mario Molina, was a Mexican chemist. He played a pivotal role in the discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole, and was a co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemis ...

(24 April 2003), co-recipient of the 1995

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for elucidating the threat to the Earth's

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gases (CFCs). *

Enrique Krauze Enrique Krauze (Mexico City, September 16, 1947) is a Mexican historian, essayist, editor, and entrepreneur. He has written more than twenty books, some of which are: ''Mexico: Biography of Power'', ''Redeemers'', and ''El pueblo soy yo'' (''I a ...

(27 April 2005), historian and cultural promoter, member of the board of

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and the Mexican Academy of History. * Eusebio Juaristi (13 February 2006), researcher on Physical chemistry, winner of the 1998 National Prize of Arts and Sciences. * María Elena Medina-Mora Icaza (6 April 2006), researcher at the National Institute of Psychiatry, winner of the 1986 Gerardo Varela National Prize of Public Health. *

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(13 February 2007), former

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and researcher at 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). * Luis Fernando Lara (5 March 2007), linguist, member of

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's Permanent International Committee of Linguists. * Linda Rosa Manzanilla (9 April 2007), archaeologist specialized in domestic archaeology in early urban developments, first Mexican woman ever admitted to the United States

National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nati ...

. * Ranulfo Romo (9 March 2011), neuroscientist and researcher at the

(UNAM). * Jaime Urrutia Fucugauchi (4 February 2014), geophysicist, president of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, and researcher at the

(UNAM). * José Ramón Cossío Díaz (11 February 2014), lawyer and jurist, member of the Supreme Court of the Nation. *

Juan Villoro Juan Villoro (born 24 September 1956, in Mexico City) is a Mexican writer and journalist and the son of philosopher Luis Villoro. He has been well known among intellectual circles in Mexico, Latin America and Spain for years, but his success among ...

, (24 February 2014), author. *

Antonio Lazcano Antonio Eusebio Lazcano Araujo Reyes (born 1950) is a Mexican biology researcher and professor of the School of Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City.

(6 October 2014), biologist specialized in the origins of life. Professor at the

(UNAM). * Alejandro Frank Hoeflich (31 March 2016), physicist and researcher at the

(UNAM). * Julia Carabias Lillo (27 August 2018), biologist and environmental conservationist. *

Leonardo López Luján Leonardo Náuhmitl López Luján (born 31 March 1964 in Mexico City) is an archaeologist and one of the leading researchers of pre-Hispanic Central Mexican societies and the history of archaeology in Mexico. He is director of the Templo Mayor Pro ...

(15 March 2019), archaeologist and director of the Templo Mayor Project (INAH).

References

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