Luis Fernando de la Peña-Auerbach known as Luis de la Peña is a Mexican

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, born in

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in 1931. He is a researcher of the Institute of Physics and professor of the Faculty of Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and is a member of the Science Advisory Council of the Presidency of Mexico. He graduated from ESIME of the

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with a degree in mechanical-electrical engineering and began his professional activity as a designer of

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s. From 1954 was professor of the ESIME and from 1958 definitively joined UNAM. He completed his PhD in 1964 under the direction of

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at the

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in the

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. He is known most for his contributions towards the field of stochastic electrodynamics (SED). In 2002 he was awarded the

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in the Physics, Mathematics, and Natural Sciences category.

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1931 births Living people Theoretical physicists 20th-century Mexican physicists Quantum physicists People from Mexico City Instituto Politécnico Nacional alumni Moscow State University alumni National Autonomous University of Mexico faculty National Prize for Arts and Sciences (Mexico) {{physicist-stub