Santiago López de Medrano Sánchez (born October 15, 1942 in

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) is a Mexican mathematician, who works as a researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). His research has concerned knot theory,

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, and differential topology. López de Medrano did his undergraduate studies at UNAM, and earned his Ph.D. from

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in 1969, under the supervision of William Browder. He returned to UNAM as a researcher and professor in 1968, and was president of the Mexican Mathematical Society from 1969 to 1973. López de Medrano presented his work on

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s at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1970. In 2012, he became one of the inaugural

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s of the

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.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2014-12-19.

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