Antonio Peña Díaz (born in 1936) is a Mexican

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who received the Carlos J. Finlay Prize for Microbiology (

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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

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(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)

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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