The American influence on the origins of nuclear physics in Mexico

• Autores: María de la Paz Ramos Lara
• Localización: The Circulation of Science and Technology: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science. Barcelona, 18-20 November 2010 / coord. por Antoni M. Roca Rosell, 2012, ISBN 978-84-9965-108-8, págs. 759-762
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In 1938 arrived to Mexico the expert in nuclear physics Marietta Blau (Austrian physicist), who worked at the National Polytechnic Institute –Instituto Politécnico Nacional. However, she decided to move to the United States in 1944 without producing any incidence in the development of this field. Years later, several Mexican students returned to Mexico after finishing their doctoral studies in US universities. Two of them promoted nuclear physics at the University of Mexico. Marcos Moshinsky worked in theoretical nuclear physics while Nabor Carrillo promoted experimental nuclear physics acquiring equipment from US companies. In addition, Manuel Sandoval Vallarta, the first Mexican with a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Carrillo and the Mexican physicist Carlos Graef were the first scientists who represented Mexico in the international meetings of nuclear energy.