National Science and Arts Prize
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The National Prize for Arts and Sciences (Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes) is awarded annually by the Government of Mexico in six categories. It was established in 1945. The prize is a gold medal and 520,000 pesos
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Mexican peso
The peso is the currency of Mexico. Modern peso and dollar currencies have a common origin in the 15th–19th century Spanish dollar, most continuing to use its sign, "$". The Mexican peso is the 12th most traded currency in the world, the third most traded in the Americas, and by far the most...
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Language and literature
Recipients of the prize for language and literature (Lingüística y Literatura) include:- 2011: Daniel SadaDaniel SadaDaniel Sada was a Mexican poet journalist and author whose work has being hailed as one of the most important contributions to the Spanish language. He has organised many poetry workshops in Mexico City and several other cities...
- 2010: Maruxa VilaltaMaruxa VilaltaMaruxa Vilalta is a Mexican playwright and a theatre director.Her plays have been translated, published and produced in numerous countries. She has won the critic’s prize for the best play of the year ten times....
- 2005: Carlos MonsiváisCarlos MonsiváisCarlos Monsiváis Aceves was a Mexican writer, critic, political activist, and journalist. of French decent He also wrote political opinion columns in leading newspapers and was considered to be an opinion leader within the country's progressive sectors. His generation of writers includes Elena...
- 2004: Margo GlantzMargo GlantzMargo Glantz is a Mexican writer, essayist, critic and academic.- Biography :Margo Glantz's family immigrated to Mexico from Ukraine in the 1920s. Her father, Jacobo Glantz, met her mother, Elizabeth Shapiro in Odessa, where they married...
- 2002: Elena PoniatowskaElena PoniatowskaElena Poniatowska is a Mexican journalist and author. Her generation of writers include Carlos Fuentes, José Emilio Pacheco and Carlos Monsiváis.-Life:Poniatowska was born in Paris to Prince Jean Joseph Evremont Sperry Poniatowski and Paula Amor Yturbe...
- 2001: Vicente LeñeroVicente LeñeroVicente Leñero Otero is a Mexican novelist, journalist, and playwright. He has written numerous books, stories, and plays, including a theatrical adaptation of Oscar Lewis's The Children of Sanchez. He was awarded the Premio Xavier Villaurrutia in 2001, and the following year he received the...
- 1995: Juan Miguel Lope Blanch
- 1993: Sergio PitolSergio PitolSergio Pitol Demeneghi is a prominent Mexican writer, translator and diplomat. In 2005 he received the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world....
- 1987: Alí ChumaceroAli ChumaceroAlí Chumacero Lora was a Mexican poet.-Career:Chumacero was born in Acaponeta, Nayarit. He was the joint editor of Tierra Nueva magazine from 1940-42. He edited Letras de México and El Hijo Pródigo....
- 1986: Rafael Solana
- 1985: Marco Antonio Montes de Oca
- 1984: Carlos Fuentes Macías
- 1983: Jaime SabinesJaime SabinesJaime Sabines Gutiérrez was a Mexican contemporary poet. Known as “the sniper of Literature” as he formed part of a group that transformed literature into reality, he wrote ten volumes of poetry, and his work has been translated into more than twelve languages...
- 1982: Elías Nandino
- 1981: Mauricio Magdaleno
- 1980: José Luis Martínez Rodríguez
- 1979: Juan José ArreolaJuan José ArreolaJuan José Arreola Zúñiga was a Mexican writer and academic. He is considered Mexico's premier experimental short story writer of the twentieth century. Arreola is recognized as one of the first Latin American writers to abandon realism; he uses elements of fantasy to underscore existentialist and...
- 1978: Fernando Benítez
- 1977: Octavio PazOctavio PazOctavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature.-Early life and writings:...
- 1976:
- Antonio Gómez Robledo
- Efraín HuertaEfraín HuertaEfraín Huerta was a Mexican poet.Huerta began studying law at the UNAM in Mexico City but abandoned his studies in favour of journalism and literature...
- 1975: Francisco MonterdeFrancisco MonterdeFrancisco de Asís Monterde García Icazbalceta was a prolific and multifaceted Mexican writer whose career spanned over fifty years...
- 1974: Rubén Bonifaz NuñoRubén Bonifaz NuñoRubén Bonifaz Nuño is a Mexican poet and classical scholar.Born in Córdoba, Veracruz, he studied law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico from 1934 to 1947. In 1960, he began lecturing in Latin at the UNAM's Faculty of Philosophy and Literature and received a doctorate in Classics in...
- 1973: Agustín YáñezAgustín YáñezAgustín Yáñez Delgadillo was a notable Mexican writer and politician who served as Governor of Jalisco and Secretary of Public Education during Gustavo Díaz Ordaz's presidency...
- 1972: Rodolfo UsigliRodolfo UsigliRodolfo Usigli was a Mexican playwright. He was called the "playwright of the Mexican Revolution."Usigli born to an Italian father and a Polish mother in Mexico City. He studied drama at Yale from 1935-1936 on a Rockefeller scholarship, later becoming a professor and diplomat...
- 1971: Daniel Cosío VillegasDaniel Cosío VillegasDaniel Cosío Villegas was a prominent Mexican economist, essayist, historian and diplomat.Cosío Villegas was born in Mexico City. After studying one year in engineering and two years of philosophy, he received a B.A. in Law from the National University and took several courses in economics at...
- 1970: Juan RulfoJuan RulfoJuan Rulfo was a Mexican author and photographer. One of Latin America's most esteemed authors, Rulfo's reputation rests on two slim books, the novel Pedro Páramo , and El Llano en llamas...
- 1969: Silvio Zavala Vallado
- 1968: José GorostizaJosé Gorostiza' was a Mexican poet, educator, and diplomat. For his achievements in the poetic arts, he was made a member of the .-Biography: was born in the riverine city of , then known as , to and . His younger brother would also become an important artist. He moved to Mexico City to attend the National...
- 1967: Salvador Novo LópezSalvador NovoSalvador Novo López was a Mexican writer, poet, playwright, translator, television presenter, entrepreneur, and the official chronicler of Mexico City, his birthplace and home. As a noted intellectual, he influenced popular perceptions of politics, media, the arts, and Mexican society in general...
- 1966: Jaime Torres BodetJaime Torres BodetJaime Torres Bodet was a prominent Mexican politician and writer who served in the executive cabinet of three Presidents of Mexico....
- 1965: Ángel María Garibay
- 1964: Carlos Pellicer CámaraCarlos PellicerCarlos Pellicer Cámara , born in Villahermosa, Tabasco, was part of the first wave of modernist Mexican poets and was heavily active in the promotion of Mexican art and literature...
- 1958: Martín Luis GuzmánMartín Luis GuzmánMartín Luis Guzmán Franco was a Mexican novelist and journalist.-Life:Guzmán was born in Chihuahua, Chihuahua. Along with Mariano Azuela, he is considered a pioneer of the revolutionary novel, a genre inspired by the experiences of the Mexican Revolution of 1910...
- 1949: Mariano Azuela González
- 1946: Alfonso ReyesAlfonso ReyesAlfonso Reyes Ochoa was a Mexican writer, philosopher and diplomat.-Early life:Alfonso Reyes parents were Bernardo Reyes and Aurelia Ochoa...
- 1935: Gregorio López y Fuentes
Physics, Mathematics, and Natural Sciences
Ciencias Físico-Matemáticas y Naturales- 1986: Adolfo Martínez Palomo
- 1985: Marcos Rojkind Matluk
- 1984: José Ruiz Herrera
- 1983: Octavio Augusto Novaro
- 1982: Bernardo Sepúlveda Gutiérrez
- 1981: Manuel Peimbert Sierra
- 1980: Guillermo Soberón Acevedo
- 1979: Pablo Rudomín Zevnovaty
- 1978: Rafael Méndez Martínez
- 1977: Jorge Cerbón Solórzano
- 1976:
- Ismael Herrera Revilla
- Julían Adem Chahín
- Samuel Gitler Hammer
- 1975:
- Arcadio Poveda Ricalde
- Guillermo Massieu Helguera
- Joaquín Gravioto Muñoz
- 1974:
- Emilio Rosenblueth Deutsch
- Ruy Pérez Tamayo
- 1973: Carlos Casas Campillo
- 1972:
- Antonio González Ochoa
- Isaac Costero Tudanca
- Luis Sánchez Medal
- 1971: Jesús Romo Armería
- 1970: Carlos Graef Fernández
- 1969:
- Fernando de Alba Andrade
- Ignacio BernalIgnacio BernalIgnacio Bernal 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 archeological projects at Teotihuacan. In 1965 he excavated Dainzú...
- 1968: Salvador Zubirán Anchondo
- 1967: José Adem Chaín
- 1966: Arturo Rosenblueth Stearns
- 1964: Ignacio González Guzmán
- 1963: Guillermo Haro Barraza
- 1961: Ignacio Chávez SánchezIgnacio Chávez SánchezDr. Ignacio Chávez Sánchez was a prominent Mexican physician.-Education and professional career:...
- 1959: Manuel Sandoval Vallarta
- 1957: Nabor Carrillo FloresNabor Carrillo FloresNabor Carrillo Flores is the third son of Mexican composer Julián Carrillo Trujillo. He did his first studies in Mexico City and he continued them in New York. On his return to Mexico, he made his studies of preparatory and those of civil engineering at the National University , where he graduated...
- 1948: Maximiliano Ruiz Castañeda
Technology and Design
Tecnología y Diseño- 2004: Héctor Mario Gómez Galvarriata
- 2003: Octavio Manero Brito
- 2002: Alexander BalankinAlexander BalankinAlexander Balankin is a Mexican scientist of Russian origin whose work in the field of and its engineering applications won him the UNESCO Science Prize in 2005....
- 2001: Filberto Vázquez Dávila
- 2000: Francisco Alfonso Larque Saavedra
- 1999: Jesús Gonzales Hernández
- 1997: Baltasar Mena IniestaBaltasar Mena IniestaBaltasar Mena Iniesta is a Spanish-born Mexican mechanical engineer specialized in Rheology. He has been laureated with Mexico's National Prize for Arts and Sciences , UNESCO Science Prize , and has chaired both the International Committee on Rheology and the Mexican Society of Rheology .Mena...
- 1997: Feliciano Sánchez Silencio
- 1996: Adolfo Guzmán Arenas
- 1996: María Luisa Ortega Delgado
- 1995: Alfredo Sánchez Marroquín
- 1994: Francisco Sánchez Sesma
- 1994: Juan Vázquez Lomberta
- 1993: José Ricardo Gómez Romero
- 1992: Lorenzo Martínez Gómez
- 1992: Gabriel Torres Villaseñor
- 1991: Octavio Paredes López
- 1991: Roberto Meli Piralla
- 1990: Daniel Reséndiz Núñez
- 1990: Juan Milton Garduño
- 1988: Mayra de la Torre
- 1987: Enrique Hong Chong
- 1986: Daniel Malacara Hernández
- 1985: José Luis Sánchez Bribiesca
- 1984: Jorge Suárez Díaz
- 1983: José Antonio Ruiz de la Herrán Villagómez
- 1982: Raúl J. Marsal Córdoba
- 1981: Luis Esteva Maraboto
- 1980: Marcos Mazari Menzer
- 1979: Juan Celada Salmón
- 1978: Enrique del Moral
- 1977: Francisco Rafael del Valle Canseco
- 1976:
- Reinaldo Pérez Rayón
- Wenceslao X. López Martín del Campo
Popular Arts and Traditions
Artes y Tradiciones Populares- 1998: Band Tlayacapan
- 1986:
- Grupo de danza regional ChichimecaChichimecaChichimeca was the name that the Nahua peoples of Mexico generically applied to a wide range of semi-nomadic peoples who inhabited the north of modern-day Mexico and southwestern United States, and carried the same sense as the European term "barbarian"...
de QuerétaroQuerétaroQuerétaro officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Querétaro de Arteaga is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 18 municipalities and its capital city is Santiago de Querétaro.... - Sociedad de artesanos indígenas Sna Jolobil
- Grupo de danza regional Chichimeca
- 1985:
- Banda Infantil del centro de Capacitación Musical de la región Mixe
- Grupo de teñidores mixtecos del caracol púrpura panza, Pinotepa NacionalPinotepa NacionalPinotepa Nacional is a city and seat of the municipality of the same name, in the Mexican state of Oaxaca....
- 1984: Artesanos de Santa Clara del CobreSanta Clara del CobreSanta Clara del Cobre is a town and municipality located in the center of the state of Michoacán, Mexico, 18 km from Pátzcuaro and 79 km from the state capital of Morelia...
Fine arts
Bellas Artes- 2005: Leonora CarringtonLeonora CarringtonLeonora Carrington OBE was a British-born Mexican artist, a surrealist painter and a novelist. She lived most of her life in Mexico City.-Early life:...
- 2004: Juan José Gurrola
- 2003:
- Gilberto Horacio Aceves NavarroGilberto Aceves NavarroGilberto Horacio Aceves Navarro is a Mexican painter.- Biography :Aceves studied painting at "La Esmeralda" under Enrique Assad, Ignacio Aguirre and Carlos Orozco Romero after 1950...
- J. Francisco Serrano CachoJ. Francisco Serrano CachoJosé Juan Francisco Alfonso Serrano Cacho is a Mexican architect.- Biography :Serrano was son of the architect Francisco J. Serrano. He studied at Universidad Iberoamericana until 1960. Afterwards he worked together with José Nava in the bureau of his father...
- Ludwik Margules CobenLudwik MargulesLudwik Margules Cobes was a Mexican theatre, opera and film director. Being an active member of the Mexican theatre circuit for more than fifty years, Margules taught acting and directing methods in several institutions, eventually founding his own acting academy, the Foro Teatro Contemporáneo...
- Gilberto Horacio Aceves Navarro
- 2002: Héctor Cobo García
- 2001:
- José Alejandro Dionisio Luna LedesmaAlejandro LunaJosé Alejandro Dionisio Luna Ledesma is a Mexican scenic designer and lighting technician.- Biography :Luna was born in Mexico City, where he passed his studies of architecture. He works at theater, opera and for TV and cinema productions...
- Alfredo Zalce Torres
- Federico Ibarra Groth
- José Alejandro Dionisio Luna Ledesma
- 2000: José Raúl Anguiano ValadezRaúl AnguianoJosé Raúl Anguiano Valadez was a Mexican critical realist painter, draftsman, muralist, and engraver, as well as a member of the second generation of the so-called "Mexican School of Painting" in Mexican art, along with Juan O'Gorman, Judith Gutierrez, Jorge González Camarena, José Chávez Morado,...
- 1999: Guillermo Arriaga Fernández
- 1998: Francisco ToledoFrancisco ToledoFrancisco Benjamín López Toledo is a Mexican graphic artist. He studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Oaxaca and the Centro Superior de Artes Aplicadas del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico, where he studied graphic arts with Guillermo Silva Santamaria...
- 1997: Arturo RipsteinArturo RipsteinArturo Ripstein y Rosen is a Mexican film director.-Life and career:Ripstein got his break into movies working as an uncredited assistant director for Luis Buñuel. In 1965, he directed his first feature, Tiempo de Morir...
- 1996: Luis NishizawaLuis NishizawaLuis Nishizawa Flores is a Mexican artist. His father, Kenji Nishizawa is Japanese with origins from Nagano prefecture and his mother, María de Jesús Flores is Mexican....
- 1995: Federico Silva
- 1994: Héctor Mendoza Franco
- 1993: Carlos Jiménez MabarakCarlos Jiménez MabarakCarlos Jiménez Mabarak Was a Mexican composer, one of the most prolific Mexican composers of the 20th century....
- 1992:
- Amalia Hernández NavarroAmalia HernándezAmalia Hernández Navarro was a Mexican ballet choreographer and founder of the world-renowned Ballet Folklorico de Mexico....
- José Jesús Francisco Zúñiga ChavarríaFrancisco ZúñigathumbJosé Jesús Francisco Zúñiga Chavarría was a Costa Rican and Mexican artist, known both for his painting and his sculpture...
- Manuel de Elías Mondragón
- Amalia Hernández Navarro
- 1991:
- Mario Lavista Camacho
- Ricardo Legorreta Vilchis
- Vicente Rojo Almazán
- 1990: Olga CostaOlga CostaOlga Costa,was a woman that worked in a mens club originally named the amazing fox , was a Mexican painter of Russian descent....
- 1989: Ignacio Díaz Morales
- 1988: Manuel Felguérez Aspe
- 1987: Juan SorianoJuan SorianoJuan Soriano was a Mexican painter and sculptor.Soriano, son of Rafael Rodríguez Soriano and Amalia Montoya Navarro, was born in Guadalajara and displayed his first painting at age 14...
- 1986: Mario PaniMario PaniMario Pani Darqui was a Mexican architect and urbanist, one of the most active under the rule of president Miguel Alemán Valdés...
- 1985: Alberto Beltrán García
- 1984: Pedro CoronelPedro CoronelPedro Coronel Arroyo was a Mexican abstract painter, sculptor, draughtsman, and engraver.-Biography:...
- 1983: Manuel EnríquezManuel EnríquezManuel Enríquez was a Mexican composer and violinist....
- 1982:
- Abraham ZabludovskyAbraham Zabludovsky (architect)Abraham Zabludovsky was a Mexican architect. He was the brother of the well-known journalist Jacobo Zabludovsky....
- Teodoro González de LeónTeodoro González de LeónTeodoro González de León is a Mexican architect.- Biography :Gonzales de León studied at the Escuela Nacional de Arquitectura of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México from 1942 to 1947. Thanks to a scholarship by the French government, he worked in France for 18 months with Le Corbusier,...
- Abraham Zabludovsky
- 1981: José Luis CuevasJose Luis CuevasJosé Luis Cuevas is a modernist painter and sculptor from Mexico. Born in 1934, Cuevas derived most of his training outside of the academies. He is considered to be one of the artists from the 1950s in the Rupture Generation that was departing from the politicized and stylized mural school of...
- 1979: Guillermina BravoGuillermina BravoGuillermina Bravo is a Mexican ballet dancer, choreographer and ballet director. She was co-founder of the academy of Mexican dance in 1947, and established together with Josefina Lavalle the national ballet company in Mexico City in 1948, which has been located in Querétaro since 1991, where she...
- 1978: Gunther Gerszo Wendland
- 1977: Luis BuñuelLuis BuñuelLuis Buñuel Portolés was a Spanish-born filmmaker — later a naturalized citizen of Mexico — who worked in Spain, Mexico, France and the US..-Early years:...
- 1976:
- Luis BarragánLuis BarragánLuis Barragán Morfin was a Mexican architect. He was self-trained.-Early life:Educated as an engineer, he graduated from the Escuela Libre de Ingenieros in Guadalajara in 1923 and was self-trained as an architect.After graduation, he travelled through Spain, France , and...
- Julio Prieto
- Rodolfo HalffterRodolfo HalffterRodolfo Halffter Escriche was a Spanish composer.-Life:Born in Madrid, Spain into a family of musicians, he was the brother of Ernesto Halffter and uncle of Cristóbal Halffter, also composers. His father Ernesto Halffter Hein came from Königsberg, Germany...
- Luis Barragán
- 1975: Manuel Álvarez BravoManuel Álvarez BravoManuel Álvarez Bravo was a Mexican photographer.Álvarez Bravo was born in Mexico City on February 4, 1902. He came from a family of artists and writers, and met several other prominent artists who encouraged his work when he was young, including Tina Modotti and Diego Rivera...
- 1974:
- Edmundo O'GormanEdmundo O'GormanEdmundo O'Gorman O'Gorman was an Irish-Mexican writer, historian and philosopher....
- José Chávez MoradoJosé Chávez MoradoJosé Chávez Morado was a Mexican painter and sculptor.- Biography :Morado was born in Silao, near the city of Guanajuato, where Diego Rivera was born, and like Rivera he is a well known and highly regarded painter and sculptor who became most famous for the murals he painted in Mexico in the first...
- Edmundo O'Gorman
- 1973: Pedro Ramírez VázquezPedro Ramírez VázquezPedro Ramírez Vázquez is a late twentieth century Mexican architect. He was born in Mexico City. He was persuaded to study architecture by writer and poet Carlos Pellicer....
- 1972: Juan O'GormanJuan O'GormanJuan O'Gorman was a Mexican painter and architect.-Biography:O'Gorman was born in Coyoacán, then a village to the south of Mexico City and now a borough of the Federal District, to an Irish father, Cecil Crawford O'Gorman and a Mexican mother...
- 1971: Gabriel Figueroa Mateos
- 1970: Jorge González CamarenaJorge González CamarenaJorge González Camarena was a prominent Mexican painter, muralist and sculptor who received the Mexican National Prize for Arts and Sciences...
- 1969: Francisco Díaz de LeónFrancisco Díaz de LeónFrancisco Díaz de León was a Mexican engraver.- Biography :...
- 1968: José Villagrán GarcíaJosé Villagrán GarcíaJosé Villagrán García was a Mexican architect. His is known for having developed several theories of modern architecture, and designing the master plan for the National Autonomous University of Mexico...
- 1967:
- Luis Ortiz MonasterioLuis Ortiz MonasterioLuis Ortiz Monasterio was a Mexican sculptor. He was founding member of the Academia de Artes in 1968.- Biography :...
- Roberto MontenegroRoberto MontenegroRoberto Montenegro Nervo was a Mexican painter, illustrator, and stage designer....
- Luis Ortiz Monasterio
- 1966: David Alfaro SiqueirosDavid Alfaro SiqueirosJosé David Alfaro Siqueiros was a social realist painter, known for his large murals in fresco that helped establish the Mexican Mural Renaissance, together with works by Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, and also a member of the Mexican Communist Party who participated in an...
- 1964:
- Rufino TamayoRufino TamayoRufino Tamayo was a Mexican painter of Zapotec heritage, born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico. Tamayo was active in the mid-20th century in Mexico and New York, painting figurative abstraction with surrealist influences....
- Blas GalindoBlas Galindo-Biography:Born in San Gabriel, Jalisco, Galindo studied intermittently from 1931 to 1944 at the National Conservatory in Mexico City, under Carlos Chávez, Candelario Huizar, José Rolón, and Manuel Rodríguez Vizcarra...
- Rufino Tamayo
- 1958:
- Carlos ChávezCarlos ChávezCarlos Antonio de Padua Chávez y Ramírez was a Mexican composer, conductor, music theorist, educator, journalist, and founder and director of the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra. He was influenced by native Mexican cultures. Of his six Symphonies, his Symphony No...
- Gerardo Murillo ("Dr. Atl")
- Carlos Chávez
- 1951: Candelario Huízar
- 1950: Diego RiveraDiego RiveraDiego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez was a prominent Mexican painter born in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, an active communist, and husband of Frida Kahlo . His large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Movement in...
- 1947: Manuel M. Ponce
- 1945: José Clemente OrozcoJosé Clemente OrozcoJosé Clemente Orozco was a Mexican social realist painter, who specialized in bold murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance together with murals by Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and others...
History, Social Sciences, and Philosophy
Historia, Ciencias Sociales y Filosofía- 1997: Rodolfo StavenhagenRodolfo StavenhagenRodolfo Stavenhagen is a Mexican sociologist. He is a professor-researcher at El Colegio de México and former Deputy Director General of UNESCO. In 2001 he was appointed by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights the first United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of the human...
- 1986: Luis Villoro Toranzo
- 1985: Alfonso Noriega Cantú
- 1984: Pablo González Casanova
- 1983: Luis González y González
- 1982: Héctor Fix Zamudio
- 1981: Miguel León Portilla
- 1980: Leopoldo Zea AguilarLeopoldo Zea AguilarLeopoldo Zea was a Mexican philosopher.One of the integral Latin Americanism thinkers in history, Zea became famous thanks to his master's thesis, El Positivismo en México , with which he applied and studied positivism in the context of his country and the world during the...
- 1979: Gonzalo Aguirre BeltránGonzalo Aguirre BeltránGonzalo Aguirre Beltrán was a Mexican anthropologist known for his studies of marginal populations. His work has focused on Afro-Mexican populations...
- 1978: Mario de la CuevaMario de la CuevaMario de la Cueva y de la Rosa was a Mexican jurist and rector of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in 1940–1942.De la Cueva studied law at the Escuela Nacional de Jurisprudencia of the UNAM, as well as at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin...
- 1977: Víctor L. Urquidi BinghamVíctor UrquidiVíctor Luis Urquidi Bingham was a Mexican civil servant, economist, and academic.- Biography:...
- 1976: Eduardo García MáynezEduardo García MáynezEduardo García Máynez was a Mexican jurist....
- 1962: Jesús Silva HerzogJesús Silva HerzogJesús Silva Herzog Flores is a Mexican economist and politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party...
- 1960: Alfonso CasoAlfonso CasoAlfonso Caso y Andrade was an archaeologist who made important contributions to pre-Columbian studies in his native Mexico. Caso believed that the systematic study of ancient Mexican civilizations was an important way to understand Mexican cultural roots...