Antonio Peña Díaz Explained
Antonio Peña Díaz (born in 1936) is a Mexican biochemist who received the Carlos J. Finlay Prize for Microbiology (UNESCO, 2003) and chaired both the Mexican Academy of Sciences (1992–93)[3] and the Mexican Society of Biochemistry (1981–83).[4]
Peña Díaz holds a bachelor's degree in Medicine and both a master's and a doctorate degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He is currently an emeritus professor of the Institute for Cellular Physiology of the same university and has worked as a visiting scholar at the University of Rochester.
Selected works
- Spanish; Castilian: Bioquímica ("Biochemistry", 1979)
- Spanish; Castilian: Las membranas de las células ("The Membranes of the Cell", 1986)
- Spanish; Castilian: La energía y la vida: bioenergética ("Energy and Life: Bioenergetics", with Georges Dreyfus Cortés, 1990)[5]
- Spanish; Castilian: Cómo funciona una célula: fisiología celular ("How Does a Cell Work: Cellular Physiology", 1995)
- Spanish; Castilian: ¿Qué es el metabolismo? ("What is Metabolism?", 2001)
Notes and References
- News: Gaceta UNAM. 1995. (2928-2976). Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 8. Spanish. 2009-07-07.
- News: UNESCO Awards Science Prizes Ceremony. Erdelen. Walter. 2003-10-10. UNESCO. 2009-07-06.
- News: La mejor época de la ciencia en México. Torres Camargo. Lourdes. 2005-02-15. Academia Mexicana de Ciencias. Spanish. 2009-07-06.
- News: Distingue la UNESCO al científico universitario Antonio Peña con el premio "Carlos J. Finlay" . https://web.archive.org/web/20110722230525/http://www.dgi.unam.mx/boletin/bdboletin/2003_779www.html . dead . 2011-07-22 . 2003-10-16 . Boletín UNAM-DGCS-779 . Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México . Spanish . 2009-07-06 .
- Web site: La energía y la vida: bioenergética . Fondo de Cultura Económica . Spanish . 2009-07-07 .
