Alfonso León de Garay Castro

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Alfonso León de Garay Castro (born January 31, 1920 in Puebla , † October 21, 2002 ) was a Mexican radiation biologist and ambassador .

Life

Alfonso León de Garay Castro studied surgical psychiatry at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla . On January 30, 1976 earned a Master of Science in Biology and in October 1978 a PhD in Biology from UNAM.

Alfonso de Garay was sponsored by Alfonso Ortiz Tirado, President of the Comisión Nacional de Energía Nuclear (Mexican Atomic Energy Commission) and Alexander Hollaender and was able to train in radiation biology at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1957 .

In 1958 he took part in an international course on techniques using radionuclides at the Centro de la Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana in Puerto Rico . From 1959 to 1960 he received a scholarship from the International Atomic Energy Agency . de Garay studied human genetics with Lionel Penrose in the Galton Laboratory of University College London . During this time he took courses on radiation protection , radionuclide techniques and autoradiography at Harwell facilities.

1960 founded the Department of Biology at the Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones nucleares (ININ). From 1960 to 1971 de Garay headed the radiobiological genetics program of the Mexican Atomic Energy Commission. From 1961 to 1962 de Garay received further training on radionuclides at the Weizmann Institute in Rechovot .

In 1963, de Garay founded the Institute for Genetics at the Medical School of the Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, which he headed until 1971. From 1965 to 1978 he gave lectures in population genetics, evolutionary genetics and radiation biology at UNAM. In 1966 de Garay took a genetics course at the American College of Physicians at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, USA.

In 1966, de Garay founded the Sociedad Mexicana de Genética and sat in front of it.

From 1968 to 1969 de Garay was a member of a group of experts which examined the effects of the proliferation of nuclear weapons for the United Nations and from 1971 to 1972 Dr. de Garay envoy in Vienna to the relevant bodies of the United Nations, such as the International Atomic Energy Agency and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization .

De Garay was also an advisor to the Mexican delegation at UNSCEAR and was appointed advisor to UN Secretary General U Thant .

For the 1968 Summer Olympics he published the book Genetic and Anthropological Studies of the Olympic Athlets by L. Levine.

From 1989 to 1991 he was Director of the Consejo de Salubridad General de la Presidencia de la República under Carlos Salinas de Gortari , from 1991 to 1992 de Garay participated in the Chernobyl Ecology Science Network .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.cbttequixquiac.edu.mx/pages/Ia3a.html
predecessor Office successor
Roberto Casellas Leal Mexican Ambassador to Tel Aviv
September 7, 1979 - May 30, 1983
Felipe Raúl Valdés Aguilar
  1. Embajadores de México