Nabor Carrillo Flores

Nabor Carrillo Flores (born February 23, 1911 in Mexico City , † February 19, 1967 ibid) was a Mexican nuclear physicist and rector of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).

biography

Carrillo was born the third son of the composer Julián Carrillo Trujillo . He graduated from the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria , then studied at the Escuela Nacional de Ingeniería , the later Faculty of Engineering at UNAM, and also in New York . He was a Guggenheim scholar and received a Ph.D. -Title from Harvard University and in 1941 from there also the Master of Science title ( scientiæ magister ).

He taught and researched at UNAM and was the Mexican representative in the atomic bomb tests on Bikini Atoll in 1946 . Carrillo was technical advisor to the Mexican delegation of the UN Atomic Energy Commission on the use of nuclear energy in the Pacific and was executive advisor to the national atomic energy commission. From February 14, 1957 to February 13, 1961, he was Rector of UNAM for two terms.

Carrillo supported the construction of the Mexican nuclear research center, which was put into operation after his death. For his scientific work he received several honorary doctorates from national and international universities and was awarded the National Prize for Science and the Order of the French Legion of Honor in 1957. The lunar crater Carrillo is named after him.

personal data
SURNAME	Carrillo Flores, Nabor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Mexican nuclear physicist and rector of UNAM
DATE OF BIRTH	February 23, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mexico city
DATE OF DEATH	19th February 1967
Place of death	Mexico city