Biography

Ponciano Aguilar Frías, Mexican mining engineer and topographer (Guanajuato 14 November 1853 – Guanajuato 10 April 1935)

Devised a new method for identifying minerals by means of electric arc (pyroelectric analysis) (1915-1930)

Honored in mineral species aguilarite Genth 1891  

José Guadalupe Aguilera Serrano, Mexican geologist and paleontologist (Mapimi, Durango State 05 February 1857 – Ciudad de Mexico 13 March 1941)

Colaborated to Mexican Geological Chart, presented in Universal Exposition of Paris with great success (1889)

First to describe the formation of kaolin in basaltic rocks (1907)

Alberto Barajas y Celis, Mexican mathematician (Ciudad de Mexico 17 July 1913 – Ciudad de Mexico 03 July 2004)

With R. Vazquez. Teorema sobre una conjetura de Birkhoff. Bol. Soc. Mat. Mexicana (1946)

He was invited to give lectures at Harvard University due to his work below

Birkhoff’s theory of gravitation and Einstein’s theory for weak fields. Proceed. Nat. Acad. Sciences 30:54, 1944

Gregorio Barroeta Corbalán, Mexican physician and naturalist (San Luis Potosi 1831 – 25 October 1906)

Collected plant specimens that gave rise to new species described by botanists

MEMBERSHIP

Member, Smithsonian Institute

Honorary Member, Geographical Society of Quebec

HONORS

Barroetea A.Gray 1880 (Asteraceae)

Gustavo Calderón Riveroll, Mexican geophysicist and geographer (San Pablo Apetatitlán, Tlaxcala State 11 February 1942 – Manzanillo, Colina State 19 April 2016)

Obtained the first measurements of motions of Earth tectonic plaques (1991) that earned him NASA Group Achievement Award

Ovidio Farga Torrent, Mexican

Invented a phone viewfinder (telefonovisor) in 1970 and the videocine (a forerunner of video recorder)

José María Roque de Jesus Macouzet Malo, Mexican pediatric surgeon (Morelia, Michoacán State 16 August 1870 – 24 November 1921)

From French descent

Reported the first arterial embolectomy with catheter

Consideraciones acerca de dos casos de gangrena producida por embolias. Mem. II Congr. Med. Panam. Mexico II:31, 1896 

Estefania Salas de Broner, Mexican antiquarian (died Xalapa 06 October 1907)

Married to a German

Collected a great amount of Misanteca archaeological artifacts described by Strebel from Cempoala, Cerro Montoso and Misantla (1883-4)

With her sister Joaquina Salas de Morales collected new species of mollusks from Veracruz and Misantla (1875-6)

Both are honored in genus Salasiella Strebel 1878 (Mollusca)

Narciso Souza Novelo, Mexican physician, poet, botanist and ethnographer (Merida, Yucatán Province 16 October 1881 – Merida, Yucatán Province 15 February 1952)

Described plant species Agave purpurea (1941)

Bred and obtained new and beautiful varieties of orchids from which was regarded as a world expert 

José Norberto Aureliano Urrutia Sandoval, Mexican surgeon (Xochimilco, Districto Federal 06 June 1872 – San Antonio, Texas, USA 14 August 1975)

First to report the extirpation of cirsoid aneurysm from the palm region of the hand in thew world (1909)

Performed surgery for separating conjoined twins united by abdome and liver with world acclaim (1917)