Colegio Nacional

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El Colegio Nacional
Motto Libertad por el saber (Liberty through knowledge)
Formation 15 May 1943
Purpose/focus Academic
Location Mexico City
Region served Mexico
Membership 40
Official languages Spanish
Website colegionacional.org.mx

The National College (El Colegio Nacional) is a Mexican honorary academy with a strictly limited membership created by presidential decree in 1943 in order to bring together the country's foremost artists and scientists, who are periodically invited to deliver lectures and seminars in their respective area of speciality. Membership is generally a lifelong commitment, although it could be forfeited under certain conditions. It should not be confused with El Colegio de México, a public institution of higher education and research.

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[edit] History

The College's foundation decree, signed by General Manuel Ávila Camacho, limited membership to twenty Mexican-born citizens, who were supposed to deliver their lectures and or seminars in its official premises at Mexico City. A subsequent amendment signed by President Luis Echeverría in 1971 increased the limit to forty and members were given the choice of delivering both their lectures or seminars in places other than the capital. Those aged 70 and over were released, at their discretion, from that obligation. Naturalized Mexicans could also been appointed, provided that at least ten years had passed since they acquired citizenship.

In 1995, President Ernesto Zedillo amended the rules so that naturalized Mexicans could be admitted to the College irrespective of the date on which they acquired citizenship.

[edit] List of members

The first date is the admission date to The National College; the second is the date of death or resignation/expulsion.

[edit] Founders

[edit] Members admitted in the 20th Century

[edit] Members admitted in the 21st Century

  • Luis Felipe Rodríguez Jorge (24 February 2000) radioastronomer, discoverer of double-sided radio jets from the galactic sources 1E1740.7-2942 and GRS 1758-258 and superluminal motion of radio knots in the galactic source GRS 1915+105. Winner of the 1996 Bruno Rossi Prize of the American Astronomical Society and the Mexican National Prize of Science.
  • Mario J. Molina (24 April 2003) co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for elucidating the threat to the Earth's ozone layer by chlorofluorocarbon gases (CFCs).
  • Enrique Krauze (27 April 2005) historian and cultural promoter, member of the board of Instituto Cervantes and the Mexican Academy of History.
  • Eusebio Juaristi (13 February 2006) researcher on Physical chemistry, winner of the 1998 National Prize of Arts and Sciences.
  • María Elena Medina-Mora Icaza (6 April 2006) researcher at the National Institute of Psychiatry, winner of the 1986 Gerardo Varela National Prize of Public Health.
  • Diego Valadés (13 February 2007) former Mexican General Attorney and researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
  • Luis Fernando Lara (5 March 2007) linguist, member of UNESCO's Permanent International Committee of Linguists.
  • Linda Rosa Manzanilla (9 April 2007) archaeologist specialized in domestic archeology in early urban developments, first Mexican woman ever admitted to the United States National Academy of Sciences.

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