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Antonio Peña Díaz

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Nationality
  
Mexican

Fields
  
Biochemistry

Name
  
Antonio Diaz


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Institutions
  
Institute for Cellular Physiology, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)

Alma mater
  
National Autonomous University of Mexico

Notable awards
  
Carlos J. Finlay Prize for Microbiology (UNESCO, 2003).

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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) and the Mexican Society of Biochemistry (1981–83).

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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

  • Bioquímica ("Biochemistry", 1979)
  • Las membranas de las células ("The Membranes of the Cell", 1986)
  • La energía y la vida: bioenergética ("Energy and Life: Bioenergetics", with Georges Dreyfus Cortés, 1990)
  • Cómo funciona una célula: fisiología celular ("How Does a Cell Work: Cellular Physiology", 1995)
  • ¿Qué es el metabolismo? ("What is Metabolism?", 2001)

    • References

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