On February 27th, 1990, the Presidency of the Republic, instituted this award in recognition of the scientific and technological work carried out by researchers and technologists in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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I gladly offer you a warm welcome to the new Web site of Mexico’s Science Consulting Council of the Presidency of the Republic (CCC). It is a window of information on our counselors, their various activities and important issues of science and technology.

He studied physics and earned a doctorate at the Faculty of Sciences of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He engaged in postdoctoral work for two years at Princeton University. At the beginning of his career, Dr. Flores Valdés devoted himself to work on theoretical nuclear physics, during the 1970’s he delved into issues related with statistical theory of nuclear reactions and the theory of random matrices. He is also recognized for his colossal efforts to disseminate science.

Jaime G. de la Garza Salazar

Jaime G. de la Garza Salazar was born in the City of Monterrey on December 12th, 1934. He is a surgeon from the Universidad Autónoma of Nuevo León. Did work in internal medicine and medical oncology at the South Texas Medical School of San Antonio, Texas and the Mayo Clinic of Rochester, Minnesota. Currently, he is a clinical researcher of the Instituto Nacional de Cancerología of the Ministry of Health, and permanent “F” researcher of the Researchers Evaluating Committee of the Institutes Coordination Office of the Ministry of Health, and National Researcher, Level II, of the National System of Researchers.