IN HONOR OF MANUEL SANDOVAL VALLARTA
On the 125th anniversary of his birth, for his contributions to the physics of cosmic rays and as a pioneer of Mexican and Latin American physics.
Manuel Sandoval Vallarta
- Father of the nuclear science in Mexico.
- Pioneer of Mexican and Latin American physics.
- Pupil of the famous physicists Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Erwin Schrödinger and Max von Laue.
- One of the founders members of “El Colegio Nacional” (Mexican National College) in 1943.
- Developer of the Lemaître-Vallarta theory, which is very important for cosmic rays and for which he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1935.
- Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur (France, 1952) and National Prize for Exact Sciences (Mexico, 1961).
- Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur (France, 1952) and National Prize for Exact Sciences (Mexico, 1961).
- B.S. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1921; doctorate from MIT in 1924.
- Mentor of Richard Feynman (Nobel Prize winner in Physics 1965) and co-author of Feynman's first scientific publication.
- Classmate of Robert J. Oppenheimer in 1940.
Participants
- Dr. Julio G. Mendoza Álvarez (President of the Sociedad Mexicana de Física)
- Dr. Luis Felipe Rodríguez Jorge (Member of El Colegio Nacional of México)
- Dr. Ibrahim D. Torres Aguilar (Mexican leader of the Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory or SWGO); representative of Dra. Maria M. González Sánchez and Dr. Andrés Sandoval Espinosa, spokesperson and leader of the CONAHCyT National Laboratory High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC) respectively
- Dr. José Francisco Valdés Galicia (Coordinator of the University Space programme, UNAM)
- Lic. José Guillermo Vallarta Plata (Grandnephew of Manuel Sandoval Vallarta)
Coordinators
- Dr. Eduardo de la Fuente Acosta (Universidad de Guadalajara and Convener of the local organizing committee)
- Dra. Karen S. Caballero Mora (Mexican representative of Pierre Auger Collaboration and Co-convener of the local organizing committee)
References
- 1.- F. del Río Haza (2024), Destellos del cosmos. Ensayo biográfico sobre Manuel Sandoval Vallarta, El Colegio Nacional (libroscolnal), https://libroscolnal.com/products/destellos-del-cosmos-ensayo-biografico-sobre-manuel-sandoval-vallarta
- 2.- M. de la Paz Ramos Lara (1999), La Física en México. Homenaje a José Antonio Alzate y Manuel Sandoval Vallarta, Boletín de la Sociedad Mexicana de Física, 13, 157-165
- 3.- Hockey, T. (2014). Sandoval Vallarta, Manuel. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_9151
- 4.- Lemaître, G., Vallarta, M. S. (1933). On Compton's Latitude Effect of Cosmic Radiation, Physical Review, 43:2, pp. 87–91.
- 5.- G. Mateos, and A. Minor (2013), La red internacional de rayos cósmicos, Manuel Sandoval Vallarta, History of the Philosophy of Physics Revista Mexicana de Física E, 59, 148-155 (2013) 148–155
- 6.- Ramos-Lara, M.d.l., Carreón-Vázquez, G., Acatitla-Romero, E. et al. (2022), Mapping Manuel Sandoval Vallarta (1899–1977) Scientific Contribution. Foundations of Science, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-022-09872-y
