René_Drucker_Colín

René Drucker Colín

René Drucker Colín

Mexican scientist, investigator and journalist

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Drucker and the second or maternal family name is Colín.

René Raúl Drucker Colín (15 May 1937 – 17 September 2017) was a Mexican scientist, researcher and journalist in the fields of physiology and neuroscience. From 1985 through 1990, he was the Director of Neuroscience at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He was also the President of the Mexican Academy of Sciences from 2000 through 2008.

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Drucker Colín died on 17 September 2017 in Mexico City at the age of 80.[1]

Drucker Colín is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of lizard, Sceloporus druckercolini.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    Muere René Drucker Colín, divulgador de la ciencia (in Spanish). Archived 2017-09-18 at the Wayback Machine
  2. [2]
    Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Drucker-Colin", pp. 75-76).

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