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Ana María Cetto
Ana María Cetto at IAEA Commemorative Ceremony on the Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 2010.
Born1946
CitizenshipMexican
Alma mater
Known for
SpouseLuis de la Peña[1]
Scientific career
Fields
Physics
Institutions

Ana Maria Cetto (born 1946, in Mexico City) is a Mexican physicist. She specialized in quantum mechanical theoretical physics, stochastic, electrodynamics, and biophysics of light; she is known for her contributions in the field of quantum mechanics and for her labor as a pacifist.[2] From 2003 to 2010 she was Deputy Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). She is also professor at the Faculty of Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), of which she was also director. Cetto is responsible for several scientific literature programs in Latin America and for several international programs on the promotion and participation of women in science.

Early life and education

She has a bachelor's degree in Physics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and graduate degrees from both, Harvard University and the National Autonomous University of Mexico. At Harvard University, she did a master's degree in Biophysics, then returning to Mexico, where she obtained her master's degree and PhD in Physics at UNAM. Becoming the first woman doctorate in Mexico.[3] She is a researcher at the Physics Institute of the UNAM, and professor at the Faculty of Sciences of the same university. She is also the daughter of the renowned Mexican architect Max Cetto.

National and international work

Ana Maria Cetto is an expert in theoretical physics, her specialty is Quantum Mechanics, Stochastic Electrodynamics and Biological Physics. She has been director of the Faculty of Sciences at UNAM (1978-1982),[4] as well as a professor, and researcher at the same institution. She was elected president of the executive committee 2021-2022 of the Mexican Physical Society.[5]

Ana Maria Cetto has been involved in the management of several international organizations. In 1995, she was council member of the Pugwash Conferences,[6] and in 2002 she was appointed as general secretary of the International Council for Science (ICSU), becoming the first Latin American appointed to the position.[2] Cetto has also been a founding vice president of the Third World Organization for Women in Science (TWOWS). From 2003 to 2010 she was Deputy Technical Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).[7] She has also been a member of the Governing Board of the United Nations University (UNU) and President of the Council of the International Foundation for Science (IFS).

Cetto's trajectory has been recognized in different occasions: she was awarded as "Woman of the Year" in Mexico in 2003,[8] and she has also received several other distinctions as a member of the Third World Academy of Science, the Mexican Academy of Science, the Mexican Physics Academy and the American Physical Society. She is also a member of the World Future Council.

Selected Work

Articles

  1. Ceccon E, Cetto AM. Capacity building for sustainable development: some Mexican perspectives. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND WORLD ECOLOGY 10 (4): 345-352 DEC 2003
  2. de la Pena L, Cetto AM. Planck's law as a consequence of the zeropoint radiation field REVISTA MEXICANA DE FÍSICA 48: 1-8 Suppl. 1 SEP 2002
  3. de la Pena L, Cetto AM. Quantum theory and linear stochastic electrodynamics. FOUNDATIONS OF PHYSICS 31 (12): 1703-1731 DEC 2001
  4. Vessuri H, Cetto AM. "Pertinence" and "impact". INTERCIENCIA 24 (3): 146-150 MAY-JUN 1999
  5. Cetto AM, Alonso-Gamboa O. Scientific periodicals in Latin America and the Caribbean: A global perspective. INTERCIENCIA 23 (2): 84-+ MAR-APR 1998
  6. de la Pena L, Cetto AM. Estimate of Planck's constant from an electromagnetic Mach principle. FOUNDATIONS OF PHYSICS LETTERS 10 (6): 591-598 DEC 1997

Books

  • Cetto, Ana María. La luz en la naturaleza y en el laboratorio. México, D.F.: Sep-Fondo de Cultura Económica : Conacyt, 1987. Serie La ciencia desde México; 32.
  • de la Peña, Luis; Cetto, Ana María (1996). van der Merwe, Alwyn (ed.). The Quantum Dice: An Introduction to Stochastic Electrodynamics. Dordrecht; Boston; London: Kluwer Academic Publishers. doi:10.1007/978-94-015-8723-5. ISBN 0-7923-3818-9. LCCN 95040168. OCLC 832537438.
  • de la Peña, Luis; Cetto, Ana María; Valdés-Hernández, Andrea (2016). The Emerging Quantum: The Physics Behind Quantum Mechanics. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-07893-9. ISBN 978-3-319-34792-9. OCLC 957533055.

References

Notes

  1. ^ Jammer 1974, p. 435.
  2. ^ a b "Ana María Cetto, reconocida científica por su labor pacifista | Fundación UNAM" (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 2022-04-11.
  3. ^ "Nuestra Gente - Dra Ana María Beatriz Cetto Kramis". www.fisica.unam.mx. Retrieved 2022-04-11.
  4. ^ Cavanillas, Belen (2016-03-16). "Entrevista a Doctora Ana María Cetto de UNAM". smartlighting (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-04-11.
  5. ^ "Cómite Ejecutivo". Sociedad Mexicana de Física. Retrieved 2022-04-11.
  6. ^ "Ciencia y género: entrevista a Ana María Cetto • LADO B". LADO B (in Spanish). 2016-06-14. Retrieved 2022-04-11.
  7. ^ Partnership (IAP), the InterAcademy. "Ana María Cetto". www.interacademies.org (in GB). Retrieved 2022-04-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  8. ^ ""Mujer del año", Ana María Cetto, Julieta Fierro y Linda Manzanilla". www.proceso.com.mx (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-04-11.

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