Rene Drucker Colin

Rene Raul Drucker Colin
Rene Raul Drucker Colin
	Drucker Colin in May 2009
Secretary of Science, Technology and Innovation of Mexico City
	In office ; January 29, 2013 ? September 17, 2017
Governor	Miguel Angel Mancera ( Head of Government of Mexico City )
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	David Garcia Junco Machado
Personal details
Born	May 15, 1937 ; Mexico City , Mexico
Died	September 17, 2017 (aged 80)
Alma mater	National Autonomous University of Mexico ( BS ) ; Northern Illinois University ( MS ) ; University of Saskatchewan ( PhD )
Awards	National Prize for Arts and Sciences (1987) ; Kalinga Prize (2011)
	Scientific career
Fields	Physiology , neuroscience
Institutions	National Autonomous University of Mexico

Rene Raul Drucker Colin (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.

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

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

References [ edit ]

^ Muere Rene Drucker Colin, divulgador de la ciencia (in Spanish) . Archived 2017-09-18 at the Wayback Machine
^ 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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