Marcos Moshinsky

Marcos Moshinsky Borodiansky was a Mexican physicist of UkrainianJewish origin whose work in the field of elementary particles won him the Prince of Asturias Prize for Scientific and Technical Investigation in 1988 and the UNESCO Science Prize in 1997.

He was born in 1921 into a Jewish family in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR. At the age of three, he emigrated as a refugee to Mexico, where he became a naturalized citizen in 1942. He received a bachelors degree in physics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and a doctorate in the same discipline at Princeton University under Nobel Laureate Eugene Paul Wigner.

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