page_title: National Autonomous University of Mexico
section_title: Noted faculty
hierarchical_section_title: National Autonomous University of Mexico / Noted faculty
caption_attribution_description: Español: Entrada a Universum.
context_page_description: The National Autonomous University of Mexico is a public research university in Mexico. It ranks highly in world rankings based on the university's extensive research and innovation. It is the largest university in Latin America and has one of the biggest campuses in the world. UNAM's main campus in Mexico City, known as Ciudad Universitaria, is a UNESCO World Heritage site that was designed by some of Mexico's best-known architects of the 20th century. Murals in the main campus were painted by some of the most recognized artists in Mexican history, such as Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros. In 2016, it had an acceptance rate of only 8%. UNAM generates a number of strong research publications and patents in diverse areas, such as robotics, computer science, mathematics, physics, human-computer interaction, history, philosophy, among others. All Mexican Nobel laureates are either alumni or faculty of UNAM.
  UNAM was founded, in its modern form, on 22 September 1910 by Justo Sierra as a liberal alternative to its predecessor, the Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico, the first to be founded in North America. UNAM obtained its autonomy from the government in 1929.
context_section_description: Carlos Slim, businessman and the current fourth-richest person in the world
  Miguel Alcubierre, theoretical physicist
  Max Cetto, architect
  Mónica Clapp, mathematician
  Adolfo Gilly, historian
  Alejandro Corichi, astrophysicist
  Enrique Leff, political ecologist and economist
  Isabel Hubard Escalera, mathematician
  Erich Fromm, philosopher and psychoanalyst
  Florian Luca, mathematician
  Teodoro González de León, architect
  Javier Corral Jurado, politician
  Jorge González Torres, politician
  José Gaos, philosopher
  José Miguel Insulza, a Chilean politician, secretary of the Organization of American States
  Paul Kirchhoff, anthropologist and ethnohistorian
  Larry Laudan, philosopher
  Juan Carlos Laguna, musician (guitar)
  Miguel León-Portilla, historian and Nahuatl language researcher
  Rodolfo Neri Vela, astronaut
  Edmundo O'Gorman, historian and writer
  Kiyoto Ota, sculptor
  Arturo Rosenblueth, physiologist
  Graciela Salicrup (1935–1982), architect, archaeologist and mathematician
  Juan José Sánchez Sosa, psychologist
  Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez, a Spanish-born philosopher
  Manuel Sandoval Vallarta, physicist and cosmic ray researcher
  Sara Sefchovich, writer
  Jesus Savage, robotics researcher and founder of the Mexican Institute of Robotics
  Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor, lawyer
caption: Science museum, UNIVERSUM
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