Manuel Peimbert Manuel Peimbert Manuel Peimbert Sierra (born June 9, 1941) is a Mexican astronomer and a faculty member at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). After earning an undergraduate physics degree from UNAM, Peimbert completed a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley before returning to UNAM as a faculty member. He works at the UNAM Institute of Astronomy. Peimbert was elected a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences in 1987. He was inducted into the Colegio Nacional in Mexico in 1993. He received the Hans Bethe Prize from the American Physical Society in 2012. Peimbert and his
School of Architecture, UNAM studios or "workshops" which offer all the mandatory courses. These studios are physically located in eight two story buildings (except for two located in the main building). These workshops originally were conceived to perform long-standing projects and focus on experimentation of different architectural conceptions, depending on the staff that the studio had, the profile of the students was formed. The workshops are mostly named after Mexican architects or architects that had contributed to Mexican architecture: The School is located in Ciudad Universitaria in Mexico City, near the School of Engineering, UNAM. It is spread in two separate building complexes; the