School of Chemistry, UNAM to Mexico City). In February 1917, the School was incorporated to the National University of Mexico (currently UNAM). In 1919, the School incorporated the degree of pharmacy to its curricula, which was until then provided by the National School of Medicine. Soon, the School established the Laboratory of Analysis and the Laboratory of Preparative Organic and Inorganic Chemistry. In a similar manner, the School installed an Ether production plant and created new buildings for fermentative, sugar and starch processing, tannery chemicals and pharmaceutical industries. The first course on Organic Chemistry Applied to Pharmacy was taught initially by Adolfo P. Castañares,
School of Chemistry, UNAM and textile manufacturing and some pharmaceutical industries. However, the harsh national and international context, derived from the mexican revolution movement and the World War I affected the availability of highly skilled personnel. Therefore, in January 1913, Juan Salvador Agraz presented an initiative to the mexican president Francisco I. Madero to create the School of Chemistry. On September 23, 1916, the mexican president Venustiano Carranza promulgated by government-decree the foundation of the National School of Industrial Chemistry (Escuela Nacional de Química Industrial, and later Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Químicas or National School of Chemical Sciences) in the town of Tacuba (north-west