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 Medicine, UNAM School also has annexes at several hospitals in Mexico City's metropolitan area, most notably an annex at the General Hospital of Mexico, where the Department of Experimental Medicine is located. It has one main library and several others used mostly for postgraduate studies. It holds the Graduate program in medicine (MD) called "Titulo de Medico Cirujano" (Physician-Surgeon Diploma). In Mexico, the School of Medicine UNAM is generally regarded as one of the most important, if not the most important of the country; it has several links with hospitals and communities, and its students are usually in communities for their social