Manuel Peimbert wife, fellow UNAM faculty member Silvia Torres, were the first non-US scientists to win the Hans Bethe Prize. Peimbert was elected an international member of the American Philosophical Society in 2002. Peimbert is the great-grandson of writer Justo Sierra. 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
School of Political and Social Sciences, UNAM School of Political and Social Sciences, UNAM The Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales (FCPyS, "Faculty of Political and Social Sciences") is a faculty within Mexico's Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), responsible for directing research and teaching programs in the fields of political science and social science. It was first established in 1951 as the Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales (ENCPyS, "National School of Political and Social Sciences"), before its conversion to full faculty status from 26 January 1968. FCPyS offers five academic degrees at the "Licenciatura" (undergraduate) level, in public administration, Communication studies, political science, international