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Real de a 8, also known as "Spanish American peso", "Spanish dollar" or "piece of eight", considered to be the first world currency, which also gave the origin of the dollar or peso sign ($), was a Spanish/Mexican invention, it was first used in New Spain before being widely used in the whole Americas, parts of Europe and the Far East.
A Mexican research company, Syntex was founded and began producing oral contraceptives. The Mexican government under President Luis Echeverría created a state-run company, Proquivemex, to control and regulate the industry. [57] Rodolfo Neri Vela is the first and only Mexican, and the second Latin-American to have traveled to space.
A field-sequential color television system similar to his Tricolor system was used in NASA's Voyager mission in 1979, to take pictures and video of Jupiter. [2]There was a Mexican science research and technology group created La Funck Guillermo González Camarena or The Guillermo González Camarena Foundation in 1995 that was beneficial to creative and talented inventors in Mexico.
Albert Vinicio Báez (/ ˈ b aɪ. ɛ z / BY-ez, [citation needed] Spanish: [biˈnisjo ˈβaes]; November 15, 1912 – March 20, 2007) was a Mexican-American physicist and the father of singers Joan Baez and Mimi Fariña, [1] and an uncle of John C. Baez.
Another famous Mexican-American Vietnam War activist is Joan Baez, but she conducted her protests through music.Credited with resurrecting the dying art of folk music along with her contemporary ...
Miguel Alcubierre Moya (born March 28, 1964) is a Mexican theoretical physicist. [4] Alcubierre is known for the proposed Alcubierre drive , a speculative warp drive by which a spacecraft could achieve faster-than-light travel.
Hinojosa, a Mexican-American journalist, is the anchor and executive producer of Latino USA, a public radio show devoted to Latino issues. She helped launch Latino USA in 1992 and has also worked ...
Mario José Molina-Pasquel Henríquez [a] (19 March 1943 – 7 October 2020) [7] was a Mexican physical chemist. He played a pivotal role in the discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole, and was a co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his role in discovering the threat to the Earth's ozone layer from chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) gases.