Angel Fierros Palacios was born in March 1933 in Pochutla, Oaxaca, MA(c)xico. He studied Physics at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de MA(c)xico (UNAM), where he also obtained a Master degree and Ph. D. in Science. For many years he was Professor at the UNAM and a researcher at the Instituto Mexicano del PetrA3leo and at the Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares. He also worked at different areas of the public administration such as the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, the Secre-tarA-a de EnergA-a, as well as the ComisiA3n Federal de Electricidad (CFE). He is the author of the...