Anna Maria Cetto

Professor of theoretical physics at the Institute of Physics at UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico) since 1967. She received her Master's degree in biophysics from Harvard University and in physics from UNAM, and her PhD in physics from UNAM (1971). Cetto has served as dean of the Faculty of Sciences, editor of Revista Mexicana de Fisica, and was head of the project for the Museum of Light at UNAM. Currently playing a leading role in the development of LATINDEX, an electronic information system for Latin American scientific periodicals, she has published over 60 research articles and several monographs and textbooks in physics, is co-editor of Scientific Publications in Latin America (1995) and co-author of The Quantum Dice: An Introduction to Stochastic Electrodynamics (1996).