Becoming a Scientist in Mexico: The Challenge of Creating a Scientific Community in an Underdeveloped Country

by Jacqueline Fortes and Larissa Adler Lomnitz

Mexico is a developing society that only recently has begun to fully appreciate the importance of technology to economic success. It has had no clear vision of what the role of science is of how a scientific community can be formed. Understandably, in these circumstances, careers in science still do not have the status and recognition that such professions as medicine, engineering, and law have traditionally enjoyed. A program to train students in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271010185
• ISBN13: 9780271010182
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"