Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo
Peruvian engineer, physicist and mathematician
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo was born on 10 January 1887 in the country estate of Vista Bella, province of Aija, Peru, department of Áncash. He was an engineer, physicist and mathematician. Early years He studied at Colegio Nacional de la Libertad and later Colegio Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe , where he met Peruvian writer Abraham Valdelomar. In 1905 he was admitted into the Mathematical Sciences faculty of the San Marcos National University in Lima. At the end of the 1906 academic year , he received a distinction from President José Pardo, receiving a gold medal. After this, he traveled to France to get his degree in Electrical Engineering in the University of Grenoble. After that he took further studies at Columbia University. In 1912 he returned to Peru, where he worked as a professor at San Marcos University. After this he traveled around Peru, searching for suitable places to construct hydro-electric central power stations. His greatest contribution to science was the prediction of the neutron in 1924 not so far from Rutherford's predictions.
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