Luis Felipe Rodriguez Jorge is a pioneer of radio astronomy in Mexico. Knowledge of the processes that characterize star formation owes a lot to his research group. She has more than 400 scientific articles in specialized journals that have received more than 20,000 citations. He was awarded the National Prize for Sciences and Arts in 1993, the Bruno Rossi Prize in 1996, and the TWAS Prize in 1997. He entered El Colegio Nacional on February 24, 2000.
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Luis Felipe Rodriguez is a pioneer of radio astronomy in Mexico.
Rodríguez Jorge, along with astrophysicist Susana Lizano, coordinate and participate in the Cosmos News Series, a group of conferences aimed at introducing topics related to physics and astronomy to the general public. In different sessions, they invited eminent specialists who share their current knowledge and research.
Ph.D. in Astronomy from Harvard University has a keen interest in popularizing science. He comments that when he was studying for a degree in physics at the Faculty of Science, in the 1960s, he met Dr. Luis Estrada, who was a wonderful publisher. A group of young men had formed around him. He invited them to write articles for one of the magazines that were available at the time, reviewed them and gave them advice and recommendations. “I really liked it. First of all, in a country like ours, in Mexico, publication is very important, and scientific knowledge should not only remain between us, of course, there should be contact between us and scientists, but we should try to reach the public “. Since then his interest in publishing has grown and articles he has published have appeared in Physics, Nature, Science and Development, CONACyT magazine and newspapers. “I’ve kept doing this until now,” says the scientist.
While at university, Rodriguez Jorge learned, in addition to research and teaching, about publishing: “How to make a speech, how to make it attractive, and how to modify it for the audience; giving a scholarly talk to your colleagues is not the same with a group of children or to the general public. In all this I worked And I learned a lot from several people and I keep using it. So far I give many conferences, I try to find catchy titles, topics that have some importance at that moment for some reason, and I try to put them together in a way that has a narrative in the presentation. To have someone who wanted to be something , and how that led him to different paths until he achieved it. This helps people to understand things”, says El Colegio Nacional member.
Folk books are very important, but they are also literary books, to be able to convey knowledge in a better way, says the scientist, who claims to have read other famous authors, but the most useful thing for him is to read literature. This allows one to search for metaphors, to look for tricks that make communication more interesting and also remains engraved in people’s minds. So it is very important that you read. I read a lot of science fiction, I also read a lot of popular science, in fact, I still read, books that were written with great taste and with great interest. There one learns the tricks and ways of presenting things, and all this helps a lot in presenting the scientific idea but covered with human experience so that it is more attractive and more understandable to the audience.”
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University members Luis Felipe Rodriguez Jorge and Susana Lizano coordinate the following session of the Cosmos News Session, which will take place today, Monday, February 21, 6:00 pm, and will be devoted to the Webb Space Telescope and its importance to the Mexican astronomical community. Dr. Aida Wofford, Research Associate at the UNAM Astronomical Institute, Ensenada Campus, Baja California. We invite Chronicle readers to follow this conference at 6:00 PM, through El Colegio Nacional’s digital channels.
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