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The origin of the Sociedad Mexicana de Ciencia
de Superficies y Vacío (MVS): Mexican society
of surfaces and vacuum is the result of an AVS
meeting in Detroit USA back in 1980. The idea
came from José Luis Morán Lopez, nowadays
President of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.
According to Juan Luis Peña, this happened while
having dinner in a Detroit restaurant. José Luis
told him about the necessity of having a society
gathering the Mexican Scientists interested in
Surface Science. In fact, these two persons were
the first (JLML) and the second (JLPC) presidents
of the MVS. It is important to note here that the
American Vacuum society (AVS) and the MVS
have been in close contact since that time and
the AVS has sent senior scientists to give lectures
or workshops almost continuously since the
mid-eighties. A first meeting was organised by
scientists from the Instituto Mexicano del Petroleo
(the Mexican Petroleum Institute) (IMP) and from
the Instituto de Física–UNAM Institute of Physics
of the National Autonoumous University (IFUNAM)
in Mexico City in 1980. This workshop was the
first initiative to promote the study of the, until
then non-existent, surface science in Mexico. It
was organised primarily for scientists returning
to Mexico after the culmination of their graduate
studies abroad. At that time there was no
involvement of industry in the development of this
activity.
In 1981, an intended second meeting was
cancelled and the IFUNAM group organised
a workshop of Surfaces in Oaxtepec State of
Morelos, with about 35 scientists present. In this
meeting, the necessity for the creation of a society
for surface studies in Mexico was discussed
and, as a consequence, a provisional committee
was appointed. This committee established the
statutes and undertook the legal work required
to formalize the new society. This happened in
a notary in San Juan de Letrán – a downtown
Mexico City famous street – with the participation
of: Enrique Sironi, Miguel José Yacamán, Ciro
Falcony, Olga Leticia Perez Ramirez, Alicia Oliver
and Juan Luis Peña Chapa, among others.
In November of 1982, the MVS was a reality and
it organised the first Latin American Symposium
of Surfaces in Puebla city. In 1983, October 5,
the legal status was conferred.
The origin of the Sociedad Mexicana de Ciencia de Superficies y Vacío (MVS): Mexican society
of surfaces and vacuum is the result of an AVS meeting in Detroit USA back in 1980. The idea
came from José Luis Morán Lopez, nowadays President of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.
According to Juan Luis Peña, this happened while having dinner in a Detroit restaurant.
José Luis told him about the necessity of having a society gathering the Mexican Scientists
interested in Surface Science. In fact, these two persons were the first (JLML) and the second
(JLPC) presidents of the MVS. It is important to note here that the American Vacuum society
(AVS) and the MVS have been in close contact since that time and the AVS has sent senior
scientists to give lectures or workshops almost continuously since the mid-eighties. A first
meeting was organised by scientists from the Instituto Mexicano del Petroleo (the Mexican
Petroleum Institute) (IMP) and from the Instituto de Física–UNAM Institute of Physics of the
National Autonoumous University (IFUNAM) in Mexico City in 1980. This workshop was the
first initiative to promote the study of the, until then non-existent, surface science in Mexico.
It was organised primarily for scientists returning to Mexico after the culmination of their
graduate studies abroad. At that time there was no involvement of industry in the development
of this activity.
THE MEXICAN VACUUM SOCIETY (MVS)
Sociedad Mexicana de Ciencia de Superficies y Vacío
Miguel Meléndez-Lira and Emmanuel Haro Poniatowski (2017)