A Brief Biography Of Luis Miramontes

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Luis Miramontes was a famous Mexican chemist who invented birth control. He was born in March 16, 1925 at Tepic, Nayarit. His full name is Luis E. Miramontes Cardenas. At the National Autonomous University of Mexico, he received his first degree in chemical engineering. He was a researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in the Institute of Chemistry. He also was the faculty of chemistry there. Not only that, but he was the director and professor at the Universidad Iberoamericana in the School of Chemistry. Luis Miramontes was a deputy Director of Research at the Mexican Institute of Petroleum. He was also a member of many different scientific societies. Some of those societies are, the American Chemical Society (Emeritus),

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