• Submitted by: manso
• International
• 04 / 05 / 2011

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Por Yllen Riquelme.Havana, Apr 3 (Prensa Latina) Scientists from 15 countries are corresponding members of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba (ACC), a degree given to those who do not live in Cuba and contribute to the development of its specialties.

Sergio Jorge Pastrana, secretary of foreign relations of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba, said to AIN that since the year 2000 that institution began to grant those degrees and the scientists who have received them are from Argentina, Barbados, Colombia, Guatemala, Jamaica, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and Trinidad and Tobago.

So far, a total of 25 experts from other nations have been incorporated into that Cuban institution. In 2010 the degree was granted to German Dr. Klaus Thielmann, founder of Clinical Biochemistry and creator of the first postgraduate course in that matter in Cuba

The list is completed with Guatemalan chemistry-biologist Maria del Carmen Tamayo, Dominican psychiatrist Nelson Moreno Ceballos, president of the Caribbean Scientific Community, Colombian Jose A. Lozano, secretary of the Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences of his country, and US national Michael Clegg, professor of plant genetics at the University of California.

Regarding Honor Members, the degrees were granted to Cubans Guillermo Garcia Montero, director of the National Aquarium, Ernesto de la Torre Montejo, a pediatrician, and Gisela Alonso Dominguez, chairwoman of an environment agency.

The degree of Academicians of Merit was granted to Dr. Rodrigo Josa Alvarez Cambras, head of Frank Pais International Orthopedic and Scientific Complex, and Jorge C. Gonzalez Perez, who conducted the works on the discovery in 1997 of the remains of Ernesto Che Guevara and his fellow guerrillas in Bolivia.