Universidad Iberoamericana
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The Ibero-American University, also referred to by its acronym UIA but commonly known as Ibero or La Ibero, is a private, Catholic, Mexican higher education institution, sponsored by the Mexican province of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit). In 2009, the UIA received the SEP-ANUIES Prize as the best private university in Mexico. The Ibero's flagship campus is located in the Santa Fe district of Mexico City.
The university's main square
View of the Campus from the Francisco Xavier Clavijero library.
Biblioteca Francisco Xavier Clavigero
View of the corporate Santa Fe from the university.
Luis E. Miramontes
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Luis Ernesto Miramontes Cárdenas was a Mexican chemist known as co-inventor and the first to synthesize an oral contraceptive, progestin norethisterone.
Luis E. Miramontes c. 1953
George Rosenkranz (right) and Luis E. Miramontes (left), 2001 at the UNAM
Patent of the first oral contraceptive, elected to the USA Inventors Hall of Fame.
Luis E. Miramontes (right) with Nobel Laureate Mario Molina, ca. 1995