Luis de la Peña, a Mexican physicist, died on May 17, 2026, at the age of 95.
Born in Mexico City in 1931, he studied mechanical-electrical engineering at ESIME of the National Polytechnic Institute and began his professional career designing audio systems. He taught at ESIME from 1954 and joined the National Autonomous University of Mexico, or UNAM, in 1958, where he was a researcher at the Institute of Physics and a professor in the Faculty of Sciences.
He completed his PhD in 1964 at Moscow State University under Arseny Sokolov. De la Peña was known for his work in stochastic electrodynamics and received Mexico’s National Prize for Arts and Sciences in 2002.
Luis de la Peña, 95, Mexican physicist.