Emergence and Development of experimental particle physics in Mexico

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Thanks to two interviews to Drs. Miguel Ángel Pérez Angón and Matías Moreno (Sep/2016), I can present to you how the idea of forming researchers in experimental particle physics in Mexico started.There is a connection with the spread of elementary particle physics in Europe: in 1983, CERN (European Centre for Nuclear Research) supports the inclusion of Spain as a member state, as it is the case three years later with Portugal. This boosts the development, in both countries, of high energy physics. In parallel, Nobel Prize winner (1988) and second Fermilab (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) director (1978 to 1989), Dr. Leon Max Lederman, decides to promote the growth of experimental high energy physics in Latin America.