De la física de carácter ingenieril a la creación de la primera profesión de física en México

Abstract

During the XVIII and XIX centuries, the development of the engineering and physics took parallel trajectories in Mexico. However, it was until the first decades of the XX century when a small group of intellectuals and engineers struggled, for more than two decades, to get a space where physics could become independent from engineering and the mainstream pragmatic approach that had characterized it for more than a century. The endeavor of these engineers paid off in the decade of 30's, when the first profession of physics and the first physics institute were created.