René Raúl Drucker Colín (15 May 1937 – 17 September 2017) was a Mexican scientist, researcher and journalist in the fields of

physiology Physiology (; ) is the science, scientific study of function (biology), functions and mechanism (biology), mechanisms in a life, living system. As a branches of science, subdiscipline of biology, physiology focuses on how organisms, organ syst ...

and

neuroscience Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions, and its disorders. It is a multidisciplinary science that combines physiology, anatomy, molecular biology, ...

. From 1985 through 1990, he was the Director of Neuroscience at the

National Autonomous University of Mexico The National Autonomous University of Mexico (, UNAM) is a public university, public research university in Mexico. It has several campuses in Mexico City, and many others in various locations across Mexico, as well as a presence in nine countri ...

. He was also the President of the

Mexican Academy of Sciences The Mexican Academy of Sciences ''(Academia Mexicana de Ciencias)'' is a non-profit organization comprising over 1800 distinguished Mexico, Mexican scientists, attached to various institutions in the country, as well as a number of eminent forei ...

from 2000 through 2008. Drucker Colín died on 17 September 2017 in Mexico City at the age of 80. Drucker Colín is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of lizard, ''

Sceloporus druckercolini ''Sceloporus druckercolini'', also known commonly as the graceful mountain tree lizard and ''lagartija elegante arborícola de montaña'' in Mexican Spanish, is a species of lizard in the family Phrynosomatidae. The species is endemic to Mexico. ...

''. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Drucker-Colin", pp. 75-76).

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