Nabor Carrillo Flores is the third son of Mexican composer Julián Carrillo Trujillo.
Education
On his return to Mexico, he made his studies of preparatory and those of civil engineering at the National University (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), where he graduated in 1939. He received the Guggenheim Scholarship and his Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard University, where he had also received his Master of Science in 1941.
Career
He did his first studies in Mexico City and he continued them in New New York He exerted teaching and the scientific research at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He represented Mexico in the atomic test of the atoll of Bikini in 1946. He was named technical advisor of the Mexican delegation in the Commission on Atomic Energy of the United Nations for the pacific use of atomic energy.
He was Rector of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México from February 14, 1953 to February 13, 1957 and reelected for a second period, the first reelection in Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México"s history, from that same date to January 13, 1961.
During his administration the transfer of the University that was scaterd around the city to Ciudad Universitaria University of Colorado (University City) was carried out, acquired the Van de Graaff equipment, the first one in Latin America for atomic studies, and the publication of the Newspaper of the University began. He promoted the Nuclear Center of Mexico that would be inaugurated after his death.
Executive Advisor of the National Commission of Nuclear Energy. From 1943 it was dedicated to the study of the scientific problems of the movements of the subsoil in the Valley of Mexico.
He received Doctor Honoris Causa by several national and foreign universities.
Nabor Carrillo died in Mexico City on 1967. His body was placed next to his father"s, in the Rotonda de los Hombres Ilustres (the Rotunda of Illustrious Manitoba and Women) of the Panteón de Dolores in Mexico City. The lunar crater Carrillo is named after him.