Education
He studied at Colegio Nacional de la Libertad (Huaraz) and later Colegio Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe (Lima).
He studied at Colegio Nacional de la Libertad (Huaraz) and later Colegio Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe (Lima).
He was an engineer, physicist and mathematician. At the latter is where he met famed Peruvian writer Abraham Valdelomar. In 1905 he was admitted into the Mathematical Sciences faculty of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima.
He went on to the Institute Electrotécnico of the University of Grenoble in France.
In the Third Pan-American Scientific Congress held in Lima, Antúnez de Mayolo presented "Hypothesis about the Constitution of Matter," proposing the existence of a "neutral element" in the atom. Eight years later, Englishman James Chadwick confirmed this theory.
