Fernando Altamirano, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Fernando Altamirano

Mexican physiologist

Date of Birth: 07-Jul-1848

Place of Birth: Aculco Municipality, México, Mexico

Date of Death: 07-Oct-1908

Profession: physician, physiologist, botanist

Nationality: Mexico

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Fernando Altamirano (Fernando Altamirano-Carbajal) (July 7, 1848 – October 7, 1908) was a Mexican physician, botanist and naturalist.
He was born in Aculco, studied in Querétaro, and died in Mexico City.
Altamirano was the founder and the director of the National Medical Institute of Mexico (Instituto Medico Nacional) from 1888 to 1908. He published more than 250 papers on pharmacology of Mexican plants and on physiology.
He was also interested in the industrial uses of Mexican plants. Altamirano collaborated with many internationally recognized botanist of the period, like Joseph Nelson Rose, Cyrus Pringle, George Russell Shaw and Edward Janczewski. At least one genus and nine species of plants and animals were named after him, many of them by Joseph Nelson Rose.