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Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo was born on 10 January 1887 in the country estate of Vista Bella, province ofAija, Peru, department ofÁncash. He was an engineer, physicist and mathematician.[1][2]
He studied at Colegio Nacional de la Libertad (Huaraz) and later theCollege of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Lima), where he met Peruvian writerAbraham Valdelomar. In 1905 he was admitted into the Mathematical Sciences faculty of theSan Marcos National University inLima. At the end of the 1906 academic year (24 December), he received a distinction fromPresident José Pardo, receiving a gold medal. After this, he traveled to France to get his degree in Electrical Engineering in theUniversity of Grenoble. After that he took further studies atColumbia University. In 1912 he returned to Peru, where he worked as a professor at San Marcos University. After this he traveled around Peru, searching for suitable places to construct hydro-electric central power stations.[2][3]
In the Third Pan-American Scientific Congress held in Lima, Antúnez de Mayolo presented the work "Hipótesis sobre la constitución de la materia," proposing the existence of a "neutral element" in the atom.[1][2][4] Eight years later, EnglishmanJames Chadwick confirmed this theory.[2] In 1934, he proposed the existence of thepositron in his article "Los tres elementos constitutivos de la materia."[2] In 1936,David Anderson received the Nobel prize for its discovery.[2]
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