He carried out his bachelor's and doctoral studies in Physics at the School of Sciences, UNAM from 1947 to 1952, at its original campus (Palacio de Minería). His theses were the following: Dynamical description of a potential dispersion (1953) and Causal description and dispersion relations (1960) [translated from spanish: Descripción dinámica de la dispersión por un potencial and Descripción causal y relaciones de dispersión ], both were directed by Professor Marcos Moshinsky.