Germán Martinez Hidalgo (December 23, 1929 – April 25, 2009 Puebla, Mexico) was a scientist, physicist, mathematician, chemist, and astronomer who popularized science by writing weekly articles in the Mexican newspaper, El Sol de Puebla.
Hundreds of his articles can be found online at the web page of El Sol de Puebla.
Mr. Hidalgo was the director of the Escuela Normal Superior del Estado de Puebla.
in which this Planetarium was one of the best in America due to the high humanist and scientific profile Hidalgo had, Organized several scientific events cherished by European Embassies and other Scientific Institutions around the World, as well as was congratulated by several scientifics like Aghii Bohr, son of Niels Bohr Created several free-attendance events dedicated to the greatest minds in History since ancient Greece to modern times, with conferences once per week at the Planetarium free of charge, introducing this vital knowledge to every one who may be interested, As a writer he published in 1992 a theory of the two-system concept referring to Charon and Pluto, for that studies was invited to join as a full member of the prestigious New York Science Academy, was invited to the International Aerospace Congress held in Moscow Russia 2001, in 2005 traveled to Europe in where he was received with honors at the Planetariums of Paris and Moscow.
The English philosopher and write Allan Woods expressed his condolences to his family and friends, "...with a deep sense of sadness and pain, I knew my good friend and comrade, German M. Hidalgo an outstanding scientific has gone...I had the privilege to meet him, and become his friend...He (GMH) was the best type of intellectual, a wise man, and erudite with a vast knowledge on culture, sciences and philosophy and at the same time humble, his loss, is a loss for the entire world..."[4]