Leopoldo García-Colín Scherer (27 November 1930, in Mexico City – 8 October 2012, in Mexico City) was a Mexican scientist specialized in Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics who received the National Prize for Arts and Sciences in 1988.
[4] He obtained a Chemistry degree at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in 1953.
Later, he participated in research at the Centro Nuclear de Salazar, a Nuclear center in Mexico; assistant director of Basic Investigation of Processes at Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo from 1967 to 1974, professor at Instituto de Investigaciones de Materiales in UNAM during the period from 1984 to 1988.
At the end of his career he had a tenure position at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana at Iztapalapa.
He was member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores with the highest level, III, since 1988.