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He was a Mexican scientist, researcher, engineer and doctor of science and inventor. He invented a system to transmit color television in 1940, the trichromatic sequential field system (known as STSC). He also invented later, in the 1960s, a simpler system to generate color, the simplified two-color system. González Camarena launched color television in Mexico years before the implementation of the NTSC standard. He launched the Telesecundaria system in Mexico.
He was born on February 17, 1917, his parents were Arturo Jorge González (1874-1923) and Sara Camarena Navarro (1883-1952); his maternal grandfather was the Lic. Jesús Leandro Camarena (1832-1889), distinguished lawyer of the Jalisco Forum and Constitutional Governor of the State of Jalisco (1875-1876 and 1877-1879).3 He was the youngest of seven brothers, among them the painter, muralist, and sculptor, Jorge González Camarena.
At the age of 13, in 1930 he entered the Industrial Technical Institute, direct predecessor of CECyT 1 Gonzalo Vázquez Vela, to study radio-telegraphy; right here he expresses his interest in television.
He began to work in the radio station of the Secretariat of Public Education. Beginning to work in the Secretariat of Government. In 1934 he gave life to his first television camera. He enrolled in the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineers and at the age of 22, in 1939 he graduated from the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of the National Polytechnic Institute (ESIME, IPN); he obtained his first radio license two years later.
He was also an amateur astronomer; he built his own telescopes and was a member of the Astronomical Society of Mexico. His interest in observing the sky and considering the possibility of traveling through space led him to do numerous tests, together with Humberto Ramírez Villareal, of experimental rockets, to the point of developing flying saucers that he called "Electrodisco" and "Dossiers".
On August 31, 1946, González Camarena sent the first color transmission from his laboratory in the offices of the "Mexican League of Radio Experiments", in Carrer de Llucana no. 1, in Mexico City. The video signal was transmitted in the frequency of 115 MHz and in the audio band of 40 meters.
Two years later it was up to him to draw up the legal provisions that regulated the functioning and operation of national broadcasting stations, which included television, frequency modulated, short wave, long wave and facsimile radio. In 1948 founded the Gon-*Cam Laboratories, where they began to work, spontaneously, with other radio-experimenters. He founded in 1952 the Channel 5 of the City of Mexico.
González Camarena's work spread to the field of medicine when black and white television, then color, began to be used as a teaching medium for the subject
During the 1960s and 1970s, NASA's Apollo and Voyager missions sent television equipment based on González Camarena's patent to receive images from the moon and the planets of the solar system. , although the United States already had the NTSC the size occupied by the electronics of these teams, by volume and weight, it was impossible to implement it in the small contingent of ships so it was used as an instrument of observation its Trichromatic Sequential Field System patented in Mexico and other countries.
