Arnaldus de Villa Nova also called Arnau de Vilanova in Catalan, his language, Arnaldus Villanovanus, Arnaud de Ville-Neuve or Arnaldo de Villanueva, c. 1240–1311 was a physician and a religious reformer. He was also thought to be an alchemist (his house in Montpellier, France, had a carved door showing a roaring lion and dragon that
Antonio de Ulloa y de la Torre-Giralt, FRS, FRSA, KOS 12 January 1716 – 3 July 1795 was a Spanish naval officer, scientist, and administrator. At the age of nineteen, he joined the French Geodesic Mission to what is now the country of Ecuador. That mission took more than eight years to complete its work,
Josep Trueta i Raspall Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, 27 October 1897 – Barcelona, 19 January 1977 was a Catalan surgeon and researcher. As a Catalan nationalist, he fled into exile to England after the Spanish Civil War, during which he had been the chief of trauma services for the main hospital in Barcelona. In 1939 a booklet of his, first published
Eduardo Torroja y Miret, 27 August 1899 – 15 June 1961 was a Spanish structural engineer and a pioneer in the design of concrete shell structures. Contents 1Education 2Career 3Personal characteristics 4Socioeconomic and political environment 5References 6Sources 7Further reading 8External links Education Torroja was born in Madrid where he studied civil engineering. Career Ingeniero
Leonardo Torres y Quevedo Spanish: ; 28 December 1852 – 18 December 1936 was a Spanish civil engineer and mathematician of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With his Telekine, Torres-Quevedo created wireless remote-control operation principles. He was also a famous speaker of Esperanto. Contents 1Biography 2Work 2.1Analytical machines 2.2Aerostatics 2.3Chess automaton 2.4Cableways 2.5Radio control: the Telekino 2.6Analogue calculating
Esteban Terrades i Illa born Barcelona, 15 September 1883; died Madrid, 9 May 1950 also known as Esteve Terradas, was a Spanish mathematician, scientist and engineer. He researched and taught widely in the fields of mathematics and the physical sciences, working not only in his native Catalonia, but also in the rest of Spain and in South America. He was also active as a consultant in the Spanish aeronautics, electric
María Dolores Soria Mayor 1948 – 5 June 2004, also known as Loli Soria, was a Spanish paleontologist. Contents 1Biography 2Tributes 2.1Dedicated taxa 3References Biography María Dolores Soria Mayor earned a degree in Biological Sciences in 1971, and until 1973 she was a professor of Natural Sciences at the Corazón de María school in Ciudad Lineal.
Michael Servetus /sərˈviːtəs/; Spanish: Miguel Serveto as real name; French: Michel Servet; also known as Miguel Servet, Miguel de Villanueva, Michel Servet, Revés, or Michel de Villeneuve; 29 September 1509 or 1511 – 27 October 1553 was a Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer, and Renaissance humanist. He was the first European to correctly describe the function of pulmonary circulation, as discussed in Christianismi Restitutio (1553). He was a polymath versed
Margarita Salas Falgueras, 1st Marchioness of Canero 30 November 1938 – 7 November 2019 was a Spanish scientist, medical researcher, and author in the fields of biochemistry and molecular genetics. Salas’ discovery of the bacterial virus Φ29 DNA polymerase was recognized by the Spanish National Research Council as the highest-grossing patent in Spain. Her cumulative work, as
Enrique Rojas Montes Granada, 21 de febrero de 1947 es un médico español catedrático de Psiquiatría de la Universidad de Extremadura1 en excedencia. Sus trabajos de investigación se centran en dos temas: las depresiones y la ansiedad. Sus ensayos han abordado la sexualidad, las crisis conyugales y la voluntad.2 Índice 1Biografía 2Obra 3Premios y reconocimientos 4Obras 5Referencias