Pedro Francisco Duque Duque, OF, OMSE Madrid, 14 March 1963 is a Spanish astronaut and aeronautics engineer who serves as Minister of Science of the Government of Spain. He was also Member of the Congress of Deputies from May 2019 until February 2020. Contents 1Biography 1.1Early life and education 1.2Astronaut 1.3University and Business 1.4Return
Maria del Carmen Domínguez Álvarez, also Karmenka, born 1969 is a Spanish glaciologist, polar explorer and mathematician. She is a co-founder of the Glackma Project which since 2001 has networked the measurement of glacier discharge in the polar regions. She has undertaken over 60 polar expeditions in Antarctica, Patagonia, Iceland, Svalbard and Siberia. Her work is considered to have contributed significantly to the
Josep Comas i Solà Catalan pronunciation: ; Barcelona 17 December 1868 – 2 December 1937 was a Spanish astronomer, of Catalan origin, discoverer of minor planets, comets, and double stars. He wrote his first astronomy notes at 10, and was only fifteen when he published an article in a French specialist magazine. He observed planets including Mars and Saturn,
Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain born 11 October 1965, known professionally as Ignacio Cirac, is a Spanish physicist. He is one of the pioneers of the field of quantum computing and quantum information theory. He is the recipient of the 2006 Prince of Asturias Award in technical and scientific research. Contents 1Career 2Other activities 2.1Corporate
Juan de la Cierva y Codorníu, 1st Count of la Cierva Spanish pronunciation: ; 21 September 1895 in Murcia, Spain – 9 December 1936 in Croydon, United Kingdom was a Spanish civil engineer, pilot and aeronautical engineer. His most famous accomplishment was the invention in 1920 of the first helicopter called Autogiro, a single-rotor type of aircraft that came
Pedro Carlos Cavadas Rodríguez born November 1965, in Valencia is a Spanish surgeon known for directing world-pioneering interventions. Education[edit] Cavadas graduated as a doctor from the University of Valencia in 1989 with honours, and served as an intern at Hospital La Fe de Valencia, where he specialised in plastic surgery. Notable Surgeries[edit] In December 2006, he performed the first double hand transplant
Santiago Calatrava Valls born 28 July 1951 is a Spanish Swiss architect, structural engineer, sculptor and painter, particularly known for his bridges supported by single leaning pylons, and his railway stations, stadiums, and museums, whose sculptural forms often resemble living organisms. His best-known works include the Olympic Sports Complex of Athens, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Turning Torso tower in Malmö,
Nicolás Cabrera 1913–1989, was a Spanish physicist who did important work on the theories of crystal growth (specifically the Burton–Cabrera–Frank theory) and the oxidisation of metals. He was the son of another famous Spanish physicist Blas Cabrera and the father of American Physicist Blas Cabrera Navarro. He spent many years in exile during the Francoist State. He was Professor of the Department of physics in the University of Virginia, where he worked from
Ángel Cabrera (19 February 1879 – 8 July 1960) was a Spanish zoologist. The standard author abbreviation A.Cabrera is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. Cabrera was born in Madrid and studied at the city’s university. He worked the National Museum of Natural Sciences from 1902, going on several collecting expeditions to Morocco. In 1907, he proposed that the Iberian wolf was
xJosé Ignacio Barraquer Moner 24 January 1916 – 13 February 1998 was a Spanish ophthalmologist and inventor born in Barcelona who did most of his life’s work in Bogotá, Colombia. His original pioneering investigations on corneal transplants and correction of corneal refraction led him to be designated as “Father of modern Refractive Surgery”. His ophthalmological surgical techniques and inventions are