Greetings! The Biographical Gallery of Catalan Science and Technology was an initiative by Mercè Durfort (1943-2022) to highlight and publicize our scientific activity. Its contents -texts, images, links, audios or videos- will be updated periodically. We welcome your suggestions, queries and comments.
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Publication on Mercè Durfort i Coll
Last October 2025, a 78-page publication was presented about the promoter of this gallery, Mercè Durfort i Coll. It includes a presentation and a dozen texts by various authors. Edited by the Institut d’Estudis Catalans and the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona….
We say goodbye to Mercè Durfort, the promoter of the Galeria de Científics Catalans
On April 7, 2022, Mercè Durfort, the coordinator and promoter of the Galeria de Científics Catalans project, passed away. We were able to say goodbye to her in a very emotional act on April 9, at 11 a.m., at the Les Corts Funeral Home in…
150 years after the birth of Josep Maria Fuset y Tubià, naturalist, biologist and politician.
This 2021 celebrates the one hundred and fifty years of the birth of Josep Maria Fuset y Tubià, naturalist, biologist and politician (Sueca, la Ribera Baixa, 1871 – Barcelona, 1952) / Commemoration of the Department of the Presidència Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan or Spanish).
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