SCIENTISTS
Folch i Pi, Jordi
Barcelona 1911 - Boston, Massachusetts 1979. Folch was born in Barcelona, Spain. His father Rafel Folch was a lawyer and a Catalan poet, and his mother Maria Pi a teacher. As his mother liked and spoke French, Folch went to high school at the Lycée Français of Barcelona, from which he graduated in 1927. He then undertook Medicine studies and received an M.D. degree from the University of Barcelona Medical school in 1932.
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SCIENTISTS
Agell i Torrents, Joan
Sanaüja, Segarra 1809 - Barcelona 1968. Físic. In 1846 he got his Ph.D. degree in science and he was the director of the Escuela Industrial. In 1863 he was the rector at the Universitat de Barcelona. In 1845 showed to the Academia de Ciències i Arts de Barcelona, where he was a member, a telegraph that he invented and it was possible to send 40 clear letters each minute. He improved his telegraph in 1850. Besides the telegraph, he made some research in the electricity and thermology that were published in the academy Journal.
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