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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 Barcelona, ​​​​her city. The act, packed to the brim, was attended by relatives, friends, former students, colleagues, and members of the Reial Acadèmia de Ciències i Arts de Barcelona, ​​​​the…

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).

We want to welcome you to the renewed website of the Gallery of Catalan Scientisits, a new website updated with the latest technologies for correct viewing on different devices. It also incorporates a series of improvements collected thanks to the contributions that you have sent us.

On friday March 4, at the Univers Astronomical Center of the Montsec Astronomical Park the new exhibition “Telescopi Assumpció Català” will be inaugurated. The Assumpció Català telescope will be the first telescope in Spain bearing the name of a woman. Maria Assumpció Català i Poch was the first woman astronomer numerary professor in a spanish university. She worked as a professor at the University of Barcelona from 1953 to 1990 and in 2004 was named…