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Agell Torrents, Joan
Sanaüja, Segarra 1809 - Barcelona 1968
Physicist.

He was Professor of theoretical mechanics (1835) and of experimental physics (1841) at the Institut de Barcelona. He was also Professor of chemistry (1845) at the Faculty of Science at the Universitat de Barcelona.

Alcobé Noguer, Santiago
Barcelona 1903 - Barcelona 1997
Anthropologist.

He was Professor of anthropology at the University of Barcelona since 1941 and rector in the same university from 1963 to 1965. He was the director of the Centro de Genética Animal y Humana del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas.

Aleu Riera, Dolors
Barcelona 1857 - Barcelona 1913
Doctor.

In 1872, Catalan classrooms began to admit women with a strong desire to study medicine despite their difficulties in having access to education.  Aleu i Riera was a pioneer and became the first woman to graduate in medicine and surgery in Spain and also the first to receive a PhD.

Almera Comas, Jaume
Vilassar de Mar 1845 - Barcelona 1919
Geologist.

He got his Ph.D. degree in science at the University of Barcelona and in theology at the Universitat de València. He was a teacher of geology and natural history in the Barcelona. He was a disciple of Landerer, with who collaborate in a study about el Maestrat in 1876. In 1874 he founded the Museo de Geognosia y Paleontología in Barcelona.

Alsina Bofill, Josep
Palafrugell, Baix Empordà 1904 - Palafrugell, Baix Empordà 1993
Doctor.

Doctor, nephrologist. He was a member of the science section of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans from 1961. In 1927 he got his degree in medicine in Barcelona and from 1934 to 1939 he was a helper teacher of pathology at the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona.

Arbós Tor, Jaume
Sant Hipòlit de Voltregà, Osona 1824 - Barcelona 1882
Chemist.

In 1857 he set up a gas factory in Mataró (Barcelona) and five years after he patented the first inhalation gas called gas Arbós, which is a mixture of water gas and hydrocarbon.

Artigas Teixidor, Primitiu
Torroella de Montgrí 1846 - Madrid 1910
Forest Engineer.

Artigas i Teixidor finished his studies in 1870 and started his work in various different forested areas and in the Forest Engineering School, where he was appointed professor. Later in life he was appointed to the Forest Advisory Board, the highest governing body of forestry. Artigas i Teixidor is considered a pioneer in the development of treaties on Mediterranean silviculture, and specifically his treaty on cork and the cork industry which has been used by countless students and other people interested in the topic.

Balcells Rocamora, Enric
Barcelona 1922 - Jaca 2007
Zoologist.

Dr. Balcells was born in Barcelona on 31 March 1922 into a noble family. He began his high school studies at the Maragall Institute of Barcelona and completed them on 1939 at the Sant Isidoro Institute of Seville, the city where his family had moved to given the political convulsions of the period due to the Spanish Civil War.

Ballester Boix, Manuel
Barcelona 1919 - Barcelona 2005
Chemist.

One of the most famous Catalan and Spanish scientists. He devoted his life to research in organic chemistry. His main contribution to science was the development of perchloro-organic chemistry, which he began in 1954 with the discovery of a potent chlorination agent. In 1964 he discovered the Inert Free Radicals, a class of trivalent carbon species of exceptional stability, which opened the door to a new era in organic chemistry.

Ballester Nolla, Antoni
Mont-roig del Camp 1920 - Barcelona 2017
Chemist, Oceanographer.

Born in Mont-Roig del Camp in 1920, he moved to Barcelona in the 1930s when his father, a state school teacher, was posted to the capital. A man committed to freedom, Ballester volunteered at the age of 17 to defend the Spanish Republic against fascist aggression. He suffered the shameful refugee camps in the south of France until he was able to return to Barcelona. At the end of the Spanish civil war, he obtained a doctorate in Chemistry and Biological Sciences with an excellent cum laude mark for his doctoral thesis.