Palau i Albet, Jaume
Calafell 1935 - Vilassar de Dalt 2000

Biochemist.

Pascual i de Sans, Pere
Sevilla 1934 - Barcelona 2006

Physicist. Son of Josep Pascual i Vila and Montserrat de Sans i Coret. He was born in Sevilla in 1934, where his father was Professor of Organic Chemistry. In 1936 his family moved to Barcelona.

Pascual i Vila, Josep
Mataró 1895 - Barcelona 1979

Chemist. He was born in Mataró in 1895, son of Pere Pascual i Tayeda and Gertrudis Vila i Ribes. He died in Barcelona in 1979.

Pascual i Xufré, Griselda
Barcelona 1926 - Barcelona 2001

Mathematician. She spent her childhood in a stimulating intellectual environment. Her father, Julio Pascual, was a renowned painter, and two of her aunts were schoolteachers. Griselda Pascual studied at the private school, Women's Cultural Institution (Institució Cultural Femenina), under the guidance of her aunts, one of whom was headmaster.

Patxot i Jubert, Rafael
Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Baix Empordà 1872 - Ginebra 1964

Meteorologist, patron, writer, bibliophile. Man of great temperament, he devoted himself to the patronage of the Catalan culture, mainly during the Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera that culminated in the Institution Patxot.

Pau i Espanyol, Carles
Sogorb, Alt Palància 1857 - Sogorb, Alt Palància 1937

Botanist. He studied in Barcelona and Madrid. He got his Ph.D. degree in pharmacy. He was interested in the plant taxonomy and his work is showed in a plant book where he described a lot of new plant species from Spain, Morocco and Mauritania.

Pedro i Pons, Agustí
Barcelona 1898 - Barcelona 1971

Doctor, educator. Doctor. He studied with Francesc Esquerdo i Ferrer i Soldevicens, and in 1927 he became Professor of pathology and clinical medicine at the faculty of medicine in Barcelona, where he was also a teacher. He attended several congresses and was the president of different institutions: the Instituto Médico-farmacéutico, the Academia de Ciencias Médicas (1939-58) and the Academia de Medicina de Barcelona (1957-71).

Pi i Sunyer, August
Barcelona 1879 - Mèxic 1965

Doctor. In 1902, he founded the Societat Catalana de Biologia and later on he became Professor of physiology at the University of Barcelona, where he promoted the study of physiology. In the Laboratorio Bacteriológico Municipal and in the Institut de Fisiologia he worked as a teacher and researcher.

Planas i Mestres, Josep
Barcelona 1926 - Barcelona 1995

Biologist, animal physiologist.

Pòlit i Buxareu, Isidre
Alella 1880 - Barcelona 1958

Astronomer, physicist, mathematician. "He used to explain that as a kid, on the way back from Badalona to Alella at night, he had fallen in love with the firmament from contemplating the starry sky so much." Joseph M. Casals' words in memory of Isidre Pòlit exemplify a passion for astronomy that accompanied the career of this scientist from an early age.

Pons i Rosell, Josep
Arbós (Tarragona) 1918 - Sant Feliu del Llobregat (Barcelona) 2013

Anthropologist. Highly regarded Physical Anthropologist and teacher to a generation of physical anthropologists. He was Professor of Anthropology, President of the SEAB (Spanish Society of Biological Anthropology, 1978-1984), of IDA (International Dermatoglyphics Association, 1961-1971) and Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts Barcelona.

Presas i Puig, Llorenç
Sant Boi de Llobregat, Baix Llobregat 1811 - Barcelona 1875

Educator. He got his Ph.D. degree in science (1846) and pharmacy (1846). He was a teacher of mathematics in the University of Barcelona and in the Escuela Industrial.