Catalan eminent geologist . She published books and over a hundred articles on everything in the field of stratigraphy and paleogeography of Triassic and Permian periods in Catalonia, Spain and Western Europe. His father, Guillem Virgili, was inspector of the Generalitat of Catalonia, responsible for economic issues of transfers from the central State. His mother Carmen Rodon, pharmaceutical, a professor at the School of Agriculture. In 1939 both were removed from their jobs.