José María Albareda (1902–1966) and the formation of the Spanish Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

Malet, Antoni

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“…The Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), equivalent to the Italian Centro Nazionale per la Ricerca (CNR) or the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), was the institution in charge of all university research in Spain (and of almost all non-university research as well). 3 The CSIC was the creature of Francoism: created the year the Spanish Civil War ended, it was inspired and run for almost 30 years by two heavyweights of the regime, José Ibáñez Martín (1896-1969) and José María Albareda Herrera [7]. Up until 1936, Spanish research and scientific policy remained under the authority of the Junta de Ampliación de Estudios (JAE), a government office endowed with quite a high degree of autonomy.…”

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Mathematics and Francoism: the interior exile of the mathematician Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer

Malet

2013

Lett Mat Int

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The article describes the most salient features of Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer's scientific career. Self-taught, despite serious physical disabilities Sunyer reached mathematical maturity in the the two decades following Spain's Civil War (1936-1939), the darkest years of Franco's dictatorship. A distinguished mathematician by international standards, he was never properly recognized as such in Spain. The article places Sunyer's career in the context of the scientific institutions during Francoism, discusses his relationships with great mathematicians such as Jacques Hadamard and Szolem Mandelbrojt, and describes his relative marginalization on the basis of the peculiar values that dominated scientific institutions during the Franco's regime.

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Mathematics and Francoism: the interior exile of the mathematician Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer

Malet

2013

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“…In fact, Masriera's name was recorded in the archives of Franco's police under the category of “ rojo ” (red), for his services to the democratic regime before and during the Civil War, 16 and he was not allowed to take back his position at the university. In his correspondence with some of the former colleagues who had managed to accommodate themselves in the new regime, 17 he lamented his marginalization from the new academic order, and insisted on having at least a research position in the Spanish National Research Council ( Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas , CSIC), founded by Franco in 1939 and led in practice by José María Albareda (1902–1966), a reputed chemist and member of the right wing Catholic organization, Opus Dei (Malet 2009). In reality, despite a number of promises and false expectations, Masriera never again obtained an academic post 18…”

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“…Catholic organization, Opus Dei (Malet 2009). In reality, despite a number of promises and false expectations, Masriera never again obtained an academic post.…”

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From Papers to Newspapers: Miguel Masriera (1901–1981) and the Role of Science Popularization under the Franco Regime

Nieto‐Galan

2013

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ArgumentThis paper analyzes the political dimension of Miguel Masriera's (1901–1981) science popularization program. In the 1920s, Masriera worked at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich – with Hermann Staudinger, the luminary of polymer chemistry – to later become a lecturer of theoretical and physical chemistry at the University of Barcelona. After living in exile in Paris, at the end of the Civil War he returned to Spain but never recovered his position. Instead, Masriera became an active popular science writer and adapted to the severe constraints of General Franco's military dictatorship (1939–1975). Inspired by the astronomer Arthur Eddington's world view, Masriera wrote and translated popular science books, and published articles in daily newspapers and journals. By examining Masriera's popular works, in particular his program for spreading “atomic culture” in Spain during the Cold War, this paper aims to contribute to the assessment of the role of science popularization in the domestic legitimization of that dictatorial regime and also its use as a vehicle for international recognition abroad.

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“…On the standards of living, see Barciela, ; Barciela, López, Melgarejo, & Miranda, . On the building of the new headquarters and the Republican memory, see Malet, , .…”

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Science and power: Francoist Spain (1939–1975) as a case study

Malet

2019

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This paper takes Franco's Spain to be a powerful case study for analyzing the ways in which power shapes science and technology and is shaped by them in return. Spain was the last country in Western Europe to establish closer links with any of the international cooperative institutions emerging after WWII. As such, developments internal to Spanish society were quite autonomous and relatively free from foreign influences. The paper focuses first on the brand new, powerful institution that the Francoist regime created to promote scientific research under tight political control, the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Next it turns to applied science and technology, top priorities for the regime's state‐supported programs of industrialization. They were implemented through the politically and financially powerful Instituto Nacional de Industria. Using diplomatic sources, the paper next argues that, until the late 1950s, Spain maintained substantial political and economic isolation essentially because the regime bet on autarkic policies and a model of largely isolated development. In this model, it was crucial for the regime to develop its own technological and scientific resources. Finally, the paper examines how the regime fostered a new Spanish identity in which science had a new role.

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José María Albareda (1902–1966) and the formation of the Spanish Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

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Mathematics and Francoism: the interior exile of the mathematician Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer

Mathematics and Francoism: the interior exile of the mathematician Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer

From Papers to Newspapers: Miguel Masriera (1901–1981) and the Role of Science Popularization under the Franco Regime

Science and power: Francoist Spain (1939–1975) as a case study

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