Description of the archive Ramón Ortiz Fornaguera

Authors

  • Gonzalo Gimeno Valentín-Gamazo Centre d’Història de la Ciència (CEHIC)-Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
  • Pablo Soler Ferrán Investigador independiente
  • Mercè Xipell Gómez del Moral Centre d’Història de la Ciència (CEHIC)-Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Keywords:

scientifics archives, history of Physics in Spain, scientific biography of Ramón Ortiz Fornaguera

Abstract

It describes the digital archive of the Spanish physicist and mathematician Ramon Ortiz Fornaguera (1916-1974), whose documents are in different archives, mostly in the Ortiz family’s. Most of the documents are correspondence between Ortiz and leading national and international scientists. It also contains most of his original teworks, records of universities and other institutions in which he studied and worked, and AGA (General Archives of Spain Administration) documents for the Education Fund (concerning to the exams he took when attemping to become a professor of Mathematical Physics) and Industry (corresponding to the Nuclear Energy Board, where he worked).

Keywords: scientifics archives, history of Physics in Spain, scientific biography of Ramón Ortiz Fornaguera

Author Biography

Gonzalo Gimeno Valentín-Gamazo, Centre d’Història de la Ciència (CEHIC)-Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

 

 

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Vol. 6 (2013)

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Research Notes

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