Joaquín Catalá i l'origen de la investigació experimental en física nuclear i de partícules a Espanya Authors Agustín Ceba Herrero Abstract Experimental nuclear and particle physics was initiated in Spain in 1950 by the physicist Joaquín Catalá. In a stay in Bristol in 1949-1950 Catalá learned the technique of photographic emulsions in Cecil Powells laboratory. In few years Catalá succeeded in creating a stable group, links were established with the most important laboratories and many scientific papers were produced. Downloads Text complet (Català) Published 2008-12-01 Issue Nova època, vol. 1 (1) : 2008 Section Centenary of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans: scientific activity in the 20th century License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors.On submitting articles for publication to the journal Actes d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Actes d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica.Authors answer to Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica (SCHCT) for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.SCHCT declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.Actes d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.