Person
Barnés González, Adela (1908-2011)Other forms
Ávila 1908-04-09 - Ciudad de México (México) 2011
Exiled Spanish chemist. Daughter of the politician Francisco Barnés Salinas and Dorotea González de la Calle. Francisco, Petra, Dorotea, Angela, Urbano and Juan Barnés González' sister. Married to Dr. Germán García García.
Graduate in Chemistry in 1932. That same year she obtained the Extraordinary Undergraduate Award. Between 1931 and 1936 she dedicated her time to researching in the Physics and Chemistry section of the National Institute of Physics and Chemistry. In that era she worked as an assistant professor in the chair of Inorganic Chemistry at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Madrid.
The outbreak of the Spanish Civil War surprised Adela in a congress in Paris, without possibility of returning to Spain to complete her thesis. With the establishment of Francoism she was purged and had to go into exile to Mexico, entering through Nuevo Laredo. She was a beneficiary of the SERE (Evacuation Services for Spanish Republicans). In Mexico, she worked as an assistant for José Giral in the School of Biological Sciences of the National Polytechnic Institute. She would stay in that school until her retirement and settling in Mexico City.
Date of the event: 1936 - 1939