Person - Alvarado Fernández, Salustio (1897-1981)
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Alvarado Fernández, Salustio (1897-1981)Other forms
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A Coruña (provincia) 1897-02-02 - Madrid (España) 1981-09-23
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Spanish botanist, zoologist, and professor.
He was born in A Coruña in 1897. He completed his secondary education in Oviedo, Barcelona, and Valencia, where he was a student of professor Celso Arévalo Carretero, who had a decisive influence on his scientific vocation. He pursued his university studies at the Central University of Madrid, where he had the opportunity to work at the Museo de Ciencias Naturales and meet researcher Nicolás Achúcarro Lund. This experience, along with his relationship with Pío del Río-Hortega, allowed him to access histological staining techniques, which he applied to the plant world, making him one of the first to do so.
In 1920, he obtained the professorship of Natural History and Physiology and Hygiene at the Instituto de Gerona, and in 1922, at the Instituto de Tarragona, where he also served as an interim professor of German (1926-1928) and as director during his final years there (1930-1932). In 1921 and 1923, he received two grants from the Junta de Ampliación de Estudios, enabling him to travel to research centers in Berlin, Freiburg, and Munich. In 1932, he got the professorship of Organography and Animal Physiology at the Facultad of Ciencias of the Universidad de Madrid, where he carried out most of his academic work until 1965.
During the Spanish Civil War, his scientific work was interrupted, but he later resumed his research at the Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, later renamed Instituto José de Acosta, where he supervised several doctoral theses.
He was a member of the Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, serving as its president in 1951 and honorary president in 1977. He was also an academic at the Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales de Madrid.
Among his most notable publications are Contribución al conocimiento histológico de las medusas (1923), El origen de los cloroplastos en las hojas de Cicer arietinum (1923), and Anatomía y fisiología humanas con nociones de higiene (1934), among others. He also wrote a large number of science manuals and textbooks, most of them intended for secondary education.
He passed away in Madrid in 1981.
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