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159: 583: 488:, of which Cabrera was appointed as director. The Laboratory had five lines of investigation: magnetochemistry, physical chemistry, electrochemistry, electroanalysis and spectroscopy, and contributed greatly to the research and development of physics in Spain. With a grant from the Junta de Ampliación de Estudios (1912), Cabrera visited several European research centers including the Physics Laboratory of the 702: 817: 732:, named him secretary of that bureau, a post that he would occupy between 1937 and 1941, and he went to live to Paris. Nevertheless, after the end of the war, the Franco government demanded that he leave the post, even though the position had no representative value with respect to Spain. Cabrera resigned and went into self-exile in Mexico, where he was welcomed by the Faculty of Sciences at the 415: 25: 522:, then director of Strasbourg University's Physics Institute, commented in 1932 that among the 180 articles about magnetism present in the institute's library, 24 came from the Laboratorio de Investigaciones Físicas which Cabrera directed). He interpreted magnetization curves in terms of the 556:
However, his work was not solely investigation. He was also a great publisher and disseminator of modern theories of physics that were defined in the first thirty years of the 20th century. Thus, in 1912 he published an article in the magazine
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He was an experimental physicist, and developed his interests mostly in the field of magnetic properties of matter, achieving a prominent position among the physicists of his era. In 1903 he participated in the foundation of the
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with focus in the magnetic properties of matter. He is considered one of the greatest scientists of Spain and one of the founders of the study of physical sciences in his country.
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and the annals of that society. In 1905, he obtained the chair of Electricity and Magnetism in the Universidad Central. He married María Sánchez Real in 1909. In 1910, the
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On returning to Spain, Cabrera used the techniques he had learned during his European tour, especially those developed in the Zurich laboratory, to continue his research on
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in Paris. He was also a member, along with several Nobel Prize winners in Physics and Chemistry, of the sponsorship committee of the
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At the same time, he improved many experimental devices. He was the first scientist in Spain to use the methods of the
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Madrid, traveling through France. In 1937, the president of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures,
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Principios fundamentales de análisis vectorial en el espacio de tres dimensiones y en el Universo de Minkowski
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This article is about the Spanish physicist. For the US physicist and grandson of Blas Cabrera Felipe, see
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of 1930. Cabrera appears in the first row, seated, third from the viewer's right. He is seated between
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Estado actual de la teoría de los rayos X y Y. Su aplicación al estudio de la estructura de la materia
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In 1933, he participated in the creation of the Summer International University of Santander (now the
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Cabrera held several positions and belonged to numerous institutions: member and president of the
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Cabrera's research work was prolific. Between 1910 and 1934 he published about 110 works (
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titled "Fundamental principles of vectorial analysis in three-dimensional space and in
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Cabrera's work was also recognized on an international level. Cabrera was host to
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Ramón y Cajal was elected for the position in 1905 but never took the seat
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La teoria de los magnetones y la magnetoquímica de los compuestos férricos
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during his visit to Spain in 1923. In 1928 he became a member of the
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for the determination of physical constants. Some of his measures of
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Sobre la Variación Diurna de la Componente Horizontal del Viento
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Bulletin of the Society of Friends of André-Marie Ampère
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Paramagnetismo y estructura del átomo y de la molécula
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Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales
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L'étude expérimentale du paramagnétisme. Le magnéton
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Blas Cabrera Navarro
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Arrecife, Lanzarote
Mexico City
Universidad Central de Madrid
Physics
magnetism
Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences
French Academy of Sciences
Royal Spanish Academy
Menéndez Pelayo International University
Doctoral advisor
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Real Academia Española
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Gerardo Diego
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