Felisa Martín Bravo

felisa martín bravo

FELISA MARTÍN BRAVO

BY EMMA PRECIADO VIZÁN AND JOSÉ ANTONIO RODRÍGUEZ CORONIL

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BIOGRAPHY

Birth DeathFamily Discovery

DEGREES AND JOBS

CURIOSITIES

FELISA MARTÍN BRAVO

BIOGRAPHY

STUDIES until she was 20 years old

She completed his secondary studies at the General and Technical Institute of Gipuzkoa until finishing high school. In 1918, she entered university to study Physical Sciences in Madrid.

FAMILY

She lived in the Amara with her parents, Enrique and Rosalía, and her little sister named Rosalía.She married José Vallejo, Professor of Philology at the University of Seville.

Felisa was born in San Sebastián on June 11, 1898

BIRTH

She died on October 29, 1979 in Alabama (United States)

DEATH

She established the structure of nickel and cobalt oxides and lead sulfide

DISCOVERY

DEGREES AND JOBS

She started working in the Physics Research Laboratory. There, she put into practice the method developed by the Braggs and also that of the physicists Peter Debye and Paul Scherrer. Due to the work she did, she passed with a very high grade.

She worked teaching in the Science Department of the School Institute while she was studying in order to get a high school teacher degree.

At the age of 24, Felisa Bravo Martín graduated in Physics.

From 1922 to 1926, Felisa specialized in the study of crystal networks with X-ray devices and in her last year she worked as an assistant in the Faculty of Sciences.

In 1929 she began her work in the meteorological service as an assistant, being the first woman and the only one until 1935.

In 1927 she traveled to Connecticut and Vermont to teach Spanish at several high schools for young ladies.

In 1932 she moved to the University of Cambridge

In the Cavendish laboratory she focused on X-ray spectrography techniques and studied atmospheric sounding systems together with Charles Thomson Rees Wilson.

In 1934 she returned home and joined the meteorological service until the Civil War began.

She was expelled from the meteorological agency in 1937 due to the fact that she did not want to move to Valencia.

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In November 1937, Felisa Martín Bravo was elected accidental director of the Igeldo observatory.

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During 1943 and 1954 she wrote several articles with the results of her research.

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Felisa Martín Bravo worked in the meteorological service until her retirement.

She was expelled from the meteorological agency in 1937 due to the fact that she did not want to move to Valencia.

In 2017, the San Sebastián town hall honored her with a street with her name.

Felisa was the first woman of the LIF and of Julio Palacios' research group.

CURIOSITIES

She became the first woman to obtain a doctorate in Physics.

In 2018, she was included in the Periodic Table of scientists on the occasion of the celebration of the 150th anniversary of Mendeléyev's publication and the declaration of 2019 as the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements.

FELISA MARTÍN BRAVO