Alfredo Arturo Jadresic Vargas (18 September 1925 – 30 September 2021) was a Chilean scientist and professor of medicine.
As a
high jumper
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he competed in the
1948 Summer Olympics
The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and also known as London 1948) were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, England, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus ca ...
,
and placed ninth.
![Afredo_Jadresic_in_2005](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Afredo_Jadresic_in_2005.jpg)
Personal life
Jadresic was born in
Iquique
Iquique () is a port city and commune in northern Chile, capital of both the Iquique Province and Tarapacá Region. It lies on the Pacific coast, west of the Pampa del Tamarugal, which is part of the Atacama Desert. It has a population of 191,468 ...
in September 1925. He came from a family of Croatian (Dalmatian) origin. He died in
Santiago
Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose ...
on 1st October 2021, at the age of 96. According to another source
the date was the 30th September.
Medical career
Jadresic got his Doctorate in medicine and was a professor of medicine at the University of Chile, and then Dean of Medicine from 1968 to 1972. In September 1973, after the coup d'état, he was arrested and spent 51 days in the
National Stadium of Chile, but was released with no charges but forced to leave the country. He spent his exile in the
Royal Sussex Hospital
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in
Hastings, England
Hastings () is a large seaside town and borough in East Sussex on the south coast of England,
east to the county town of Lewes and south east of London. The town gives its name to the Battle of Hastings, which took place to the north-west at ...
. When democracy was restored he returned to Chile, where he specialized in endocrinology at the
University of Chile
The University of Chile ( es, Universidad de Chile) is a public research university in Santiago, Chile. It was founded on November 19, 1842, and inaugurated on September 17, 1843. . Jadresic gave an account of his career and life in a book published in 2007.
References
1925 births
2021 deaths
Chilean scientists
Chilean people of Croatian descent
Olympic athletes for Chile
Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Chilean male high jumpers
Chilean expatriates in the United Kingdom
Sportspeople from Iquique
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