Alfredo Arturo Jadresic Vargas (18 September 1925 – 30 September 2021) was a Chilean scientist and professor of medicine. As a

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he competed in the

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, and placed ninth. Afredo_Jadresic_in_2005

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

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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

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. When democracy was restored he returned to Chile, where he specialized in endocrinology at the

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. 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 {{Chile-athletics-bio-stub