Diosdado Simón Villares (

Torremenga Torremenga is a municipality located in the province of Cáceres, in the autonomous community of Extremadura, Spain. It had a population of 603 inhabitants in 12 km. There are some Roman and Prehistoric remains and some typical porches with ...

, October 15, 1954- Cáceres, April 28, 2002) was a Spanish researcher,

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, tree surgeon and environmental teacher. He studied

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in UCM, and investigated

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. He was the manager of Cáceres' parks and gardens and a member of ADENEX. This association paid him a tribute in 2003 when they gave his name to their price ''ADENEX- Diosdado Simón''. He died of

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in 2002 when he was preparing the exhibition of

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s ''Por huevos'' (by eggs, ''

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'' means testis in

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). He was married to the lawyer Dolores Neria and they had two children. Cáceres City Council gave his name to a garden he designed, Jardín Diosdado Simón, which is located between the museums, Museo de Pedrilla and Museo de Guayasamín, which hosted his last exhibition ''Por huevos''.

Bibliography

*''Cáceres verde : el paseo de Cánovas'', Diosdado Simón Villares, Jose María Corrales Vázquez Badajoz : Institución Cultural El Brocense, 2001. *''Árboles Notables de Extremadura'', Diosdado Simón Villares, ADENEX, 1999 1954 births 2002 deaths People from the Province of Cáceres Deaths from lung cancer in Spain Spanish biologists 20th-century Spanish botanists 20th-century biologists {{spain-botanist-stub