Eduardo Morales Miranda (14 November 1910 – 17 November 2012) was one of the founders of

Universidad Austral de Chile Austral University of Chile ( es, Universidad Austral de Chile or UACh) is a Chilean research university based primarily in Valdivia, Chile, Valdivia, with a satellite campus in Puerto Montt. Founded on September 7, 1954, it is one of the eight or ...

, and its first rector. He was born to Abdón Morales and Amelia Miranda, who lived in Constitución,

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. Morales went to high school in ''Liceo

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'' in

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, and went on later to study medicine in

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, where he became a physician. In 1954 he was elected President of the Directory of Members of the newly created

. He was elected rector of the university the same year and stayed in that position until 1961 when he renounced. He turned 100 in November 2010.

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Article on Miranda in 2004
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