Federico Uruburu Fernandez was a Spanish

microbiologist A microbiologist (from Ancient Greek, Greek ) is a scientist who studies microscopic life forms and processes. This includes study of the growth, interactions and characteristics of Microorganism, microscopic organisms such as bacteria, algae, f ...

. He was involved in early development of microbiology and

electron microscopy An electron microscope is a microscope that uses a beam of accelerated electrons as a source of illumination. As the wavelength of an electron can be up to 100,000 times shorter than that of visible light photons, electron microscopes have a hi ...

in Spain, and was instrumental in establishing the Spanish Type Culture Collection.

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* Spanish academics Spanish microbiologists 1934 births 2003 deaths {{spain-scientist-stub