José María Albareda Herrera (

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, 15 April 1902 - 26 February 1966,

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) was a Spanish soil scientist and science administrator. From its 1939 creation by

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to his 1966 death, he was the secretary general and head of the Higher Council of Scientific Research (CSIC), the main Spanish scientific institution. He was one of the first numerary members of the

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(from 1937) and was a close friend of its founder,

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. He was ordained a priest in 1959. In 1960, he was appointed the first president of the

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