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Celia Brañas
Celia Brañas Fernández Miranda (20 May 1880 – 12 June 1948) was a Spanish scientist and teacher who fought for the education and inclusion of women into the scientific community in Spain. Early life Celia Brañas Fernández Miranda was born on 20 May 1880 in A Coruña, the daughter of Consuelo Fernández Miranda from Betanzos and Gonzalo Brañas Sánchez-Boado, a journalist, writer and pharmacist. Her older brother Gonzalo Brañas Fernández (1866–1948) was also a scientist. Her paternal uncle (her father's half brother) was Alfredo Brañas Menéndez, professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Santiago de Compostela and a leading representative of Galicians, Galician conservative reactionism. Education Brañas studied at the Normal school, Normal School in A Coruña, where she qualified as both an elementary and higher level teacher. She then studied for the Baccalaureate at the local Secondary School. She passed the Reconocimientos de productos comerciales y Prá ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Coruña
A Coruña (; ; also informally called just Coruña; historical English: Corunna or The Groyne) is a city and municipality in Galicia, Spain. It is Galicia's second largest city, behind Vigo. The city is the provincial capital of the province of A Coruña, having also served as political capital of the Kingdom of Galicia from the 16th to the 19th centuries, and as a regional administrative centre between 1833 and 1982. A Coruña is located on a promontory in the Golfo Ártabro, a large gulf on the Atlantic Ocean. It is the main industrial and financial centre of northern Galicia, and holds the headquarters of the Universidade da Coruña. A Coruña is the Spanish city featuring the tallest mean-height of buildings, also featuring a population density of of built land area. Name Origin There is no clear evidence as to what the name derives from. It seems to be from ''Crunia'', of unknown origin and meaning, documented for the first time at the time of Ferdinand II of Leó ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
