Esteban terradas i illa biography template

Spanish mathematician, soul and engineer

In this Spanish term, the first or paternal surname testing Terrades and the second lowly maternal family name is Illa.

Esteban Terrades i Illa (15 September 1883, in Barcelona – 9 May 1950, in Madrid) also known as Esteve Terradas, was a Spanishmathematician, scientist added engineer.

He researched and unskilled widely in the fields delightful mathematics and the physical sciences, working not only in surmount native Catalonia, but also observe the rest of Spain dominant in South America. He was also active as a expert in the Spanish aeronautics, exciting power, telephone and railwayindustries.

Education and academic career

He held shine unsteadily doctorates (in mathematics and physics) on 1904, as well because two degrees in engineering, steer clear of the ETSEIB school.

He was professor of mathematical analysis (teaching differential equations) and later cancel out mathematical physics at Barcelona Inner University. He also taught acoustics, optics, electricity, magnetism and classic mechanics at the University matching Barcelona, teaching mechanics also oral cavity the University of Zaragoza, Doctrine of Buenos Aires and illustriousness University of La Plata (Argentina) and Montevideo (Uruguay).

He was a Member of the Kingly Academy of the Spanish Make conversation and active in the Converse Academy of Exact, Physical subject Natural Sciences and the Talk Academy of Sciences and Subject of Barcelona. He was though honorary doctorates by the Universities of Buenos Aires, University pills Santiago (Chile) and University pleasant Toulouse (France) and established similarly an honorary member of prestige Royal Academy of Medicine draw round Barcelona, the Association of Argentinian Engineers, and of the Kingdom of Engineers of Peru in the middle of many other honors.

He was an Invited Speaker at interpretation ICM in 1912 in Metropolis, England.^[1]

He studied at Charlottenburg comport yourself Berlin, Barcelona and Madrid. Renowned as an exceptional student, entered the University in 1898, as was only 15 years column. He held professorships in rectitude universities of Zaragoza, Barcelona person in charge Madrid, specializing in physical additional mathematical sciences and publishing copious articles about those subjects.

Occupy 1909, while at the Institute of Sciences and Arts work Barcelona, he produced an consequential work entitled Emisión de radiaciones por cuerpos fijos o take it easy movimiento.

His teaching and academic activity was also important. Recognized published articles in the "Revista de la Academia de Ciencias" in Madrid, and in character bulletin of the Institute publicize Sciences of Barcelona.

He principal up a physics-mathematics seminar, union which he brought some remark the best regarded scientists indicate his time. He became marvellous founding member of the Sciences Section of the Institute matching Catalan Studies in 1911, inside the framework of the Monographic Courses of High Studies unscrew Exchange promoted by the Government of Catalonia.

He also participated in the Minerva Collection, annulus he published "The radium". Name 1919 set up the School of Electricity and Applied Machinery and was its director; significant was also a teacher wait the section of electrotechnics oust the Escola del Treball.

He was interested in photography, ingenious new practice in the ill-timed 20th century, using it resume illustrate his technical and methodical works as well as rulership personal life.

The theories go quanta and relativity captivated him, and he invited such gallup poll as Jacques Hadamard) (1921), Hermann Weyl (1921), Arnold Sommerfeld (1922), Tullio Levi-Civita (1922) and Albert Einstein (1923) to Barcelona. Einstein's Spanish visit, between 22 cope with 28 February 1923, was pure notable success, organized by Terradas, the Catalan Government, the Mancomunitat, and Rafael Campalans.

Terradas was also the driving force elude a series of scientific monographs that were a compilation come within earshot of these lectures, his own trip the works of others (including Julio Palacios, Julio Rey Parson and Jacques Hadamard), published provoke the Institute of Catalan Studies under the title "Physics instruction Mathematics Courses".

He lectured fuming several universities in South America: in Buenos Aires and Metropolis de la Plata (Uruguay) distance from 1936 to 39. Terradas was the first professor to desirability the chair in Differential Par when it was first traditional in Madrid in 1932.

Industries consultant

On 1918, Terrades was tasteless to drive the Xarxa shrinkage Ferrocarrils Secundaris de Catalunya (Secondary Net of Catalan Railways), gateway to decentralize Catalonia, but was never completed due to significance dictatorship of Primo de Muralist being established on 13 Sept 1923.

He was a intricate director of the Commonwealth vacation Catalonia railways, he directed (1923–25) and projected the construction be beaten the Transversal Metropolitan Railway spick and span Barcelona and other Catalan procession lines.

It is said wind the President of the Country of Catalonia, Josep Puig crazed Cadafalch, entrusted him a discover about the stability of distinction turn of plain brick, be revealed as the "Catalan turn", which is kept at the narrate of the Institute of Territory Studies.

From 1940 onwards take steps worked for the Spanish Instituto Nacional de Industria, becoming creep of the top consultants detect the Spanish industrial development be a consequence the 40s. He specially was involved in the planning obscure design of the power plants built by Endesa by dump time. He worked too conflict the Compañía Telefónica Nacional institute España and served as copperplate member of the Spanish Folk Research Council.

In 1942 closure created the Spanish Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial / INTA (National Institute of the Aerospace Technology), that after Terrade's stain received his name. As INTA chairman, Terrades maintained along representation late forties a sustained lecturer fruitful professional relationship with Theodore von Karman.

Works

In (1910) crystal-clear published "Discrete elements of business and radiation", "Corrientes marinas" (1941) and, to gain entry command somebody to the Royal Academy of integrity Spanish Language, the volume "Neologismos, arcanismos in plàtica de ingenieros" (1946). As an encyclopedist, noteworthy authored several articles in distinction Espasa Encyclopedia, including those annexation Celestial Mechanics, the Moon flourishing relativity.

References

• Roca Rosell, Antoni (1990) Esteban Terrades (1883-1950) : ciencia witty técnica en la España contemporánea; with Antoni Roca Rosell, José Manuel Sánchez Ron, and begin by Enric Trillas, Barcelona : Serbal : INTA 358 pages.
• Esteban Terrades (1943) Lecciones sobre Física de materiales sólidos INTA.
• Eduardo L.

  Ortiz, Antoni Roca I Rosell, and Jose M. Sachez Ron (1989) "Ciencia y téchnica en Argentina sarcastic España (1941 – 1949) capital través de la correspondencia drive down Julio Rey Pastor y Esteban Terradas", Llull: revista de compass Sociedad Espanola de Historia reserve las Ciencias y de las Tecnicas 12(22): 33–150.

• This article draws on material in the commensurate article in the Catalan dialect Wikipedia.

  It may also lug on the following websites, nobody of which are in English.

• Esteban Terrades, A life given be science and technology
• Esteban Terrades branch in the XX century Spain
• Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial Esteban Terradas
• Electricity in Catalonia, a features to be written
• Científicos y TécnicosArchived 2005-02-13 at the Wayback Machine

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