Modesto Bargalló

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Modesto Bargalló Ardevol (* 1894 in Sabadell , Catalonia , † 1981 in Mexico City ) was a Spanish-Mexican teacher of natural sciences, biologist , chemist and chemical historian .

After completing his master's degree in 1911, Bargallo became a professor at the Escuela Normal de Maestros de Guadalajara in 1915 . He also studied further and received his doctorate in natural sciences in 1931 at the Central University of Madrid under Ignacio Bolívar . He wrote various textbooks on, for example, chemistry (although he also translated works by Richard Meyer and Wilhelm Ostwald from German), physics and biology. In 1928 he founded the magazine Faraday for the didactics of the natural sciences. He was also the editor of the Revista de Escuelas Normales . In 1939, after Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War , he emigrated to Mexico and in 1940 became Professor of Biology at the National Polytechnic Institute .

Among other things, he published a book on metallurgy and mining history in the Spanish colonial era.

In 1977 he received the Dexter Award . In 1964 he was a founding member of the Mexican Society for the History of Science (Sociedad Mexicana de Historia de la Ciencia y la Tecnología).

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  • Manual de Química , 1919
  • Como se enseñan las ciencias físico-químicas , Madrid 1923
  • Manual de Física , 1925
  • La vida de las plantas. Experiencias sencillas de fisiología vegetal , 1932
  • Metodología de las Ciencias Naturales y de la Agricultura , 1932
  • Paseos y excursiones escolares , 1934
  • Problemas de Física y Química , 1936
  • La minería y la metalurgia española durante la epoca colonial , 1955
  • Tratado de Química Inorgánica
  • Classical and modern ideas and studies on the composition and structure of sulfuric acid and its solutions, Part 1: from Sylvius and Mayow to the theory of Hantzsch (1908-1925) (Spanish), Ciencia, Volume 18, 1958, pp. 7-20
  • The architecture of sulfate ion and the composition of sulfuric acid and its solutions (Spanish), Ciencia, Volume 19, 1959, pp. 229-242
  • Las Ferrerías de los Primeros Veinticinco Años del México Independiente , 1965
  • Andrés Manuel del Río y su obra Científica , 1966
  • La Amalgamación de los Minerales de Plata en Hispanoamérica Colonial , 1969
  • Neuva Theorica del Beneficio de los Metales de Oro y Plata of Joseph Garcés y Equia , 1970
  • Los Trabajo, los Artículos, y Apuntes, 1942–1972, Sobre Química, Educación y la Metalurgia y de México y en Hispanoamérica Colonial , 1973

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SURNAME Bargalló, Modesto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bargalló Ardevol, Modesto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hispanic-Mexican science teacher, biologist, chemist and chemical historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Sabadell , Catalonia
DATE OF DEATH 1981
Place of death Mexico city