Scanning our Past from Madrid: Leonardo Torres Quevedo

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Other literature type 01 Jul 2005Publisher:Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)Journal:Proceedings of the IEEE, volume 93, pages 1,379-1,382 (issn: 0018-9219, eissn: 1558-2256,

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Authors: Antonio Pérez Yuste; Magdalena Salazar Palma;

doi: 10.1109/jproc.2005.851230

Scanning our Past from Madrid: Leonardo Torres Quevedo

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Leonardo Torres Quevedo is a world-renowned Spanish engineer. His fields of interest were very extensive and included mechanics, aeronautics, and automatics. During his life, he received numerous awards and scientific honors. He was a member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences (1901), a member of the Spanish Society of Physics and Chemists (1916), a member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Language (1920), an associate member of the French Academy of Sciences (1927), and an honorary member of the Geneva Society of Physics and Natural History. He also received the Echegaray Gold Medal from the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences in 1916 and was appointed president of this prestigious institution in 1928.

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Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
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