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16 unusual facts about Complutense University of Madrid


Acratas

Acratas, also known as the anti-crats, was a protest group formed at Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, by Agustin Garcia Calvo in 1967.

Alejandro Romualdo

He studied literature at the National University of San Marcos in 1946 and then at the University of Madrid in 1951.

Belper School

Prof David Leslie Hawksworth CBE, mycologist and lichenologist, Research Professor since 2001 at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Complutense University of Madrid), President from 1986-7 of the British Lichen Society, from 1990-1 of the British Mycological Society and from 1994-7 of the International Union of Biological Sciences, and Editor from 200-8 of Mycological Research

CEU San Pablo University

It was a college of the Complutense University of Madrid until it was segregated in 1993 to be established as an independent university.

Enric Prat de la Riba

He started his law studies at the University of Barcelona and finished and received his degree at the Central University of Madrid

Enrique Moles Ormella

In 1936, he was a professor and vice-rector of the Complutense University of Madrid, department head of the National Institute of Physics and Chemistry, the Secretary of the Spanish Society of Physics and Chemistry, a member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences.

Moles obtained the bachelor degree from Colegio Iberico in Barcelona, and in 1900 he entered to study pharmacy at the Complutense University of Madrid.

Gerhard Schick

Between 1992 and 1998 Schick continued with his economics education at the University of Bamberg, University of Freiburg and Complutense University of Madrid where he was awarded his Diplom in Economics.

Infante Gonzalo of Spain

He studied Engineering at the Catholic University of Leuven, instead of at the University of Madrid as originally planned for him.

Ismael Serrano

After studying Physics in the Complutense University of Madrid, Ismael Serrano started his musical career in the early nineties in Madrid, singing folk based guitar music in a café circuit, at abashedly political venues like Libertad 8, Galileo and Nuevos Juglares.

Justo Bolekia Boleká

He attended college at Complutense University of Madrid obtaining a Doctorate degree in Modern Philology in 1986.

LED lamp

Tests performed at the Complutense University of Madrid indicate that prolonged exposure to the shorter blue band spectrum LED lights may permanently damage the pigment epithelial cells of the retina.

Manuel Tagüeña

Before the Spanish Civil War, he was a member of the socialist youth and studied matemathics and physics at the Madrid University.

Open Cloud Computing Interface

OCCI began in March 2009 and was initially led by Sun Microsystems, RabbitMQ and the Complutense University of Madrid.

Tizona

The recent investigations of the Complutense University of Madrid, published in 2001, signal that the sword is from the 11th century; nevertheless the Curator of the Royal Armory Álvaro Soler del Campo points out that the sword is formed of three joined pieces and that their typology is the same as that of the handle, adornment, and the inscription, from the era of the Catholic Monarchs.

University of Madrid

Complutense University of Madrid, a public research university founded in 1293, historically referred to as the Universidad de Madrid


Álvaro Pombo

Born in Santander, Cantabria, he studied at the Complutense University of Madrid and received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London, where he lived between 1966 and 1977.

Ángeles González-Sinde

González-Sinde studied Classics at the Complutense University of Madrid and did a Masters in Cinema Scriptwriting at the AFI Conservatory in Los Angeles.

Carleton Beals

They left Mexico in 1921 for Europe where Beals studied at the University of Madrid, and then the University of Rome.

Eduardo García de Enterría

Born in Ramales de la Victoria, Cantabria, he studied law at the Universities of Barcelona and Madrid, where he obtained his Doctoral Degree, cum laude.

Homo antecessor

Archaeologist Eudald Carbonell i Roura of the Universidad Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain and palaeoanthropologist Juan Luis Arsuaga Ferreras of the Complutense University of Madrid discovered Homo antecessor remains at the Gran Dolina site in the Sierra de Atapuerca, east of Burgos.

Javier Garciadiego

He joined El Colegio de México as a professor in 1991 and has worked as visiting scholar at St Anthony's College, University of Oxford; University of Chicago; Trinity College, Dublin; Complutense University of Madrid and University of Salamanca.

Larry Siedentop

After retirement, Siedentop was a Visiting Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Wassenaar, The Queen Victoria Eugenia Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, and a Visiting Fellow in the Philosophy and Public Affairs program at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

Luis Ladaria Ferrer

Luis Ladaria Ferrer was born in Manacor, on the island of Majorca, Spain and studied at the University of Madrid, graduating with a degree in law in 1966.

Paul-Louis Landsberg

Between 1934 and 1936 he held positions at the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Barcelona, where his thought began to exert a great influence over his pupils, and where it is still studied avidly to this day.

Pierre André Pourret

His botanical collection can be found in the School of Pharmacy at the Complutense University of Madrid, donated by the University of Santiago de Compostela.

Ramon Castroviejo

Born in Logroño, Spain he received his medical education at the University of Madrid.

Ricard Pérez Casado

Married with one son, Pérez studied Economic Science at University of Barcelona and graduated in Political and Social Science at Complutense University of Madrid before gaining a PhD in history from University of Valencia.

Rosa Visiedo Claverol

Visiedo Claverol received her Bachelor's degree in Information Sciences (journalism) at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, and her doctorate of Information Sciences(Marketing) at the Complutense University of Madrid.