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August Pi i Sunyer
(1879-1965)
Professor of Physiology at the Medical
School of the University of Barcelona
(1916). Founder of the Catalan Society of
Biology (1912) and the Institute of
Physiology (1921). The Institute of
Physiology was a center of excellence in
biomedical research. After the Spanish
Civil War (1936-1939), August Pi i
Sunyer, exiled to Venezuela, created in
Caracas a new School of Physiology, the
"Instituto de Medicina Experimental".
UPDATED: September 19, 1998
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