Facundo Bueso Sanllehí

Facundo Bueso Sanllehí (February 5, 1905 - January 24, 1960) was a physicist and an educator.

He was born on February 5, 1905, in Mexico City, Mexico. His family was forced to flee to Spain in 1915 because of the Mexican Revolution. Later in 1917 they moved to San Juan, Puerto Rico. In 1927 he graduated form the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, and became a physics professor there even before graduating.[1] He became a member of Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity.[2] In 1941 he earned his PhD from the University of Chicago, then in 1943 he was named dean of the UPRRP College of Natural Sciences; he was the first person to hold that position.[3] In 1950, he did research on the colony of monkeys located at Cayo Santiago in Puerto Rico.[4]

In 1940 and in 1941 he was named a Guggenheim Fellow for Latin Americans for his studies in the field of band spectra.[5]

He had a weekly 15-minute science radio show on WIPR called Átomos de Luz (Atoms of Light) from 1949 until his death.[3]

In 1950 he was exalted to the Puerto Rico football and volleyball halls of fame.[1] The UPRRP College of Natural Sciences Building is named after him.[6]

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References
  1. Rafael J. Mercado Gotay, BIOGRAFIA DEL DR. FACUNDO BUESO (in Spanish), retrieved September 11, 2019
  2. "Capitulo Eterno". fisigmaalfa.org. Archived from the original on 2008-04-15. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
  3. Cerame Vivas, Máximo (September 11, 2018), "Intentos de educar al País frecuentemente fracasan", El Vocero (in Spanish), San Juan, Puerto Rico
  4. "Monkey Business in Puerto Rico". The World's News (Sydney, NSW : 1901 - 1955). 4 November 1950. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  5. Facundo Bueso-Sanllehí, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, retrieved September 11, 2019
  6. LA FACULTAD (in Spanish), UPRRP College of Natural Sciences, retrieved September 11, 2019
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