CCSE questions on Science and awards

✓ Margarita Salas

Margarita Salas was a Spanish biochemist, a student of Severo Ochoa, known for her work with an enzyme from the phi29 virus, which makes it possible to copy DNA. Her invention had many uses in medicine and in the study of genes. She was one of the most recognised scientists in Spain and received many awards. Rosalía de Castro was a Galician poet and Concha Piquer a singer, not scientists.

✓ El CSIC

The Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) (the Spanish national research council) is the largest public institution dedicated to research in Spain. It has centres all over the country and depends on the Ministerio de Ciencia. The RAE looks after the language and the SGAE manages the copyright of musicians and writers. It was created in 1939 and today it has more than a hundred institutes.

✓ Vicente Aleixandre

Vicente Aleixandre, a poet of the Generación del 27, received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1977. Other Spanish people with the Nobel Prize in Literature are Camilo José Cela (1989) and Jacinto Benavente (1922). Pablo Picasso was a painter, and María Zambrano a philosopher, who received the Premio Cervantes. Remember: Nobel and poetry equals Aleixandre.