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Francisco Orts Llorca was a physician ,anatomist and embryologist.
Biography
Llorca was born in city of Tampico , Mexico in the year 1905 in a Spanish family. His father was a sailor. At the age of three, his family moved to live in Benidorm ( Marina Baja ). [1][2][3] Llorca graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Valencia in 1928. In 1935, he was appointed as the chair of anatomy at the University of Cádiz.
During the Spanish Civil War , he took refuge in the Republican area. He was a disciple of Henri Rouviére in Paris, Alfred Fischel in Vienna, Walter Vogt in Munich and Pedro Ara Sarriá in Madrid . His international travels before the Spanish Civil War were financed by the Board for the Expansion of Scientific Studies and Research (Junta para Ampliación de Estudios e Investigaciones Científicas), who later built an experimental embryology laboratory for him.[4]He was appointed Professor of Anatomy at the University of Madrid.[5] He is considered as one of the pioneers in the field of anatomy along with Hermann Braus in Spain. He is also known as the founder of the field experimental embryology.[6]
Accolades
- Doctor honoris causa from the National University of Córdoba (Argentina)
- Doctor honoris causa from the University of Barcelona
- Cross of St. George (1987)
Works
In addition to dozens of research works in embryology (both theoretical and experimental),he published :[7][8][9][10]
- La fisiología del desarrollo y su importancia en biología(1956)
- Tratamiento del infarto cerebral (1979)
Notable students
He had founded an extensive anatomical school, only comparable at the time with the one created by José Escolar García.Both had extensive impact in the Spanish territory during the period of the Franco dictatorship and the Democratic Transition.[11] Some of his renowned students were:
- José Luis Martínez Rovira (1925-1988) He was Professor of Anatomy at the University of Cádiz
- Antonio López Rodríguez (1925-1997) He was Professor of Anatomy at the University of Cádiz
- José María Genis Gálvez (1928-2003).First professor at the University of Salamanca and later at the University of Seville.
- Domingo Ruano Gil (1932-2016). He was a professor of Anatomy at the University of Barcelona
- Narciso Luis Murillo Ferrol (1927-2013). He was a professor of veterinary anatomy at the University of Zaragoza.
- José Francisco Rodríguez Vázquez (b.1958) Professor of Anatomy in Madrid.
- Manuel Anitua Solano (b.1932)
- Juan de Dios García García (b.1930) He was Professor of Anatomy at the University of Granada.
- Rafael González Santander (b.1932). Dedicated to histology, he was also a professor of the discipline at the University of Alcalá de Henares.
- Josep María Domènech Mateu (1944-2019). He was Professor of Anatomy at the Autonomous University of Barcelona
Reference
- ^ Aréchaga, Juan; Jiménez-Collado, Juan; Ruano-Gil, Domingo (2009-11-06). "A glance at Spanish Embryology and Teratology during the XX Century through the academic life of Francisco Orts-Llorca (1905-1993)". International Journal of Developmental Biology. 53 (8-9-10): 1165–1177. doi:10.1387/ijdb.072492ja. ISSN 0214-6282. PMID 19924623.
- ^ Velasco Morgado, Raúl (2016). Embriología en la periferia : las ciencias del desarrollo en la España de la II República y el franquismo. Madrid. ISBN 978-84-00-10162-6. OCLC 973269982.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Brown, Donald D. (1987). "The Department of Embryology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington". BioEssays. 6 (2): 92–96. doi:10.1002/bies.950060213. ISSN 0265-9247.
- ^ Berkson, I.B.; Speiser, E. A. (1948). "The United States and the Near East". The Jewish Quarterly Review. 39 (1): 107. doi:10.2307/1453093. ISSN 0021-6682.
- ^ Goldston, Stephen E. (1965). "Concepts of Community Psychiatry : A Framework for Training". PsycEXTRA Dataset. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
- ^ "Cogman, Very Rev. Frederick Walter,(4 March 1913-23 July 2005), Dean of Guernsey,1967-78; Rector of St Peter Port, Guernsey,1976-78", Who Was Who, Oxford University Press, 2007-12-01, retrieved 2021-07-08
- ^ Arechaga, Juan; Jimenez-Collado, Juan; Ruano-Gil, Domingo (2009). "A glance at Spanish Embryology and Teratology during the XX Century through the academic life of Francisco Orts - Llorca(1905-1993)". The International Journal of Developmental Biology. 53 (8-9-10): 1165–1177. doi:10.1387/ijdb.072492ja. ISSN 0214-6282.
- ^ Mateu, Domenech; Llorca, Orts (1976). "Arterial vascularization of the sinuatrial node in the embryonic rat heart". Cells Tissues Organs. 94 (3): 343–355. doi:10.1159/000144566. ISSN 1422-6421.
- ^ Freedom, R. M. (1992), "Anomalies of Aortopulmonary Septation: Persistent Truncus Arteriosus, Aortopulmonary Septal Defect,and Hemitruncus Ar teriosus", Neonatal Heart Disease, London: Springer London, pp. 429–452, ISBN 978-1-4471-1816-9, retrieved 2021-07-08
{{citation}}: line feed character in|title=at position 118 (help) - ^ "LISTA DE PUBLICACIONES DE ACADEMICOS DE LA FACULTAD CIENCIAS FORESTALES - UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE". Bosque. 1 (2): 118–122. 1976. doi:10.4206/bosque.1976.v1n2-07. ISSN 0304-8799.
{{cite journal}}: Check|url=value (help) - ^ "The Foreign Ministry and Foreign Affairs during the Cultural Revolution *". The China Quarterly. 40: 65–102. 1969. doi:10.1017/s0305741000044556. ISSN 0305-7410.