Mar\u00eda Ar\u00e1nzazu Vig\u00f3n was the daughter of General Vig\u00f3n, a Catholic monarchist who participated in the education of the children of Alfonso XIII and who promoted scientific research, being president of the Nuclear Energy Board and of the National Institute of Aeronautical Technology. She was a woman of deep Catholic convictions, received as a child in her family environment, and worked with women like Piedad de la Cierva, of Opus Dei, or with her sister Mar\u00eda Teresa, who would leave her scientific career to become a nun. She had to do with the development of nuclear energy in Spain, with the Optics Institute of the CSIC and the Laboratory and Research Workshop of the General Staff of the Navy, and with the military scientist and also a practicing Catholic Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Otero Navascu\u00e9s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She had eight siblings, all of them - also the three sisters - with university studies. Mar\u00eda Ar\u00e1nzazu and Mar\u00eda Teresa studied science, the other studied philosophy. Jos\u00e9 M\u00aa Otero Navascu\u00e9s, selected her to participate in the work of the Nuclear Energy Board. She received high-level academic training in European and North American centers on nuclear technology, together with a group of Spanish physicists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 1948 he received a grant from the Spanish government to travel to Rome to the Institute of Nuclear Physics, where he studied Geiger counters, which according to Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Otero Navascu\u00e9s had to learn to build in Spain to work in nuclear physics, and to Milan to the Centro di Informazioni Studi ed Esperienze. In 1949 he taught, together with Carlos S\u00e1nchez del R\u00edo, the first course on nuclear physics in Spain. He received his doctorate at the Max Planck Institute of Physics under the direction of Karl Wirtz at the beginning of the 1950's. He later studied at the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Chicago. She also obtained research funding from international entities; specifically, the International Atomic Energy Agency approved in 1961 a project directed by her entitled 'Studies on the properties of moderating and multiplying media by means of the pulsed neutron technique'.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mar\u00eda Ar\u00e1nzazu Vig\u00f3n fue hija del general Vig\u00f3n, mon\u00e1rquico cat\u00f3lico que particip\u00f3 en la educaci\u00f3n de los hijos de Alfonso XIII y que impuls\u00f3 la investigaci\u00f3n cient\u00edfica, siendo presidente de la Junta de Energ\u00eda Nuclear y del Instituto Nacional de T\u00e9cnica Aeron\u00e1utica. Fue una mujer de profundas convicciones cat\u00f3licas, recibidas de ni\u00f1a en su ambiente […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":41789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[36,39],"tags":[1333],"class_list":["post-41788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad","category-cultura","tag-cientificos-catolicos"],"yoast_head":"\n