Los orígenes de la investigación experimental en física nuclear y de partículas en España

Resumen

The origins and constitution of experimental nuclear and particle physics in Spain can be traced back to 1950 and the physicist Joaquín Catalá. In a stay in Bristol in 1949-1950 Catalá learned the technique of photographic emulsions in Cecil Powell’s laboratory. The technique was very well suited to an autarchic and isolated country like Spain, in a depressed situation after the Civil War. In few years Catalá succeeded in creating a stable group, establishing links with the most important foreign laboratories, producing many scientific papers and developing new research lines