“Light 3. History of Physics”"This is the third and final part of the multimedia trilogy that the University of La Laguna has dedicated to the Canarian physicist Blas Cabrera to highlight his fundamental role in 20th-century science and pay tribute to his important legacy. This fusion of theater, music, and audiovisual elements can be seen on Thursday, May 18, on the Paraninfo stage starting at 6:00 p.m. Admission is free, although to manage capacity, it will be necessary to obtain tickets through the platform." Tomaticket.
The trilogy was conceived by Jorge Méndez, a professor in the Physics Department at the University of La Laguna, who also co-wrote the text with José Padilla, a playwright from Tenerife and winner of a Max Award for theater in 2019. Pepe Ramos Arteaga, director of the Philology Theater Group, directed the production, which also features Javier Fernaud, Luis Carballo, Patricia Acosta, Adán Rocío, and Sergio Lorenzo in its cast, along with the well-known Canarian actor Saulo Trujillo. The musical performance includes Mara Jaubert on piano, Marcos Depetris on violin, and soloist Besay Pérez.
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On August 1, 1945, Blas Cabrera Felipe died in Mexico after an unwanted exile that erased his name and memory for years. Until his last breath, he wrote a manuscript entitled "History of Physics," a science in which he himself played a leading role alongside his colleagues Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrödinger, and Marie Curie, among others, forming part of the elite of 20th-century European science, as one of the founding fathers of quantum physics.
Blas Cabrera laid the foundations for the study of the magnetic properties of the elements known as rare earths, indispensable today in green technologies and renewable energies for sustainability. The barbarity and cruelty of war, along with subsequent unjust accusations after the Civil War, purged and distanced the so-called 'father of Spanish physics' from where he should never have left, and it seems that, with his death, he closed his eyes precisely so as not to witness the madness of the atomic bombs with which the Second World War tragically culminated that same week in 1945.
Today, Blas Cabrera's message is more relevant than ever, and his example makes it possible to achieve significant goals in science. Recently, the distinguished physicist returned home, literally, with the repatriation of his remains to his native Canary Islands and his burial in La Laguna (Tenerife), where he grew up and began his education.
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