The premiere was attended by, among other authorities, the Rector of the University of La Laguna, Francisco Garc\u00eda; the Minister of Universities, Science and Innovation and Culture of the Government of the Canary Islands, Migdalia Mach\u00edn; the Councilor for Education and Youth of the La Laguna City Council, Sergio Eiroa; the Councilor for Innovation, Research and Development, Juan Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez, and the Councilor for Culture, Jos\u00e9 Carlos Acha, of the Tenerife Island Council; the Vice-Rector for Culture and University Extension, Isabel Le\u00f3n; the Vice-Rector for Research and Transfer, Antonio Aparicio; the Dean of Sciences, Mar\u00eda del Mar Afonso; the President of the Juan Negr\u00edn Foundation, Jos\u00e9 Medina; and the Honorary Consul of Mexico in Tenerife, Mar\u00eda de los \u00c1ngeles Baca, as well as a large audience that filled a good part of the Teatro Leal.<\/p>\n
The presentation also served as a tribute to Luis Blas Cabrera, grandson of Blas Cabrera, who passed away just two weeks before the documentary's premiere. He was a great champion of recovering his grandfather's memory and legacy and features prominently among the testimonies included in the documentary.<\/p>\n The event was presented by Sergio Eiroa, Councilor for Education and Youth of the La Laguna City Council, with remarks from Ra\u00fal Jim\u00e9nez and Jorge M\u00e9ndez. Both highlighted the documentary's value as an educational tool for introducing Blas Cabrera to younger generations and as a vehicle for his message. \u201cWe can achieve greatness in science and reach the highest levels, as Blas Cabrera's example shows us. Knowing who we were and what we have been capable of doing allows us to look to the present and the future with greater hope and pride. And it is a source of pride to have a full theater to see science,\u201d added M\u00e9ndez.<\/p>\n The documentary is a journey through the life and contributions of Blas Cabrera Felipe, from his humble beginnings in Lanzarote and La Laguna and his consolidation in Madrid, to becoming a prominent physicist of international renown, forming part of the elite of European science of his time. It narrates key moments in his career and personal life, from Einstein's historic visit to Madrid in 1923 to his participation in the legendary Solvay Conferences, including the purges following the Spanish Civil War and his exile and death in Mexico in 1945. It also delves into the recovery of his memory and his unpublished handwritten legacy, including the repatriation of his remains to La Laguna in Tenerife in 2022 and the recent renaming of the Blas Cabrera Institute of Physical Chemistry in his honor by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The figure of the Canarian physicist Blas Cabrera Felipe (1878-1945) is not sufficiently recognized despite being considered the \u201cfather\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,10],"tags":[427,428,429,430,431],"class_list":["post-1854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultura","category-destacado","category-portada-ull","tag-blas-cabrera-felipe","tag-documental","tag-jorge-mendez","tag-raul-jimenez","tag-teatro-leal"],"acf":[],"primary_category":null,"featured_image_thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/Estreno-Docu-Blas-Cabrera-14-300x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1855,"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions\/1855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/Estreno-Docu-Blas-Cabrera-01-300x200.jpg\")
<\/a>The 52-minute film was directed by filmmaker Ra\u00fal Jim\u00e9nez, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jorge M\u00e9ndez, a professor in the Physics Department at the University of La Laguna, who also served as the production's scientific advisor. A shorter, 35-minute version has also been prepared for distribution to schools in the Canary Islands for educational purposes. In addition, the documentary premiered yesterday. will be presented<\/a> On March 4th at 6:00 PM at the headquarters of the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences of Spain, in Madrid, led by its president, Ana Crespo from Tenerife<\/p>\n