Simón Sarasola

Simón Sarasola (1871–1947) was a Spanish meteorologist and Jesuit priest. He was president of the Belen Jesuit Preparatory School at Havana, and director of the National Meteorological Observatory, and in 1923 established the first seismograph in Colombia.[1][2] He co-founded the Geophysical Institute of the Colombian Andes with J. E. Ramírez in 1941.[3]:139

References

  1. ↑ Glick, Thomas F. (1994). "Science and society in twentieth-century Latin America". In Bethell, Leslie. The Cambridge History of Latin America. Volume VI. Cambridge University Press. p. 509. ISBN 978-0-521-23226-5.
  2. ↑ "The Rev. Simon Sarasola, S.J. 1871-1947". Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 38 (3): 229–231. 1948.
  3. ↑ Udias, Agustin (2013). Searching the Heavens and the Earth: The History of Jesuit Observatories. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic. ISBN 978-94-017-0349-9.

Further reading

  • Escobar, Wladimiro (1971). "El padre Simon Sarasola eminente cientifico jesuita". Publicacion del Instituto Geofisico de los Andes Colombianos: Meteorologia. 8. OCLC 797727809.


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