About Ricardo Cirera
Lived 1864 – 1932 (aged 67–68). Ricardo Cirera was a Spanish geophysicist and astronomer.
Ricardo Cirera Salse (Os de Balaguer, 1864-Barcelona, August 1932) was a geomagnetist who conducted the first geomagnetic survey of the Philippines and who founded the El Ebro Observatory in Roquetes, Catalonia, Spain. He was a member of the Society of Jesus. He was involved in the founding of the popular science magazine Ibérica. Due to his work Cirera was given the Alfonso XII Grand Cross of Civil Merit by the Infanta Isabel de Borbón on 7 November 1914.
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Who was Ricardo Cirera?
Spanish geologist (1864–1932)
When was Ricardo Cirera born?
Ricardo Cirera was born in 1864 in Os de Balaguer.
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Ricardo Cirera died in 1932 in Barcelona.
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Ricardo Cirera was a geophysicist and astronomer.
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Ricardo Cirera was Spanish.
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