Gregorio Baró

Gregorio Baro
BornJune 19, 1928 (1928-06-19)
Santiago Temple, Córdoba Province, Argentina
DiedMay 28, 2012(2012-05-28) (aged 83)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
EducationUniversidad de Buenos Aires
Known forDiscovery of new radioisotopes of ruthenium, rhodium, rhenium, tungsten, and osmium, and the development of an MRI contrast agent
Scientific career
FieldsRadiochemistry, nuclear chemistry
WorkplacesNational Atomic Energy Commission
Adrian Aten, Instituut voor Kernphysisch Onderzoek (Amsterdam)
Other academic advisors
Walter Seelmann-Eggebert, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Gregorio Baró (June 19, 1928 - May 28, 2012) was an Argentine scientist. He was born in Santiago Temple, Córdoba and died in Buenos Aires.

Biography

The son of Spanish immigrants from Cabreros del Río in the Province of León, Baró married the writer María Dhialma Tiberti. He completed his Associate of Science in Chemistry degree at the Otto Krause Technical School in Buenos Aires, in 1945. Afterward, he pursued his studies at Universidad de Buenos Aires from which he obtained a Bachelor of Science, followed by a PhD in Chemistry in 1961 at the Instituut voor Kernphysisch Onderzoek, in Amsterdam. In 1968, he conducted research on the production of radioisotopes in Bombay, India, organized by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Baró was additionally a professor at several universities, such as Universidad de Buenos Aires, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, and Universidad Nacional del Litoral.[citation needed] He was named Emeritus Researcher of the National Atomic Energy Commission in 2010, following 40 years of institutional work and reaching the rank of Director. He was also awararded a Doctor honoris causa in Radiochemistry from Higher University of San Andres, Bolivia, notably for his work in discovering new isotopes of ruthenium, rhodium, rhenium, tungsten, and osmium, and for the development of a contrast agent for Magnetic Resonance Imaging during retirement.

He was the Argentinian representative of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) for several years. In addition, he served as consultant for the Comisión de Energía Atómica de Bolivia, the Comisión Chilena de Energía Nuclear, the Instituto de Asuntos Nucleares de Colombia, the International Atomic Energy Agency in Asunción, Paraguay, the Centro Atómico del Perú, and the government of Uruguay.

References

  1. ↑ Baró, Gregorio Bonifacio. "Estado químico del arsénico formado por transformaciones nucleares en compuestos inorgánicos de germanio, selenio, bromo y arsénico" (PDF). bibliotecadigital. Retrieved 23 December 2021.
  2. ↑ Radicella, R. (1992), Walter Seelmann-Eggebert: el fundador de la radioquímica argentina. Ciencia e Investigación: Buenos Aires.
  3. ↑ AATN (2010). Herederos de la Antigua Alquimia, BN&T, v, 14-15.
  4. ↑ Barbero, A.(1967) Revista. Sociedad Científica del Paraguay.
  5. ↑ FLEGENHEIMER, J. (2014). The mystery of the disappearing isotope. Revista Virtual de Química, V. XX. Available at http://www.uff.br/RVQ/index.php/rvq/article/viewFile/660/450 Archived 2015-06-19 at the Wayback Machine