Simón Sarasola

Simón Sarasola (1871[1]–Dec/12/1947[2]) 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. After the opening of Panama Canal (1914[3]), he founded the Montserrat Observatory in Cienfuegos, southern Cuba.[4][5] He moved to Bogotá (Colombia) in 1921, where participated in the creation of the weather observatory of Colegio Nacional de San Bartolomé in Bogotá[4] and the reorganization of a national meteorological service.[6] In 1923 established the first seismograph in Colombia.[7][8] He co-founded the Geophysical Institute of the Colombian Andes with J. E. Ramírez in 1941.[9]: 139 

References

  1. ^ Ramirez, J. Emilio (1948). "The Rev. Simon Sarasola, S.J. 1871-1947". Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 38 (3): 229–231.
  2. ^ "Shorter Contributions". Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 29 (6): 329–337. 1948. doi:10.1175/1520-0477-29.6.329. ISSN 0003-0007.
  3. ^ "Panama Canal", Wikipedia, 2020-05-31, retrieved 2020-06-02
  4. ^ a b Osorio, Luis H. (1943). "Nota Biografica Sobre el R. P. Simon Sarasola". Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 24 (3): 116–117. doi:10.1175/1520-0477-24.3.116.
  5. ^ Talman, C. Fitzhugh (1908). "Notes from the weather bureau library". Monthly Weather Review. 36 (6): 174–175. doi:10.1175/1520-0493(1908)362.0.CO;2. ISSN 0027-0644.
  6. ^ "PERSONAL NOTES". Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 1 (10): 116–117. 1920. doi:10.1175/1520-0477-1.10.116. ISSN 0003-0007.
  7. ^ Glick, Thomas F. (1994). "Science and society in twentieth-century Latin America". In Bethell, Leslie (ed.). The Cambridge History of Latin America. Volume VI. Cambridge University Press. p. 509. ISBN 978-0-521-23226-5.
  8. ^ "The Rev. Simon Sarasola, S.J. 1871-1947". Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 38 (3): 229–231. 1948.
  9. ^ 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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