Blas Cabrera's grandson thanks for the return of his legacy to his heirs

Luis Blas Cabrera, grandson of the physicist Blas Cabrera, considered the father of Physics in Spain and who died in exile in Mexico in 1945, has thanked for the return of part of his grandfather's legacy to his heirs, who must decide its future destiny.

Part of the family had requested the return of the legacy of the Spanish scientist, in particular the manuscript of his work "History of Physics", which took place last October 2022, according to a public letter from Luis Blas Cabrera, which EFE has had access to.

In the text, Cabrera especially thanks the person who kept this legacy and who delivered a dossier with three folders with handwritten documentation of the famous scientist to his granddaughter and in the presence of a representative of the Faculty of Physical Sciences who keeps said material until the grandchildren decide its future destiny.

Luis Blas Cabrera thanks Francisco González de Posada for "the lordship" for the return of an important part of the legacy that was claimed and apologizes "for the bad times that I have made him go through".

He also thanks him for the efforts dedicated to the dissemination of the figure of Blas Cabrera, especially between the years 1988 and 2004.

The mortal remains of Blas Cabrera Felipe, one of the great scientists of the first half of the 20th century, friend of Einstein, Curie, Sommerfeld and Bohr, were buried in October in La Laguna (Spain), transferred from Mexico, 77 years after his death and 85 years after going into exile due to the Civil War.

After having been exiled in France in 1937, Blas Cabrera moved to Mexico in 1941, where he was welcomed as a professor by the National Autonomous University and where, already suffering from Parkinson's disease, he concluded his manuscript "History of Physics", before dying in 1945.

In the request for the return of the legacy made in the month of September, the family considered that it was essential for the heirs, who wanted to make it available to the scientific and educational community of Spain.