Federico Uruburu Fernandez was a Spanish

microbiologist A microbiologist (from Greek ) is a scientist who studies microscopic life forms and processes. This includes study of the growth, interactions and characteristics of microscopic organisms such as bacteria, algae, fungi, and some types of par ...

. He was involved in early development of microbiology and

electron microscopy An electron microscope is a microscope that uses a beam of electrons as a source of illumination. It uses electron optics that are analogous to the glass lenses of an optical light microscope to control the electron beam, for instance focusing i ...

in Spain, and was instrumental in establishing the Spanish Type Culture Collection.

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* Spanish academics Spanish microbiologists 1934 births 2003 deaths {{spain-scientist-stub