Cristina Vicente, the legacy of a pioneer

08/02/2022

Cristina Vicente loved birds. So much that she wanted to dedicate a doctoral thesis to them. But her director persuaded her to study another class of animals, much smaller and always with their feet on the ground: the diplopods. A change of orientation that would completely mark her life as a scientist.

The exhibition, organized by the Science and Technology Library, has had the collaboration of Professor Antoni Serra, director of the Animal Biodiversity Resource Center (UB), and María Teresa Vicente, sister of Dr. Vicente and the Department of Animal Biology, Plant Biology and Ecology (BABVE) of the UAB.

And it vindicates the figure of Dr. Cristina Vicente, one of the most important specialists of her time in the study of diplopods (better known as millipedes), making her research visible, highlighting the role of pioneer in a world of male zoologists, and valuing the personal legacy that the Library preserves from her, composed of scientific articles in the form of offprints (around 680) and her professional epistolary (approximately 200 letters).

The exhibition can be visited until March 8 in the showcase at the entrance.

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Exhibition photographs: ddd.uab.cat/record/252037