Abel Salazar (scientist)

Abel de Lima Salazar (19 July 1889, in Guimarães – 29 December 1946, in Lisbon), was a Portuguese physician, lecturer, researcher, writer and painter who worked and lived in Porto. He was the son of Adolfo Barroso Pereira Salazar (20 October 1858 in Guimarães – 1 January 1941 in Porto) and wife Adelaide da Luz da Silva e Lima (died 3 October 1929 in Porto).

Abel Salazar
Born19 July 1889
Died29 December 1946(1946-12-29) (aged 57)
NationalityPortuguese
Alma materSurgical-Medical School of Porto
Scientific career
FieldsMedicine
InstitutionsFaculty of Medicine of the University of Porto
Memorial plate in Guimarães

Founded in 1975, the Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar (in English Abel Salazar Biomedical Sciences Institute), a research center and biosciences school of the University of Porto, was named after him. He was an anti-fascist and his painting with his social references anticipates the neo-realist movement in the Portuguese painting.

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