SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 18 Oct. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The family of the Canarian physicist Blas Cabrera, considered the ‘father’ of Spanish Physics and whose remains were buried this past weekend in a cemetery in La Laguna after being repatriated from Mexico, claim his scientific legacy, now in the hands of the president of the association ‘Friends of Scientific Culture’.
His grandson, Luis Cabrera, exposes in a letter collected by Europa Press that more specifically refers to an “unpublished and hidden” manifesto to the scientific and educational community prepared by Blas Cabrera under the name of ‘History of Physics’ during his exile in Mexico as a result of the Civil War where he died in 1945 when his Parkinson’s disease worsened.
This document, together with others such as the ‘Theory of Relativity’ written in 1934 for the International University of Santander, is in the hands of the president of the association, Francisco González de Posada, who received the scientific production of Blas Cabrera as on loan from the physicist Nicolás Cabrera, son of Blas Cabrera, in 1986.
The objective, the letter points out, was to promote events to publicize his life and work, taking advantage of the 50th anniversary of his death in 1995, which were held on the islands of Lanzarote, Gran Canaria and Tenerife.
In fact, in Lanzarote the so-called Casa de Blas Cabrera was opened in the Casa de los Arroyo, in Arrecife, financed by the Cabildo and with an exhibition with all the scientific legacy, until in 2004 the contract with the association was rescinded .
The family criticizes that Francisco González de Posada has not returned the scientific legacy since 2004 to the point that he has not even replied to three burofaxes sent between January and July of this year, discrediting him that “silence is not an option.”
Along these lines, he maintains that the entire scientific production of Cabrera, one of the great scientists of the first half of the 20th century and a friend of Albert Einstein, “constitutes a cultural, historical and scientific heritage of this country, which cannot afford even a minute rather than remain hidden or forgotten”.
Luis Cabrera clarifies that August 2, 2025 will be the 80th anniversary of his grandfather’s death and they will no longer be able to claim the scientific legacy to make it available to the Spanish scientific and educational community.
“Rest assured that I will continue to reproach you until my last breath for the disloyalty you perpetrate every day that passes without returning it, towards Blas Cabrera, Nicolás Cabrera, the Spanish scientific community and Mexico and Latin America as well. If, on the contrary, you decide to attend my vindication from this letter, I will not hesitate to publicly acknowledge his lordship,” the letter concludes.
