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This chapter will complement the information given in the previous chapter by Baracca, Fajer and Ródriguez on the development of physics in Cuba from 1959 to the present. Attention will focus here on the onset and development of physics teaching and research carried out at the University of Oriente, located in Santiago de Cuba, generally regarded as the second most important city of the country from an economical, social and cultural point of view. Its Physics School was formally established in 1970, replacing the physics chair that has existed since the founding of the university in 1947.
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Notes
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According to a letter to Soto del Rey, dated 26 February l952 and signed by Ernesto Pujals Fernández, Secretary General of the University of Oriente, the University Board had decided on 30 January “to send two professors abroad every year to carry out special graduate studies” and chose him to be “the first one to enjoy the benefit of this decision.”
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Soto del Rey resigned from the staff and the Board of Directors of the university in protest of the approval of a proposal to privatize the university presented by the Rector to the Board on February 1, 1948. His tough critical stance strengthened the strong movement against privatizing, which was finally defeated.
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Interviews undertaken by Miguel Matute and Ramón Pomés.
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A plan for the training of physicists at the university. (Undated document, probably written by the end of 1967 or the beginning of 1968.)
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Report to the Ministry of Education’s Vice Minister for Higher Education on the physical engineering degree course.
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Interviews granted by Miguel Matute and Ramón Pomés.
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Graduates Register, General Secretariat of the university.
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See the chapter by Ernesto Altshuler et al. on the Cuban technophysical experiments in space.
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Méndez Pérez, L.M., Cabal Mirabal, C.A. (2014). Physics at the University of Oriente. In: Baracca, A., Renn, J., Wendt, H. (eds) The History of Physics in Cuba. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, vol 304. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8041-4_8
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