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The Rockefeller building
The story of the building called colloquially the “Rockefeller” really begins on April 3rd, 1926, during the reign of King Alfonso XIII and being head of the Government General Primo de Rivera, when a Royal Order was issued accepting the donation of the Rockefeller Foundation for the construction and equipment of an Institute of Physics and Chemistry. A few months later, on July 20th, with a great vision of the future, an area of 65,306 m2 was acquired in the Altos del Hipódromo, on the site known as Cruz del Rayo. There, they thought that several buildings destined for research could be built, with the National Institute of Physics and Chemistry as the first step forward. After a laborious and careful preparation of projects, it was completed in September 1931, and inaugurated on February 6th, 1932, under the presidency of the Minister of Public Instruction, Mr. Fernando de los Ríos, and was visited by the President of the Republic, Mr. Niceto Alacalá Zamora on March 7th of the same year. It was the crowning achievement of the efforts of the Board of Extension of Studies (JAE) since its creation in 1907, to finally have a Research Center that possessing the human and material resources comparable to those of the most advanced countries and allowed Spain to fully incorporate itself into the international scientific current in the fields of Physics and Chemistry. The attainment of this objective was verified in the international journals of the time which praised the Institute and described it as a model. (José Miguel Gamboa (1982) in “50 Years of Physical and Chemical Research”) At the Rockefeller building they develpod their scientific activity
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