Pilar González i Duarte

{{Short description|Spanish chemist (born 1945)}}

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| birth_date = 1945

| birth_place = Barcelona, Spain

| fields = Chemistry

| workplaces = Autonomous University of Barcelona

| alma_mater = Autonomous University of Barcelona

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| doctoral_advisor = Enric Casassas i Simó

| awards = Jaume Vicens i Vives award (2004)

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Pilar González i Duarte (born 1945) is a Spanish chemist. She is a member of the Institute for Catalan Studies (IEC). In 2004, she was the recipient of the Jaume Vicens i Vives distinction awarded by the Government of Catalonia.

Early life and education

Pilar González i Duarte was born in Barcelona, 1945.{{cite web |title="Any internacional de la taula periòdica": Pilar González Duarte |url=https://octubre.cat/activitat/any-internacional-de-la-taula-periodica-pilar-gonzalez-duarte/ |website=Octubre Centre de Cultura Contemporània |access-date=20 February 2023 |language=ca |date=10 April 2019}} She studied chemistry at the University of Barcelona, where she graduated in 1967 with an Extraordinary Prize. She did a master's degree in chemistry at the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) with Enric Casassas i Simó, where she also obtained an Extraordinary Doctorate Award.

Career and research

In 1990, González i Duarte became a professor at UAB, where she has held several senior positions. She focused her initial research on metal thiol compounds, using aliphatic mercaptans,{{cite web|url=https://www.tdx.cat/bitstream/handle/10803/3270/fnv1de1.pdf?sequence..|title=Síntesis y reactividad de complejos que continen los fragmentos Pt-S y/o Pt-H: Aplicación a reacción de desulfuración del tiofeno|first=Fernando |last= Novio Vázquez |website=tdx.cat |format=PDF |language=es}} with results that have been of interest for industrial processes of petroleum hydrodesulfurization and in the field of bioinorganics, a field in which she has also carried out several investigations. She has collaborated with the Pergamon publishing house in the U.K. and has been a lecturer. Between 1995 and 2002, she was president of the {{ill|Societat Catalana de Química|ca}} (Catalan Society of Chemistry), from where she promoted a new updated version of the Periodic table in Catalan.{{cite web |title=Pilar González Duarte – Els elements químics – 13/11/13 |url=https://mon.uvic.cat/tlc/pilar-gonzalez-duarte-els-elements-quimics-131113/ |website=Tertúlies de Literatura Científica |access-date=20 February 2023 |language=ca |date=15 July 2013}} In 2000, she curated a traveling exhibition inaugurated at mNACTEC, with the title {{lang|ca|Todo es química}} (Everything is chemistry).{{cite book |url=https://publicacions.iec.cat/repository/pdf/00000047%5C00000020.pdf|first=Pilar |last=González i Duarte |title=MEMÒRIA: CURS 2003-2004 |chapter=Membres emèrits: Secció de Ciències i Tecnologia: Pilar González Duarte |publisher=Institut d'Estudis Catalans |pages=101–03 |language=ca}}

File:Sessió inaugural del curs 2015-2016 de l'Institut d'Estudis Catalans (480p).webm|Inaugural session (2015–16) at the IEC

Awards and honours

In 2004, González i Duarte, while a member of the Department of Chemistry at UAB, received the Jaume Vicens Vives distinction awarded by the Government of Catalonia for university teaching quality, in recognition of her career and dedication to the renovation and readaptation of chemistry teaching.{{cite web |title=La UPF obté tres distincions Jaume Vicens Vives a la qualitat docent universitària |url=https://www.upf.edu/web/e-noticies/arxiu/-/asset_publisher/wEpPxsVRD6Vt/content/id/2462007/maximized |website=upf.edu |via=Arxiu de notícies |access-date=20 February 2023 |date=21 September 2004 |language=ca-ES}}{{cite web |last1=Vera |first1=Jordi |title=Els professors Pilar González i Josep Manel Casanova reben les Distincions Vicens Vives |url=https://govern.cat/salapremsa/notes-premsa/70475/professors-pilar-gonzalez-josep-manel-casanova-reben-distincions-vicens-vives |website=Govern.cat |access-date=20 February 2023 |language=ca |date=21 September 2004}}

Selected works

  • 2005, Les Mil cares de la taula periòdica

References