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Last Saturday, 21st April, the ceremony of unveiling the plaque bearing the name "Assumpció Català" to the Eixample backyard Comte Borrell 305 took place. The astronomer Assumpció Català i Poch, professor of the University of Barcelona between 1953 and 1990, was the first woman numerary professor astronomer in a Spanish university
The ceremony was organised by the District of Eixample of the Barcelona City Council and it included a biographical presentation of Assumpció Cataalà by the Deputy Director of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the UB (ICCUB), Francesca Figueras. During the ceremony a plaque bearing the name of the pedagog Carme Aymerich was also unveiled.
The ceremony was organised by the District of Eixample of the Barcelona City Council and it included a biographical presentation of Assumpció Cataalà by the Deputy Director of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the UB (ICCUB), Francesca Figueras. During the ceremony a plaque bearing the name of the pedagog Carme Aymerich was also unveiled.
On the occasion of this ceremony the Centre Cívic Urgell shows the exhibition "Telescopi Assumpció Català" from 4th to 27th April. Francesca Figueras guided a visit around the exhibition after the ceremony.
Video of the ceremony
