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Advance in fat research in Spain during the last fifty years
Author(s) -
Moreno J. M. Martinez
Publication year - 1959
Publication title -
journal of the american oil chemists' society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.512
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1558-9331
pISSN - 0003-021X
DOI - 10.1007/bf02639624
Subject(s) - economic shortage , work (physics) , scope (computer science) , point (geometry) , isolation (microbiology) , field (mathematics) , sociology of scientific knowledge , political science , history , sociology , engineering ethics , social science , engineering , computer science , mechanical engineering , government (linguistics) , philosophy , mathematics , linguistics , geometry , microbiology and biotechnology , pure mathematics , biology , programming language
Conclusion This summary is necessarily a subjective apraisal, and there may be errors or omissions, for which we apologize. The major point is that Spanish research work in the field of fats (and the same applies to many other fields) has always relied on outstanding figures, who possessed original ideas and developed them within possibilities, which were not indeed always very great. The shortage of material means and the isolation of the few existing research workers made our contribution necessarily small, compared with the work of the rest of the world, which brought about scientific knowledge on fats that we now possess. The almost exclusive concentration on problems connected with olive oil has also greatly limited our scope and also limited the knowledge of Spanish research work abroad. For some years Spain has been launched on a program of complete renewal, both in this field and in other fields of scientific research, and is at present making a great effort to co‐ordinate and increase the material and human resources available for the study of fats. Too little time has passed for the results of this effort to be evaluated, except in a few isolated cases, but we are working enthusiastically. And if we are able in 25 years to attend the Diamond Jubilee of the illustrious American Oil Chemists' Society, we hope we shall be able to report a greater amount of work and more results of real scientific importance than those to which I have drawn your attention.