Date of granting: 27 may 1997.
By proposal of: Department of Morphological Sciences.
Date of deliverance: 15 september 1997.
Juan José Barcia Goyanes (Santiago de Compostela, 1901 - Valencia, 2003).
He was an anatomist doctor, pioneer in Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery in Spain, Dean and Principal in Valencia, Spanish writer and humanist.
Graduated from the University of Valencia, he was member of the fifth generation of Doctors, most of them university professors dedicated to the culture of neurological sciences.
He finished the degree in 1922 receiving the Rodríguez Abaytúa Prize of the Royal Academy of Medicine to the best record of the country.
Scientific work:
•Los fundamentos científicos de la anatomía: la vida, el sexo y la herencia (Scientific foundaments of the anatomy: life, sex and herdity). (1928)
•Los tumores cerebrales (The brain tumors). (1941)
•La nómina anatómica de Jena (INA): y su concordancia con la nomenclatura anatómica usada en España (The Jena Nomina Anatomica(JNA): and its correspondence with the anatomical nomenclature used in Spain)(1948)
•Onomatología anatómica nova: historia del lenguaje anatómico. (Nova anatomical onotomatology: history of the anatomical language)(1978)
•Las correcciones de Vesalio a la Anatomía de Galeno. (Vesalius’ corrections to the Galenus’ Anatomy)(1980)
•El mito de Vesalio. (Vesalius’ myth)(1994)
•Cinc segles i un dia. (Five centuries and one day)(2000)
Literary work:
•Canto de Cisne (Swan Song). (1995)
•Como el eco (Like the echo) (2001)
Sources: Juan José Barcia Goyanes
