Pilar González i Duarte

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.

In this Catalan name, the first or paternal surname is González and the second or maternal family name is Duarte; both are generally joined by the conjunction "i".
Pilar González i Duarte
Born1945
Barcelona, Spain
Alma materAutonomous University of Barcelona
AwardsJaume Vicens i Vives award (2004)
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsAutonomous University of Barcelona
Doctoral advisorEnric Casassas i Simó

Early life and education

Pilar González i Duarte was born in Barcelona, 1945.[1] 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.[1]

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,[2] 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 Societat Catalana de Química (Catalan Society of Chemistry), from where she promoted a new updated version of the Periodic table in Catalan.[3] In 2000, she curated a traveling exhibition inaugurated at mNACTEC, with the title Todo es química (Everything is chemistry).[4]

  • 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.[5][6]

Selected works
  • 2005, Les Mil cares de la taula periòdica

References
  1. ""Any internacional de la taula periòdica": Pilar González Duarte". Octubre Centre de Cultura Contemporània (in Catalan). 10 April 2019. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  2. Novio Vázquez, Fernando. "Síntesis y reactividad de complejos que continen los fragmentos Pt-S y/o Pt-H: Aplicación a reacción de desulfuración del tiofeno" (PDF). tdx.cat (in Spanish).
  3. "Pilar González Duarte – Els elements químics – 13/11/13". Tertúlies de Literatura Científica (in Catalan). 15 July 2013. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  4. González i Duarte, Pilar. "Membres emèrits: Secció de Ciències i Tecnologia: Pilar González Duarte". MEMÒRIA: CURS 2003-2004 (PDF) (in Catalan). Institut d'Estudis Catalans. pp. 101–03.
  5. "La UPF obté tres distincions Jaume Vicens Vives a la qualitat docent universitària". upf.edu (in Catalan). 21 September 2004. Retrieved 20 February 2023 – via Arxiu de notícies.
  6. Vera, Jordi (21 September 2004). "Els professors Pilar González i Josep Manel Casanova reben les Distincions Vicens Vives". Govern.cat (in Catalan). Retrieved 20 February 2023.
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