Abel Salazar (scientist)
Abel de Lima Salazar (19 July 1889, Guimarães - 29 December 1946, Lisbon), was a Portuguese physician, lecturer, researcher, writer and painter who worked and lived in Porto. He was the son of Adolfo Barroso Pereira Salazar (Guimarães, 20 October 1858 – Porto, 1 January 1941) and wife Adelaide da Luz da Silva e Lima (– Porto, 3 October 1929). Founded in 1975, the Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar (in English Abel Salazar Biomedical Sciences Institute), a research center and biosciences school of the University of Porto, was named after him. He was an anti-fascist and his painting with his social references anticipates the neo-realist movement in the Portuguese painting. Biography Life Work Scientific work Artistic work Drawings Paintings and sculpture Literary and philosophical work Museum External links Abel Salazar's Museum Virtual Tour Abel Salazar in Vidas Lusófonas Casa Museu Abel Salazar 1889 births 1946 deaths People from Guimarães Portuguese scientists Portuguese artists Portuguese male writers Portuguese anti-fascists University of Porto alumni 20th-century Portuguese painters 20th-century male artists Portuguese male painters