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In 1976 she founded the
Spanish Society for Scientific Information and Documentation (SEDIC) in 1976, and was its president for twelve years. She was a founding member of Hispano Term and ASEABI. She was also a member of the Council of the International Federation for Documentation (FID) for eight
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Her most notable contribution is the creation of the Theory of
Informationism and the Vertical Integration of Science, which appeared in 1981 and was accepted in 1988. Informationism was a new epistemology based on the neural theory of Information, or neural networks, where information reaches our
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She joined a private company in 1960, founding the
Chemistry and Technical Translation Section of Hanumag-Barreiros (Madrid), moving a year later to the company Auxini-Piritas Españolas as head of the Documentation Department until 1964. She returned to Germany to become head of the Materials
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According to Currás, this theory considers information as the axis of our life and as the motor of all neuronal and physical evolution of the human being; that is, the more useful information our brain receives, the greater our neuronal tissue will be, creating the beginning of the path of
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In this field, she was a pioneer in Spain and in many
Spanish-speaking countries. She introduced the concept of Documentation Sciences as a nucleus that housed the different disciplines related to the processes of information contained in a document so that it can reach the user quickly,
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qualification. As a result of her research in this field, she was awarded the title of
European Chemist by EURCHEN on several occasions. She was a member of the Ilustre Colegio Oficial de Química (1993) and belonged to the Real Sociedad de Químicos de España (1988).
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She published more than 130 research articles in
Spanish and foreign journals. She wrote 14 books and 7 as collective publications. Her work has been translated into English, Portuguese, Arabic and Czech, and has received more than 200 citations.
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She did research on molten antimony tribromide as an ionizing solvent (the subject of her thesis) resulting in the discovery of five new compounds, which were registered in the Index
Chemicus database. She obtained an Excellent
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Informationism is based on the paradigm of the universality of information, which is independent in itself as a scientific discipline, but which is systemically and vertically related to the other sciences.
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Analysis Laboratory of Linde AG (Köln-Suhn) in 1965, where she also enrolled at the Institute of Documentation in Frankfurt/Main, obtaining the title of Scientific Documentalist in 1966.
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and academic. She was also a philosopher and historian of science, as well as a pioneer in the study of the philosophical-scientific bases of Information and documentation.
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brain in the form of tiny impulses called quanta of information that impact our neurons, activating them and converting these quanta into useful information.
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where her mother worked as a teacher. In the middle of the 1940s, they returned to Madrid and Emilia Currás studied at the
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El devenir de ISKO-España hasta 1998. Actas del X Congreso de ISKO-España
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Gold and Brilliant Badge of the Association of Chemists of Madrid (2011).
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Gold Badge of the German Society of Information Scientists (DGI) (2002).
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secondary school. She graduated from Chemical Sciences at the
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Currás died on 29 March 2020 at the age of 92 in Madrid from
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to pursue doctoral studies, being invested as such in 1959.
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Information Science on Systemic and Systematic Postulates
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INFORMACIONISMO Y ASIMILACIÓN NEURONAL DE LA INFORMACIÓN
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development of civilization and culture of any people.
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Information in its New Aspects: Documentation Sciences
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Spanish information scientist and academic (1927–2020)
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