The National Fuel Institute of the CSIC. Part 2. Consolidation and disappearance

Abstract

This series of two articles on the historical evolution of the National Fuel Institute is completed with an analysis of the period 1947-65. Part 2 begins by reporting on the construction of facilities and buildings for the different centers in Zaragoza, Madrid and Oviedo around 1950. It shows the existence of unused scientific precedents in Oviedo, as well as a project to create a section in León that was never implemented. The role of the National Fuel Institute as coordinator of activities and its disappearance in 1965, becoming the National Institute of Coal and its Derivatives, with headquarters in Oviedo and laboratories in Oviedo and Zaragoza, are examined.