Abel Salazar (scientist)
Abel de Lima Salazar, was a Portuguese physician, lecturer, researcher, writer and painter who worked and lived in Porto. He was the son of Adolfo Barroso Pereira Salazar and wife Adelaide da Luz da Silva e Lima.
Founded in 1975, the Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, 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. He was not related to António de Oliveira Salazar, the Portuguese dictator.Biography
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