José García Santesmases

José García Santesmases (May 2, 1907 to October 24, 1989) was a Spanish physicist born in Barcelona, regarded as the pioneer of computer science in Spain. After an engineering degree from the École Supérieure d'Électricité in Paris in 1930 and a physics degree from the University of Barcelona in 1935, he earned his doctorate at the University of Madrid in 1943 and later held its chair of industrial physics until his retirement in 1977. Following a 1949 research stay at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge and a fellowship in Howard H. Aiken's computation laboratory at Harvard, he built Spain's first analog computer and went on to build the first microprocessor made in Spain. The computer museum at Complutense University of Madrid, the Museo de Informática García Santesmases, bears his name.