# Piedad de la Cierva

> Piedad de la Cierva Viudes was a Spanish chemist whose research encompassed X-ray crystallography, artificial radioactivity, optics, and industrial materials. Trained during the Second Spanish Republic, she worked in the X-ray section of the Instituto Nacional de Física y Química and studied at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen. After the Spanish Civil War, she joined research organizations created or reorganized under the Franco regime. Her later work included antireflective coatings for optical instruments, the experimental production of optical glass in Spain, and insulating refractory materials made from rice-husk ash.

*Spanish scientist*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** Spain
- **Born:** 1913-06-01
- **Died:** 2007-12-31
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Piedad de la Cierva Viudes was a Spanish chemist whose research encompassed X-ray crystallography, artificial radioactivity, optics, and industrial materials. Trained during the Second Spanish Republic, she worked in the X-ray section of the Instituto Nacional de Física y Química and studied at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen. After the Spanish Civil War, she joined research organizations created or reorganized under the Franco regime. Her later work included antireflective coatings for optical instruments, the experimental production of optical glass in Spain, and insulating refractory materials made from rice-husk ash.

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