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The scholarship honors the Spanish inventor Juan de la Cierva. It started back in 2004 with 350 annual scholarships, [3] and it has been awarded every year since then, to date (January 2023). [4] It has provided 2 to 3 years of funding, depending on its modalities, which have varied over time. [1] [5]
Together with the more junior Juan de la Cierva scholarship, it is the most prestigious nationally-funded research scholarship to follow a scientific career in Spain. [2] In fact, it is considered the main talent attraction strategy [3] for Spain to counteract its scientific brain drain. [4]
Juan de la Cierva y Codorníu, 1st Count of la Cierva ([ˈxwan de la ˈθjeɾβaj koðoɾˈni.u]; 21 September 1895 – 9 December 1936), was a Spanish civil engineer, pilot and a self-taught aeronautical engineer.
He is the founder and director of the Optics Lab at Murcia University [1] and received the Spanish National Research award "Juan de la Cierva" and the Rey Jaime I Award for New Technologies in 2015. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] His main research topics are the optics of the eye and the retina and the development of optical and electronic imaging techniques in ...
The Cierva Autogiro Company was a British firm established in 1926 to develop the autogyro. The company was set up to further the designs of Juan de la Cierva , a Spanish engineer and pilot, with the financial backing of James George Weir , a Scottish industrialist and aviator.
President Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton said during an interview that some of the proposed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts could hurt “long-term American ...
The State Department on Friday announced a $7 billion arms sale to Israel, circumventing the congressional review process, according to Rep. Gregory Meeks, the ranking member of top Democrat on ...
The Cierva C.6 was the sixth autogyro designed by engineer Juan de la Cierva, and the first one to travel a "major" distance. Cierva, the engineer responsible for the invention of the autogyro, had spent all his funds on the research and creation of his first five prototypes.