Jimena Fernández de la Vega dating history

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Jimena Fernández de la Vega y Lombán (June 3 1895 – May 20 1984) was a Spanish doctor, geneticist, professor, and one of the first women to earn a medical degree from a Galician university. She specialized in medical genetics and worked closely with prominent Spanish scientists including Roberto Nóvoa Santos [es], Gustavo Pittaluga, and Gregorio Marañón. She was also the first director of the Genetics and Constitution Section at the University of Madrid's Faculty of Medicine, which served as a gateway for the development of genetics in Spanish medicine. Alongside her twin sister Elisa, she is remembered as a trailblazer for women in Spanish higher education and medicine. Fernández de la Vega spent her later years as a "medical hydrologist," engaged in balneotherapy, becoming the first woman to serve as medical director of a spa in Spain. She died in 1984 in Santiago de Compostela and is buried in the cemetery of Boisaca.