Background
Lloréns Washington was born on November 28, 1899 in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
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Lloréns Washington was born on November 28, 1899 in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
Lloréns studied in elementary school in Arroyo and high school in Guayama. He attended Temple University Preparatory School in Philadelphia, where he earned a degree in Pharmacy and Chemistry in 1925.
Lloréns returned to Puerto Rico and became president of the Association of Chemists and the Puerto Rico Pharmacy Examining Board, director of the Revista Farmacéutica journal and co-editor of the Boletín del Colegio de Químicos. From 1943 through 1963, he worked for the federal government as a chemist in the Federal Laboratory of the Internal Revenue Service's Division of Alcohol and Tobacco Taxation, and then retired.
Lloréns was one of 50 Puerto Ricans included in the nineteenth edition of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language Dictionary. In 1960, the Spanish government named him Commander of the Order of Civil Merit. His 1954 short story "Montaña en flor" won a prize from the Coffee Producers Cooperative of Puerto Rico.
president
Puerto Rico Academy of Arts and Sciences
vice-president
Puerto Rico Society of Journalists and Writers
Puerto Rico Academy of the Spanish Language
corresponding member
Royal Spanish Academy of Language
president
Puerto Rico Institute of Hispanic Culture
secretary-treasurer
Pharmaceutical Association of Puerto Rico
