Background
SALAS EDWARDS, Ramón was born on July 31, 1880 in Santiago. Son of José Rafael Salas Errázuriz and Ventura Edwards de Salas.
SALAS EDWARDS, Ramón was born on July 31, 1880 in Santiago. Son of José Rafael Salas Errázuriz and Ventura Edwards de Salas.
Educated Colegio de San Ignacio, 1892-1897, Institute Nacional, 1898, University de Chile, 18991903, the Sorbonne, Paris, 1909, studied in the United States, 1913, College de France, 1921-1922. Dr. honoris causa, University of Padua, 1922.
Engineer of the Santiago sewerage and water systems, 1904-1906. Professor of infinitesimal analysis in the Catholic University of Santiago, 1904-1927. Professor of rational mechanics in the same since 1904.
Professor of general hydraulics in the same, 1910- 1919. Dean of the Faculty of Sciences of the same, 1918-1921. Engineer of Puerto de San Antonio, 1907-1908.
Charged by the government with a technical mission in Europe, 1909. Engineer of Lago de Yeso, 1910-1912. Delegate of the Chilean universities to the Pan-American Scientific Congress of Washington, 1915.
To the Congress of Padua, 1922. To the Peruvian universities, 1933. Professor of rational mechanics in the University of Chile since 1924.
Member of the University Council of the same, 1927.
Instituto de Ingenieros (director since 1924). Société Scientifique of Brussels. Academia de Ciencias of Madrid.
American Mathematical Society. Sociedad Matemática Española. Sociedad Geográfica of Lima.
Club de la Unión of Santiago. Club Hípico of Santiago. Club de Viña del March.
Married Teresa Valdés. Children: Alfonso, Teresa, Fernando, Ramón, and Matilde.