Género, afición y mérito: una biografía de Sara Borrell Ruiz

This article studies the research work done by Sara Borrell Ruiz. It includes her participation in the history of scientific research in Spain while appealing to her recognition as a scientist in chemistry, biology and biomedicine —nutrition and sexual hormones— among the most rewarding for her and that provided her academic and medical recognition. This reconstruction shows a research space during Franco dictatorship articulated around the life of a woman with scientific ambitions that took advantage of every opportunity to be trained, to widen her knowledge and reorient her scientific interests. By focusing on the role played by her ambitions and merits in the construction of her identity as a scientist and as a woman, the biographical proposal aspires to retrieve for the history of the sciences in Spain both woman’s names and their research work.