Emilia Teresa Julia Currás Puente (8 October 1927 – 29 March 2020) was a Spanish information scientist and academic.
She was born in Madrid on 8 October 1927 from Galician parents[1] Currás and her family lived through the Spanish Civil War in Alberic, Valencia.
She returned to Germany to become head of the Materials Analysis Laboratory of Linde AG (Köln-Suhn) in 1965, where she also enrolled at the Institute of Documentation in Frankfurt/Main, obtaining the title of Scientific Documentalist in 1966.
[3] In 1970 she left the private industry sector to join the Faculty of Sciences of the Autonomous University of Madrid and to direct the Scientific Documentation Office within the Department of Applied Chemistry-Physics.
Informationism is based on the paradigm of the universality of information, which is independent in itself as a scientific discipline, but which is systemically and vertically related to the other sciences.
[4][9] She did research on molten antimony tribromide as an ionizing solvent (the subject of her thesis) resulting in the discovery of five new compounds, which were registered in the Index Chemicus database.
[11] Her publications include:[11] Emilia Currás also wrote poetry, a passion she began at the age of 16, collected in three collections of poems: Fugitiva del tiempo, Del pasar y corre amor, En una tarde tibia[12] and El rincón de mis pensamientos.