Curriculum

He studied Secondary Education in Santiago and Chemistry in Madrid, taking his degree in 1922. In 1923, he started to work as an assistant lecturer of Inorganic and Analytic Chemistry in the Faculty of Sciences at Santiago University. He attended doctorate courses in Zurich, coming back to Santiago University in 1933. When the Geochemistry Laboratory of Santiago de Compostela University was created, Isidro Parga started his investigations on Galicia and trained the first Spanish geochemists. In 1934, he finished his doctoral thesis at Madrid University. At the beginning of the Civil War, he was removed form his post as Professor and he retired to Laxe (A Coruña), where he created a mining company to exploit kaolin. Some years later, he installed there the Geological Laboratory of Laxe. In 1945, he collaborated with the Spanish Geologic and Mining Institute. In 1954, Leiden University collaborated with his programmes and so did Montpellier, Strasbourg, Zurich, Munster and Lisbon Universities shortly after. In 1962, he worked as a teacher at 'Lucas Malleda' Secondary School.