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Juan Jose Nágera Ezcurra (Gualeguaychú, 22 May, 1887 - Buenos Aires 9 October, 1966) was an Argentine geologist, ecologist and professor.

Biography
Nágera attended middle school at the first secular school in Argentina, the Colegio Nacional de Concepción del Uruguay.

He was the second geologist to graduate from a university in Argentina, and had an important role in the theoretical basis for considering the national jurisdiction over the continental shelf of the country to be important, especially with the goal of obtaining resources like petroleum from it. He defended his thesis about Sierra Bayas at the UBA, and obtained a Carlos Berg prize.

He was the founder and first president of the Argentine Geological Association. He also founded the Argentine Society of Geographic Studies and the Ornithological Society of La Plata with other scientists of his generation.

Throughout his life, Nágera published various popular science articles in Argentine papers and journals. He was a professor at the National University of La Plata and the University of Buenos Aires.

Publications

 * 1945. Puntas de Santa María del Buen Aire. Buenos Aires Notebooks IV. 32 pp.


 * 1938. Geografía física de las Américas y de la República argentina ... With Oscar Manito. Kapelusz Editorial, 2nd edition, 467 pp.


 * 1938. Geografía física de la República Argentina... Editor A. Kapelusz. 233 pp.


 * 1936. Puntas de Santa María del Buen Aire: lugar de la fundación de Don Pedro de Mendoza: Meditaciones geológicas. Editor F.A. Colombo, 40 pp.


 * 1926. Atlas de la República Argentina. Editor Talleres Gráf. Colombatti. 38 pp.


 * 1917. La Sierra de "las dos Hermanas". Editor Coni. 5 pp.

Honors

 * Academic

“Que el trépano toque y se hunda en Gualeguaychulia” ("May the trepan touch and sink in Gualeguaychú") is one of the phrases written on his monument that still resounds.
 * Buenos Aires National Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences
 * National Academy of Sciences of Argentina
 * Monument in the "Unzué Park" of his birth city "“Que el trépano toque y se hunda en Gualeguaychulia” ('May the trepan touch and sink in Gualeguaychú') is one of the phrases written on his monument that still resounds."

Toponymy

 * Barrio Juan José Nagera: of Parque Avellaneda


 * Secondary School 24 Juan José Nágera, Gualeguaychú