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Sagrario Martínez Carrera (Madrid, 10 May 1925 - Ibidem., 18 December 2011) was an Spanish chemist.

Biography
In 1948 she graduated with a degree in Chemistry from the Complutense University of Madrid and in 1955 she obtained a doctorate. She was a Research Professor at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), working in the Department of Crystallography at the Instituto de Química Física 'Rocasolano' in Madrid from 1950. This Department can be considered the heir of the X-ray Section formed by Julio Palacios in 1948 at the Alonso Santa Cruz Institute. She carried out postdoctoral stays at the University of Amsterdam.

In 1962 she entered the University of Pittsburg, in the United States, where she learned electronic calculus, which she perfected on her return to Madrid and which allowed her to make progress in the study of crystalline structures. She was a member of the Spanish Group of Crystallography and Crystal Growth, of the Spanish Committee of Crystallography. She also worked for the International Union of Crystallography, and in 1956 she co-organised the first international meeting of this society in Madrid.

In 1974 she did important work in organising an international conference on Anomalous Dispersion. It was attended by leading scientists such as Dorothy Hodgkin, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1964, Paul P. Ewald and Rudolf Mössbauer among others.

She played a fundamental role in the introduction of computer programming in crystallography in Spain. The importance of her scientific work has been recognised by international authors, being cited in ‘Women of Science, Righting the Record’, edited by Gabriele Kass-Simon, Patricia Farnes and Deborah Nash, and in ‘Notable Women Scientists’, edited by Pamela Proffitt.

She carried out management tasks and played an important role in the organisation of the CSIC, and was a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee.