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He studied in the [[El Pilar College]], an exclusive Catholic secondary school, before going to [[Complutense University]] (UCM). There as a student in [[1963]] he was sanctioned by the authorities for having organised an opposition forum at the so-called called Week of University Renovation.
In [[1964]] he clandestinely joined the [[Spanish Socialist Workers' Party]] (PSOE), which had been illegal under Franco since the end of the [[Spanish Civil War]] in [[1939]]. In the same year he graduated and then spent a year furthering his studies at [[Spain's Higher Council for Scientific Research]] (CSIC) and in the [[United Kingdom]]. In [[1965]] he went to the [[United States of America]], where he spent six years studying at various universities on a [[Fulbright Program|Fulbright Scholarship]].
He taught physics for a time at the [[University of Chicago]] and at [[La Jolla, California|La Jolla]], [[California]], and joined in the [[protests]] against the [[Vietnam War]]
He received his doctorate in physics with a dissertation on [[Superfluid|superfluidity]] called ''Elementary Excitations in [[Helium]] 2'', in [[1968]] from the from the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences of the [[University of Virginia|University]] of [[Notable Alumni of the University of Virginia|Virginia]], where he taught and researched until [[1971]], extending his planned stay in the US by a year in order to continue his investigations as well as being President of the Association of foreign students.
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