Margarida Comas Camps was perhaps the most important Spanish scientist of the first third of the 20th century. As well as a scientist, she was an educator, painter, feminist and anti-fascist activist, and a great advocate of educational innovation. She became one of the first women to earn a degree and a doctorate in natural sciences in Spain. During the Republic, she was a member of the teaching commissions in Catalonia, and in 1933 was secretary of the Regional Council of Secondary Education, where she was the only woman. During the Civil War she left for England, commissioned by the University of Barcelona to carry out anti-fascist propaganda work, and later ended up supervising the education of more than 4,000 Basque refugee children in the United Kingdom. There is a garden in Barcelona that bears the name Margarita Comas i Camps, a memorial and tribute to her. The Mundet Campus of the University of Barcelona, the nerve centre of the educational sciences, includes the Faculty of Pedagogy, the Faculty of Teacher Training and the Faculty of Psychology.
A pedagogue, scientist, painter and feminist and anti-fascist activist, she was commissioned by the University of Barcelona in England, where she oversaw the education of more than 4,000 Spanish children who were refugees in the United Kingdom.