Biography

Andrés George Weber y de Torres, Cuban odontologist (Guanabacoa, La Habana 31 December 1870 – La Habana 12 November 1950)

From German father

Authored over 300 scientific works between them Bibliographiae Stomatologicae (1922) and Bibliographia odontologica. Rev. Dent. Habana 10:321-32, 1917

His Bibliographia dentalis (1909) obtained gold medal in international congress of field at Berlin

Had the most complete classification of world’s odontological bibliography and some 20,000 items in dentistry

Founder, Federation Dentale Internationale (1900)

Received posthumously International Miller Prize, Federeation Dentale International (1952)