Title Jayme Tiomno : a life for science, a life for Brazil / William Dean Brewer, Alfredo Tiomno Tolmasquim

Published Cham : Springer, 2020

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Description 1 online resource Series Springer biographies Springer biographies. Contents Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1 Prologue -- 2 Growing Up -- Rio de Janeiro -- From Eastern Europe to the Tropics of South America -- Travels in the Interior of Brazil -- Muzambinho -- Back to the Capital -- 3 Student Days in Rio de Janeiro: Medicine Becomes Physics -- The Faculty of Medicine -- Two Majors, at One University -- Beginning Research and Graduate Work -- 4 A New World of Subatomic Particles: A Summary of the Physics -- How Nuclear Physics Began -- More and More Particles ... -- The Beta Decays -- A 'Nuclear Binding Force' -- The Quantum World The Fermi Four-Particle Current-Current Interaction -- 5 The Young Researcher -- Graduate Studies-Theoretical Physics in São Paulo -- Tiomno's Interlude in São Paulo-Encountering Modern Physics -- A Hasty Departure for Princeton -- 6 Princeton-In Pursuit of the Universal Fermi Interaction -- Princeton, 1948 -- Meson Physics with John Wheeler -- The Tiomno Triangle -- The Michigan Summer School -- Tiomno's Ph.D. Thesis -- Returning Home -- 7 Elisa -- Early Times -- University Years in Rio de Janeiro -- The Relationship with Jayme Tiomno -- First Research at the CBPF -- Life with Tiomno 8 The CBPF: In Pursuit of a Dream -- Return to São Paulo -- Early Plans and Dreams -- The Golden Age of the Centro -- 9 Research at the CBPF. Weak Interactions and Particles -- Back in Rio de Janeiro -- Fundamental Physics and Particles -- From the UFI to the Universal V-A Interaction -- The Moinho Santista Prize -- Feynman's Visits to Brazil, 1949-1966 -- The University of London -- 10 A New Decade: The Calm Before the Storm -- Academic Politics -- A New Particle -- The International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) -- Promoting Science Education -- Hard Times -- 11 A Utopian Academy A New University -- The Physics Institute -- The Beginning of the End -- The Collapse -- 12 The Military Regime. The 'Leaden Years'. Repression and Resistance -- A Nobel Prize for the Samba School -- Italy, 1966/67 -- Back to São Paulo -- Times of Turmoil -- Dark Times -- After the Dismissal -- 13 Exile-Princeton Once More: Gravitation and Field Theory -- Princeton Redux -- Wheeler's New School: Gravitation and Relativistic Astrophysics -- New Collaborations -- Work on Relativistic Astrophysics -- 14 PUC-The Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro -- PUC/Rio -- The 'PUC Quartet' A Harmonious Environment -- Science at PUC in the Late 1970s -- 15 The Amnesty-Return to the Centro -- The End of AI-5-Leaving PUC -- Back at the CBPF-Research in the 1980s -- The Physics of Special Relativity -- Strong Interactions Revisited -- Gravitation, Field Theory, and Cosmology -- The Weak-Interactions Interlude -- The 'Pará incident', 1986 -- Towards the End of the Decade -- 16 Researcher Emeritus-The 1990s -- Frontier Physics -- The Marcel Grossmann Meetings -- The Physics of Relativistic Rotating Systems -- Private Life -- 17 Conclusion-The New Century. A Life for Science Summary Jayme Tiomno (1920-2011) was one of the most influential Brazilian physicists of the 20th century, interacting with many of the renowned physicists of his time, including John Wheeler and Richard Feynman, Eugene Wigner, Chen Ning Yang, David Bohm, Murray Gell-Mann, Remo Ruffini, Abdus Salam, and many others. This biography tells the sometimes romantic, often discouraging but finally optimistic story of a dedicated scientist and educator from a developing country who made important contributions to particle physics, gravitation, cosmology and field theory, and to the advancement of science and of scientific education, in many institutions in Brazil and elsewhere. Drawing on unpublished documents from archives in Brazil and the US as well as private sources, the book traces Tiomno's long life, following his role in the establishment of various research facilities and his tribulations during the Brazilian military dictatorship. It presents a story of progress and setbacks in advancing science in Brazil and beyond, and of the persistence and dedication of a talented physicist who spent his life in search of scientific truth Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Tiomno, Jayme. SUBJECT Tiomno, Jayme fast Subject Physicists -- Brazil -- Biography Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory) History of science. Relativity physics. Science -- Nuclear Physics. Science -- History. Science -- Relativity. Science -- Physics. Physicists Gravitation History Particles (Nuclear physics) Physics Quantum field theory Brazil Genre/Form Biographies Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book Author Tolmasquim, Alfredo Tiomno ISBN 9783030410117 3030410110

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