Gleb Wataghin
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– October 10, 1986, Turin
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); was a Ukrainian
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experimental physicist
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and a great scientific leader who gave a great impulse to the teaching and research on physics in two continents: in the University of São Paulo
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; and in the University of Turin
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, Italy
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.
Wataghin was hired in 1934 to found with other European physicists the Department of Physics of the recently founded University of São Paulo. There, he was the tutor of a brilliant group of young physicists, such as César Lattes
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, Oscar Sala
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, Mário Schenberg
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, Roberto Salmeron
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, Marcelo Damy de Souza Santos
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and Jayme Tiomno
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. The Institute of Physics of the State University of Campinas, in Campinas
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, Brazil, was named in his honour, as well as a prize in Physics.
He was awarded the Antonio Feltrinelli Prize
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in 1951 and was national member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, from 1960.
Selected bibliography
- Wataghin, G. On the Formation of Chemical Elements Inside the Stars. Phys. Rev. 73, 79 (1948).
- Wataghin, G. Thermal Equilibrium Between Elementary Particles. Phys. Rev. 63, 137 (1943).
External links
- Predazzi, Ernesto: Gleb Wataghin. Brazilian Society of Physics (in Portuguese)
- Salmeron, Roberto A. Gleb Wataghin. Revista Estudos Avançados. Vol. 16, Jan./Apr. 2002. (In Portuguese)