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The SBF was founded on July 14, 1966. The founding act took place during the XVIII Annual Meeting of the SBPC in Blumenau (Santa Catarina - SC) and was led by José Goldemberg, at the time the secretary of the Physics Commission of the SBPC Meeting. The SBF’s first president was Oscar Sala. The Society is located in the city of São Paulo.
Since its foundation, the SBF has organized national meetings in all fields of physics, either annually or biennially.
The Brazilian Physics Society publishes three journals:
Brazilian Journal of Physics (since 1971)
Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física (since 1979) - an open access journal devoted to the improvement of Physics teaching at all academic levels – mainly in Portuguese
A Física na Escola (since 2000) - a journal in Portuguese with focus on Physics teaching
and an electronic weekly Bulletin with physics news. The Society has also published several books and studies about the history and evolution of Physics in Brazil. From 1995 to 2006 the SBF has published the Revista de Física Aplicada e Instrumentação.
Since 2014, SBF coordinates the Professional Master’s Degree in Physics Education (Mestrado Nacional Profissional em Ensino de Física - MNPEF, in Portuguese), an initiative devoted to improving the training of elementary and high school teachers in all regions of Brazil.
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The Society organizes the Brazilian Physics Olympiad (Olimpíada Brasileira de Física - OBF, in Portuguese) and the Brazilian Physics Olympiad in Public Schools (Olimpíada Brasileira de Física nas Escolas Públicas – OBFEP, in Portuguese), activities that involve about 265,000 students every year.
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