Álvaro Alberto da Mota e Silva
Brazilian vice admiral and scientist (1889–1976)
Álvaro Alberto da Motta e Silva (22 April 1889 – 31 January 1976), was a Brazilian vice admiral and scientist, responsible for the implementation of the Brazilian nuclear program in the 1940s and 1950s.2
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Born Apr 22, 1889, died Jan 31, 1976.1
About
Álvaro Alberto is considered the most prominent name of the national science focused on nuclear physics, serving as President of the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission between 1946 and 1947, and as President of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences for two terms, from 1935 to 1937 and 1949–51.
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Companies
- Brazilian Academy of SciencesChair 1949 to 19518
- Brazilian Academy of SciencesChair 1935 to 19378
Career
Occupation: scientist.4
- 1949 to 1951Chair, Brazilian Academy of Sciences3
- 1935 to 1937Chair, Brazilian Academy of Sciences3
Son of a doctor and politician, he joined the Brazilian Naval School in 1906. He became involved in the Revolt of the Lash in 1910, being the first officer to be seriously injured on the night of 22 November. Álvaro Alberto joined the Polytechnic School in 1911, after becoming interested in the science of explosives.
In 1916, he served in the position of teacher of chemistry and explosives at the Naval School, including the study of nuclear physics in his curriculum in the year of 1939. During his career at the Polytechnic School, he invented rupturite and alexandrinite explosives and polyvalent anti-fouling paints.
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