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List Of University Of São Paulo Faculty
This is a list of professors from the University of São Paulo. * Aziz Ab'Saber * Vahan Agopyan * Ana Fani Alessandri Carlos * Paul Arbousse-Bastide * Robert Henri Aubreton (he also received an honorary degree) * Roger Bastide * Fernand Braudel * David Bohm * Antonio Candido * Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former President of Brazil * Paulo C. Chagas * François Châtelet * João Cruz Costa * Newton da Costa * Sérgio Buarque de Holanda * Jean Dieudonné * Alessandro Donati * Luigi Fantappiè * Clóvis de Barros Filho * Henrique Fleming * Vilém Flusser * Luciano da Fontoura Costa * Johann Julius Gottfried Ludwig Frank or Julius Frank (1834–1841) * Giorgio Eugenio Oscare Giacaglia * Ernesto Giesbrecht * Victor Goldschmidt * Gilles Gaston Granger * Ada Pellegrini Grinover * Martial Guéroult * Ernst Wolfgang Hamburger * Heinrich Hauptman * Felix Hegg * Heinz Dieter Heidemann * Iacov Hillel * Paul Hugon * István Jancsó * Warwick Kerr * Bernardo Kucinski * César Lattes * Gé ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of São Paulo
The University of São Paulo ( pt, Universidade de São Paulo, USP) is a public university in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. It is the largest Brazilian public university and the country's most prestigious educational institution, the best university in Ibero-America, and holds a high reputation among world universities, being ranked 100 worldwide in reputation by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. The USP is involved in teaching, research and university extension in all areas of knowledge, offering a broad range of courses. The university was founded in 1934, regrouping already existing schools in the state of São Paulo, such as the Faculdade de Direito do Largo de São Francisco (Faculty of Law), the Escola Politécnica (Engineering School) and the Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (College of Agriculture). The university's foundation is marked by the creation in 1934 of the Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras (Faculty of Philoso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Goldschmidt (philosopher)
Victor Goldschmidt (1914 – 25 September 1981) was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy. Born in Germany, he came to France in 1933. Before the war he studied at the Sorbonne and at the École pratique des hautes études under Henri Marguerite. Goldschmidt "made his name with the publication of his thesis, ''Les Dialogues de Platon'', in 1947", for which Martial Gueroult was among the members of his examining committee.Jacques Brunschwig, 'Goldschmidt and Gueroult: Some Facts, Some Enigmas', ''Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie'', vol. 8, issue 1 (2006), pp.82-106. He taught at the University of Rennes from 1956 to 1966, then at Clermont-Ferrand from 1966 to 1976 and finally in Amiens until his death. The manuscript of Goldschmidt's book on Aristotle's views of time was delivered to the editor on the eve of his death. A volume was published in his memory as ''Histoire et Structure'' (1985). Though Goldschmidt is often considered a disciple of Martial Guerou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milton Santos
Milton Almeida dos Santos (May 3, 1926 – June 24, 2001) was a Brazilian geographer and geography scholar who had a degree in law. He became known for his pioneering works in several branches of geography, notably urban development in developing countries. He is considered the father of critical geography in Brazil. Santos was a recipient of the Vautrin Lud Prize, often seen as geography's equivalent of the Nobel Prize, and a posthumous recipient of the Prêmio Anísio Teixeira, awarded every five years by the Brazilian agency for the improvement of higher education personnel to distinguished contributors to research and development in Brazil. Biography Santos was born in Brotas de Macaúbas, Bahia, Brazil on May 3, 1926. His parents were elementary school teachers who home-schooled him. His Black paternal grandfather had been formerly enslaved. By the time Santos was eight, he was through with his elementary education. From 1934 to 1936, he lived in Alcobaça, where he went ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anatol Rosenfeld
Anatol Rosenfeld (28 August 1912 – 11 December 1973) was a German-Brazilian philosopher and art critic. In 1937, as a Jew fleeing Nazism, Anatol Rosenfeld emigrated to Brazil and died there, in 1973. In Brazil, Rosenfeld is a noted scholar for his work on Bertold Brecht and epic theater. He taught in the University of São Paulo The University of São Paulo ( pt, Universidade de São Paulo, USP) is a public university in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. It is the largest Brazilian public university and the country's most prestigious educational institution, the best ... from 1962 to his death. Sources * * 1912 births 1973 deaths German art critics Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to Brazil 20th-century Brazilian philosophers Jewish Brazilian writers Jewish philosophers University of São Paulo faculty German male non-fiction writers {{Brazil-philosopher-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Décio Pignatari
Décio Pignatari (August 20, 1927 – December 2, 2012) was a Brazilian poet, essayist and translator. Early life and education Born in Jundiaí in 1927, Pignatari began conducting experiments with poetic language, incorporating visuals elements and the fragmentation of words in the 1950s. Such verbal adventures culminated in concretism, aesthetic movement that he co-founded with Augusto and Haroldo de Campos, with whom he edited the journals ''Noigandres'' and ''Invention'' and published the ''Theory of Concrete Poetry'' (1965). Career As a theorist of communication and semiotics, Pignatari translated works of Marshall McLuhan and published the essay ''Information, Language and Communication'' (1968). His poetic work can also be read in ''Poesia Pois é Poesia'' (''Poetry because it's Poetry'') (1977). Pignatari published translations of Dante Alighieri, Goethe and Shakespeare, among others, gathered in ''Portrait of Love when Young'' (1990) and ''231 poems''. He al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Occhialini
Giuseppe Paolo Stanislao "Beppo" Occhialini ForMemRS (; 5 December 1907 – 30 December 1993) was an Italian physicist who contributed to the discovery of the pion or pi-meson decay in 1947 with César Lattes and Cecil Frank Powell, the latter winning the Nobel Prize in Physics for this work. At the time of this discovery, they were all working at the H. H. Wills Laboratory of the University of Bristol. The X-ray satellite SAX was named BeppoSAX in his honour after its launch in 1996. Biography His father was the physicist Raffaele Augusto Occhialini (1878–1951), a pioneer in the fields of spectroscopy and electronics theory. Giuseppe Paolo Stanislao Occhialini graduated at Florence in 1929. In 1932, he collaborated in the discovery of the positron in cosmic rays at the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge, under the leadership of Patrick Blackett, using cloud chambers. He returned in Italy in 1934, where he suffered from the political climate generated by fascism. Thus, fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Eduardo Martins (pianist)
José Eduardo Gandra da Silva Martins, born 1938, is a Brazilian concert pianist. Career He began his career with a performance at the Colombo Theater in São Paulo on December 10, 1954, which included contemporary works by Dmitri Shostakovich. Martins was Professor at the university of São Paulo between 1982-2007. He recorded several albums with compositions by Henrique Oswald, including his cello sonatas No. 1 and No. 2, Piano Quartet No. 2 and Piano Quintet. He commissioned works from the composer Gilberto Mendes including ''Um Estudo? Eisler e Webern Caminham nos Mares do Sul''. Honours * Officer in the Order of the Crown, by royal decree of King Albert II. * Doctor Honoris Causa University Constantin Brâncuşi * Order of Rio Branco The Order of Rio Branco (''Ordem de Rio Branco'') is an honorific order of Brazil instituted by decree 51.697 of February 5, 1963. It is named in honor of the Brazilian diplomat José Paranhos, Baron of Rio Branco. The President ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss (, ; 28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. He held the chair of Social Anthropology at the Collège de France between 1959 and 1982, was elected a member of the Académie française in 1973 and was a member of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. He received numerous honors from universities and institutions throughout the world. Lévi-Strauss argued that the "savage" mind had the same structures as the "civilized" mind and that human characteristics are the same everywhere. These observations culminated in his famous book ''Tristes Tropiques'' (1955) that established his position as one of the central figures in the structuralist school of thought. As well as sociology, his ideas reached into many fields in the humanities, including philosophy. Structuralism has been defined as "the sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
César Lattes
Cesare Mansueto Giulio Lattes (11 July 1924 – 8 March 2005), also known as César Lattes, was a Brazilian experimental physicist, one of the discoverers of the pion, a composite subatomic particle made of a quark and an antiquark. Life Lattes was born to a family of Italian immigrants in Curitiba, Paraná Brazil. He did his first studies there and also in São Paulo. He then went to the University of São Paulo, graduating in 1943, in mathematics and physics. He was part of an initial group of young Brazilian physicists who worked under European teachers such as Gleb Wataghin and Giuseppe Occhialini. Lattes was considered the most brilliant of those and was noted at a very young age as a bold researcher. His colleagues, who also became important Brazilian scientists, were Oscar Sala, Mário Schenberg, Roberto Salmeron, Marcelo Damy de Souza Santos and Jayme Tiomno. At the age of 25, he was one of the founders of the Brazilian Center for Physical Research (''Centro Brasileir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernardo Kucinski
Bernardo Kucinski (born 1937, in São Paulo) is a Brazilian journalist and political scientist, professor at the University of São Paulo, and collaborator with Brazil's Workers' Party. He served as advisor to the President of the Republic during the first term of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Education Kucinski graduated in Physics at the University of São Paulo (USP) between 1967 and 1968. He returned in 1986 and joined the staff of the USP School of Communications and Arts. In 1991, he earned a Ph.D. in Communication Sciences from the University of São Paulo, with a thesis on alternative media in Brazil during the period, 1964-1980. Career Journalist and publisher Bernardo Kucinski is one of the most experienced and respected journalists in the current Brazilian scene. Although he graduated in Physics, he entered journalism with the encouragement of Raimundo Pereira, a friend. By force of circumstances (in this case, the military regime that governed the country), he mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warwick Kerr
Warwick Estevam Kerr (9 September 1922 – 15 September 2018) was a Brazilian agricultural engineering, agricultural engineer, geneticist, entomologist, professor and scientific leader, notable for his discoveries in the genetics and Sex-determination system, sex determination of bees. The Africanized bee in the western hemisphere is directly descended from 26 Tanzanian queen bees (African bee, ''Apis mellifera scutellata'') accidentally released by a replacement bee-keeper in 1957 in Rio Claro, São Paulo in the southeast of Brazil from hives operated by Kerr, who had interbred honey bees from Europe and southern Africa. Biography Kerr was born in 1922 in Santana do Parnaíba, São Paulo (state), São Paulo, Brazil, the son of Américo Caldas Kerr and Bárbara Chaves Kerr. The Kerr family immigrated by way of the United States. His family is originally from Scotland. The family moved to Pirapora do Bom Jesus, São Paulo, in 1925. He attended secondary school and the preparatory c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Wolfgang Hamburger
Ernst Wolfgang Hamburger (8 June 1933 – 4 July 2018) was a German-born Brazilian physicist and popularizer of science. Hamburger was internationally known for his activities regarding public understanding of science. He was the director of Estação Ciência, an interactive science museum in São Paulo. He won the UNESCO Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science, the José Reis Award for the Divulgation of Science, the medal of the Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit, and was a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. Biography Born in Berlin on 8 June 1933, Hamburger fled from the Nazis with his parents to Brazil when he was three years old. He studied physics at the University of São Paulo and joined its faculty (Institute of Physics) soon after his graduation, in 1960, and retired as a full professor of physics. Hamburger was married to Amélia I. Hamburger (d. 2011), also a physicist and colleague at the university. They had five children. One of them, Cao Ham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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