Carlos Aragone Salveraglio (1937 – 1994) was a Latin American physicist.
He was born in
Montevideo
Montevideo () is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Uruguay, largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 1,319,108 (about one-third of the country's total population) in an area of . M ...
,
Uruguay and studied at the
University of the Republic
The University of the Republic ( es, Universidad de la República, sometimes ''UdelaR'') is Uruguay's oldest public university. It is by far the country's largest university, as well as the second largest public university in South America and t ...
there. He then went to
Italy where he obtained his Laurea degree in 1967 working with
Carlo Cattaneo
Carlo Cattaneo (; 15 June 1801 – 6 February 1869) was an Italian philosopher, writer, and activist, famous for his role in the Five Days of Milan in March 1848, when he led the city council during the rebellion.
Early life
Cattaneo was born i ...
on Hamiltonian methods in
general relativity at the
University of Rome. He returned to Montevideo in 1968 and in collaboration with
Luis Saravia he modernized the old Institute of Physics at the University of the Republic and created an active research group in field theory and relativity. He was also instrumental in the creation of a regional committee on gravitational physics, the
COLARG, which led to a regular regional conference on gravitational physics, the
SILARG, the first one taking place in Montevideo in 1971. He also was instrumental in the consolidation of th
Latin American Center for PhysicsCLAF
, which supports research activities in the region. He was the president of the board of directors o
CLAF
from 1976 to 1985.
In 1971 in the wake of the coup d'état in Montevideo, he left for Venezuela to become a member of the at the time recently create
Universidad Simon Bolivar
in Sartenejas valley, Miranda state, near Caracas
Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the ...
. There he helped develop one of the most active physics departments
in research in Latin America at the time. With In List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1978, 1978 he was awarded with the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...
. From 1982 to 1985 Aragone was director of the Astronomical Research Center
CIDA
, located in Apartaderos in Merida State.
Carlos published 77 research papers in his career. He was one of the pioneers of the light front approach to gauge theories. His research also led him to consider higher spin theories, supergravity and general relativity. He also made important contributions in quantum optics where he introduced the notion of minimal-uncertainty states with angular momentum, the well-known intelligent spin states. He was the mentor of many Latin American Physicists.
Publications
A complete list of publications can be found
here
External links
* Universidad de la República (Uruguay), http://www.universidad.edu.uy/
* Universidad Simón Bolívar (USB), https://web.archive.org/web/20131113160625/http://www.usb.ve/
* Physics Department - USB, http://www.fis.usb.ve/
* Astronomical Research Center - Centro de Investigaciones de Astronomía (CIDA), https://web.archive.org/web/20120211202007/http://www.cida.gob.ve/cida_home/
* Latin American Center for Physics (CLAF), http://www.claffisica.org/
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1937 births
1994 deaths
Uruguayan people of Italian descent
People from Montevideo
Uruguayan expatriates in Venezuela
Uruguayan physicists
Venezuelan physicists