Overview
- A fascinating biography of a talented and influential Brazilian physicist
- Recounts Tiomno's many interactions with John Wheeler, Richard Feynman and other well-known contemporaries
- Provides new insights into the early development of Weak Interactions and Gravitation Theory
- Explores the radical changes Tiomno brought to physics education in Brazil and elsewhere
Part of the book series: Springer Biographies (SPRINGERBIOGS)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Physics Education in Brazil
- History of Physics in Brazil
- Feynman in Brazil
- Weak interactions
- Muon Physics
- John A. Wheeler
- Meson resonances
- Biography of Jayme Tiomno
- Brazilian Center for Physics Research
- Muon decay
- Tiomno-Wheeler triangle
- Universal Fermi Interaction
- electron-muon relationship
- Why teach physics Tiomno
About this book
Jayme Tiomno (1920-2011) was one of the most influential Brazilian physicists of the 20th century, interacting with many of the renowned physicists of his time, including John Wheeler and Richard Feynman, Eugene Wigner, Chen Ning Yang, David Bohm, Murray Gell-Mann, Remo Ruffini, Abdus Salam, and many others.
This biography tells the sometimes romantic, often discouraging but finally optimistic story of a dedicated scientist and educator from a developing country who made important contributions to particle physics, gravitation, cosmology and field theory, and to the advancement of science and of scientific education, in many institutions in Brazil and elsewhere. Drawing on unpublished documents from archives in Brazil and the US as well as private sources, the book traces Tiomno's long life, following his role in the establishment of various research facilities and his tribulations during the Brazilian military dictatorship. It presents a story of progress and setbacks in advancing science in Brazil and beyond, and of the persistence and dedication of a talented physicist who spent his life in search of scientific truth.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
William Dean Brewer: born 1943 in the USA. Educated in Chemistry and Mathematics at Univ. Oregon (Eugene), PhD in Physical Chemistry at Univ. California (Berkeley). Postdoctoral work in Physics at the Freie Universität Berlin and in Orsay, France. Habilitation in experimental physics at the FU Berlin, later university professor there. Research in nuclear and solid-state physics, magnetism on surfaces and in thin films. Visiting scientist at IBM Yorktown Heights, Stanford Univ., Univ. São Paulo, CBPF - Rio de Janeiro. Translations of over 20 scientific works (German to English), work for the Einstein Papers Project.
Alfredo Tiomno Tolmasquim: born 1960 in Brazil. Chemical Engineer, doctorate in Communications and Culture, with postdoctoral work at the Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem; visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and the Advanced Studies Institute at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Researcher at the Museum of Astronomy and Related Sciences, Rio de Janeiro, where he was Director from 2003 to 2011. Currently Director of Scientific Development at the Museum of Tomorrow, also in Rio de Janeiro.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Jayme Tiomno
Book Subtitle: A Life for Science, a Life for Brazil
Authors: William Dean Brewer, Alfredo Tiomno Tolmasquim
Series Title: Springer Biographies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41011-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41010-0Published: 21 May 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41013-1Published: 22 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-41011-7Published: 20 May 2020
Series ISSN: 2365-0613
Series E-ISSN: 2365-0621
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 396
Number of Illustrations: 72 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, History of Science, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory