Elisa Frota Pessoa
Elisa Frota Pessoa | |
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Born | Elisa Esther Habbema de Maia 17 January 1921 mesons |
Institutions | Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas |
Elisa Frota Pessoa, born Elisa Esther Habbema de Maia (17 January 1921 – 28 December 2018), was a Brazilian experimental physicist. She was one of the first women to graduate in physics in Brazil, in 1942, and a founding member of the
Early life
She was born in Rio de Janeiro, daughter of Juvenal Moreira Maia and Elisa Habbema de Maia. She began to become interested in science in 1935, in the ginasial (middle school) at the Escola Paulo de Frontin. Her greatest influence was professor Plinio Süssekind da Rocha with whom she took physics classes. He followed her closely and guided her, giving her subjects outside the program to study. At the end of high school Elisa wanted to study engineering, against the will of the family, since her father, who was very conservative, considered that the best career for women was marriage. This, however, did not prevent her from enrolling in the Physics course of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Brazil (current Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), graduating in 1942.[1][2]
Career
Together with Sonja Ashauer,[3] who graduated the same year at USP, she was the second woman to graduate in physics in Brazil. Soon she excelled in the course and in the second year, was called by professor Joaquim da Costa Ribeiro to be his assistant. She worked with Costa Ribeiro, without receiving a salary, until 1944, when she was hired by the university. At the age of 18, she was married to her former teacher, the biologist Oswaldo Frota-Pessoa, with whom she had two children, Sonia and Roberto. In 1951, she separated of the husband, and started to live with the also physicist Jayme Tiomno.
Along with Tiomno and other graduated physicists at the same time, such as
In 1950, she published with
Frota Pessoa moved to Brasília in 1965, to work in the
Death
Elisa died on 28 December 2018, in Rio de Janeiro.[11] She left five grandchildren (a biochemist, an art historian, an economist, an engineering student and a high school graduate) and six other great-grandchildren.
Main works
- 1950 – Sobre a desintegração do méson pesado positivo. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. vol. 22, p. 371 – 383 (with N. Margem)
- 1955 – A new radioactive method for markings mosquitoes and its application. Proceedings of Geneva Conference on Peaceful Applications of Atomic Energy. p. 140 – (with N. Margem e M.B. Aragão)
- 1961 – On the observation of fast hyperons emitted from the interactions of K mesons with emulsion nuclei. Il Nuovo Cimento. , Série 10 – with the European Collaboration Group . vol. 19 , p. 1077–1089
- 1969 – Isotropy in π−μ Decays. Physical Review. 177 (5): 2368–2370.
- 1983 – States in 118Sn from 117Sn (d,P)118Sn at 12 MeV. Il Nuovo Cimento. vol. 77A, p. 369 – 401
- 1986 – States in 94Zr from 94Zr (d,d')94Zr* at 15.5 MeV. Il Nuovo Cimento. vol. 96A, p. 347 – 365 (with S. Joffily)
References
- ^ a b "Elisa Frota-Pessoa (1921 - ) Física". Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq). Archived from the original on 18 May 2013.
- ^ a b "As primeiras pesquisadoras do CBPF: Elisa e Neusa". Memória da Física. Archived from the original on 3 August 2013.
- ^ "Sonja Ashauer (1923–1948) Física". Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq). Archived from the original on 18 May 2013.
- ISBN 9788588325197.
- ISSN 0031-899X.
- S2CID 123399741.
- S2CID 121269107.
- S2CID 116769967.
- S2CID 120286804.
- S2CID 118148373.
- ^ "Física brasileira Elisa Frota Pessôa morre aos 97 anos, no Rio". G1 (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2019-01-01.