Ernst W. Hamburger

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Ernst W. Hamburger
Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit

Ernst Wolfgang Hamburger (8 June 1933 – 4 July 2018) was a

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.[2] 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 Hamburger, is a film and TV director and scriptwriter.

Hamburger died on 4 July 2018, in São Paulo, of lymphoma,[3] at the age of 85.

References

  1. ^ "Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science". UNESCO press. 19 January 2001. Archived from the original on 12 October 2012.
  2. FAPESP
    magazine, Jan.2014, Ed.215
  3. ^ "Morre, aos 85, o físico e professor da USP Ernst Hamburger, em São Paulo". Folha de S.Paulo (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2018-07-05. Retrieved 2018-07-05.