José Antonio Balseiro
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José Antonio Balseiro (March 29, 1919 in Córdoba – March 26, 1962 in Bariloche) was an Argentine physicist.
Balseiro studied at the
The Argentine government requested that he return to Argentina in 1952, a few months before the expiration of his scholarship, to serve in the scientific review panel of the Huemul Project, a study on nuclear fusion conducted by Ronald Richter. Balseiro's report and those of other members of the panel finally convinced the government that the Huemul Project had no scientific merit. Based on this, and reports from a second review panel (composed of physicists Richard Gans and Antonio Rodríguez), the Huemul Project was abandoned.[2]
Afterwards, Balseiro remained in Argentina where he was appointed director of the physics department of the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales of the
In 1955, using part of the old installations of the Huemul Project, the
References
- ISBN 978-3-319-29251-9.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-521-46833-6.
External links
- Biography (Spanish)
- Biography at the Instituto Balseiro(Spanish)
- Physics in Latin America.