José Leite Lopes
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| Born | October 28, 1918 Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit |
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| Fields | Theoretical physics |
| Doctoral advisor | Wolfgang Pauli, Mário Schenberg |
José Leite Lopes (October 28, 1918 – June 12, 2006) was a Brazilian theoretical physicist who worked in the field of quantum field theory and particle physics.
Life
Leite Lopes began his university studies in 1935, enrolling in
University of Brazil in 1940 and graduated a bachelor in physics in 1942. Accepting an invitation by Carlos Chagas Filho, Leite Lopes started to work in the same year the Institute of Biophysics of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, but soon moved to the University of São Paulo to take up graduate studies in quantum mechanics with his teacher, friend and sponsor, Mário Schenberg. His main work during this time was on the calculation of Dirac's radiation field of electrons
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In 1944, Leite Lopes got an American fellowship to study at University of Brazil, and started to lecture on quantum mechanics and quantum theory of radiation. In 1948 he was confirmed as chairman after presenting a thesis on the theory of nuclear forces
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Together with
Robert Oppenheimer to spend another year of study at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he attended lectures by Richard Feynman, Victor Weisskopf and Paul Dirac. In 1957 he again visited the US on a fellowship, by invitation of Richard Feynman, at the California Institute of Technology
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In 1969, the new
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). He returned to Brazil in 1986, as the director of the Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas. He was also an honorary president of the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science
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Among many international and national honors and prizes, Leite Lopes received the 1999
Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit
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Works
Leite Lopes is internationally recognized for his many contributions to theoretical physics, particularly in the following areas:
- Prediction of the existence of neutral vectorial electroweak unification. They were awarded with the Nobel Prizeof Physics in 1979.
- The vector dominance model in nuclear electroweak interactions
- photonuclear reactions
- Construction of the Fock relativistic space
- Meson pseudoscalar potential in deuteron theory
- Scalar meson pairs
- Models of lepton and quark structures
External links
Wikiquote has quotations related to José Leite Lopes.
- José Leite Lopes Virtual Library
- Published papers. José Leite Lopes Virtual Library, CNPq, Brazil.
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