Olival Freire Jr.
Olival Freire Jr. (
Education and career
Freire Jr. studied electrical engineering for a year and a half at the
He worked as post-doctoral researcher at the
Freire Jr. is Associate Professor and Researcher II UFBA in the History of Science. He is also president of the Brazilian Society for the History of Science and vice-president of the Commission for the History of Modern Physics, International Union of History and Philosophy of Science.[2]
His current research covers especially also the history of science in Brazil.
Awards and honors
In 2004, Freire Jr. was awarded a Senior Fellowship from the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, MIT, USA.[2] In 2011, he was one of the winners of the Prêmio Jabuti in exact sciences for his book on Quantum theory: historical studies and cultural implications.[4][5][6]
Publications
- Olival Freire Jr.: "A story without an ending: the quantum physics controversy 1950–1970", Science & Education, vol. 12, pp. 573–586, 2003
- Olival Freire Jr.: "Science and Exile: David Bohm, the Hot Times of the Cold War, and His Struggle for a New Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics", Historical Studies on the Physical and Biological Sciences, vol. 36, no. 1, 2005, pp. 31–35
- Olival Freire: David Bohm e a controvérsia dos quanta. Coleção CLE, Volume 27. Campinas : ISSN 0103-3247
- Olival Freire Jr.: "David Bohm e as controvérsias do mundo dos Quanta". Ciência Hoje, março de 2001, p. 35
- Olival Freire Jr.: L'interprétation de la mécanique quantique selon Paul Langevin, La Pensée, 1993 (Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics according to Paul Langevin).
- Olival Freire Jr.: The quantum dissidents: rebuilding the foundations of quantum mechanics (1950-1990). Springer, 2014.[7]
References
- ^ JESUS, Jorge Wilton Pereira de Memórias de uma esquerda em transição: Militância comunista, espaço e sociedade na Bahia (1974-1991). Santo Antônio de Jesus, Bahia. Universidade do Estado da Bahia - UNEB, 2008, p. 181.
- ^ a b c d Interview with the physicist Olival Freire. Jr. by Wagner Ferreia Archived 2014-03-24 at the Wayback Machine, 13 April 2011 (downloaded 26 March 2012)
- ISBN 978-9048194216, p. 36 ff.
- ^ Professor Olival Freire é um dos ganhadores do Prêmio Jabuti 2011 (downloaded 26 March 2012)
- ^ Jabuti, Ciências Exatas[permanent dead link], 18 October 2011, (downloaded 26 March 2012)
- ISBN 978-85-7879-060-8. Available from SciELO Books <http://books.scielo.org>.
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