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Oscar Salaright Oscar Sala (b. March 26, 1922 in Milan, Italy), Italian-Brazilian nuclear physicist and important scientific leader, Emeritus Professor of the Institute of Physics, University of So Paulo. Sala graduated in physics in 1943, at the then recently created University of So Paulo, in So Paulo, Brazil. The Department of Physics of the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters was started with two imminent Italian physicists, Gleb Wataghin and Giuseppe Occhialini, who specialized in researching cosmic radiation. He was contemporary with a brilliant generation of young Brazilian physicians, such as Csar Lattes, Jos Leite Lopes, Mrio Schenberg, Roberto Salmeron, Marcelo Damy de Souza Santos and Jayme Tiomno. While still a student, Oscar Sala started research work with the group. In 1945, Sala published with Wataghin an important paper on showers of penetrating nuclear particles. Soon after graduation, he was hired as a teaching assistant by the Chair of General and Experimental Physics, led by Prof. Marcelo Damy de Souza Santos. His entire scientific and teaching career was spent at the same institution, which later became the Institute of Physics. In this new capacity, Sala became head of the Department of Nuclear Physics (1970-1979 and 1983-1987). In 1946 Oscar Sala received a scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation and went to study in the USA, first at the University of Illinois, and subsequently, in 1948, at the University of Wisconsin. There, he participated in the development of electrostatic accelerators for use in nuclear physics research, the first devices to use pulsed beams for the study of nuclear reactions with rapid neutrons. Upon his return to Brazil, Sala was responsible for installing and coordinating research efforts based on a large electrostatic Van de Graaff generator. Later, he helped to build a pelletron at the University of So Paulo (the first in Latin America). As a scientific leader. Dr. Oscar Sala was one of the founders and a scientific director (1959-1965) with the Foundation for Support of Research of the State of So Paulo (Fundao de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de So Paulo (FAPESP) and president of the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science (Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Cincia). He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (Academia Brasileira de Cincias), the Third World Academy of Sciences and the US Academy of Arts and Sciences. Selected bibliography - WATAGHIN, G. and SALA, O. 1945. Showers of penetrating particles. Phys. R., vol. 67, p. 55.
- AXEL, P., GOLDHABER, M. and SALA, O. 1948. Internal conversion electrons accompanying slow neutron capture in Gd. Phys. R., vol. 74, p. 1249.
- HERB, R. G. and SALA, O. 1948. Design of electrostatic generator for the Universidade de So Paulo, Brasil. Phys. R., vol. 74, p. 1260.
- BOWER, J., GOLDHABER, M., HILL, R. D. and SALA, O. 1948. Short lived metastable state of an "Even-Even" nucleus Ge72. Phys. R., vol. 73, p. 1219.
- ACQUADRO, J. C., HUSSEIN, M. S., PEREIRA, D. and SALA, O. 1981. The contribution of quasi-elastic processes to the total reaction cross-section of heavy ions. Physical Review Letters., vol. B100, p. 381.
- SALA, O. 1982. Post-accelerator for the Pelletron of the University of So Paulo. Workshop on Nuclear Physics, 5., La Plata, Argentina:.
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