Biography:Olival Freire Jr.

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Olival Freire Jr. (Jequié,[1] 1954) is a physicist and historian of physics. He is Full Professor of Physics and History of Physics at the Universidade Federal da Bahia, former president of the Brazilian Society for the History of Science and president of the Commission for the History of Modern Physics, International Union of History and Philosophy of Science.

Education and career

Freire Jr. studied electrical engineering for a year and a half at the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) before, impressed by the lectures of physicist Benedito Pepe, he switched to physics.[2] He wrote his master's thesis with Amelia Hambuger on interpretations of quantum physics, in particular the interpretation by Vladimir Fock, and subsequently wrote his Ph.D. thesis with Michel Paty and Shozo Montoyama on David Bohm's approach to quantum mechanics.[3]

He worked as post-doctoral researcher at the Université Paris VII, at Harvard University, and subsequently at the MIT.[2]

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

References

  1. 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.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Interview with the physicist Olival Freire. Jr. by Wagner Ferreia , 13 April 2011 (downloaded 26 March 2012)
  3. Michel Paty: Introduction, in: Brazilian Studies in Philosophy and History of Science: An account of recent works (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science), Springer, ISBN:978-9048194216, p. 36 ff.
  4. Professor Olival Freire é um dos ganhadores do Prêmio Jabuti 2011 (downloaded 26 March 2012)
  5. Jabuti, Ciências Exatas[yes|permanent dead link|dead link}}], 18 October 2011, (downloaded 26 March 2012)
  6. Freire Jr., Olival; Pessoa Jr., Osvaldo; Bromberg, Joan Lisa (orgs) Teoria quântica: estudos históricos e implicações culturais . Campina Grande: EDUEPB; São Paulo: Livraria da Física, 2011. 456 p. ISBN:978-85-7879-060-8. Available from SciELO Books <http://books.scielo.org>.
  7. Seth, Suman (1 April 2016). "Review of The Quantum Dissidents by Olival Freire Jr.". Physics Today 69 (4): 57. doi:10.1063/PT.3.3143.