Background
WATAGHIN, Gleb was born on November 3, 1899 in Birsula, Russia.
physicist university professor
WATAGHIN, Gleb was born on November 3, 1899 in Birsula, Russia.
Educated secondary school of Kiev (Russia), 1910-1918. University of Kiev. 1918-1919, University of Turin (Italy), 1920-1922.
Wataghin was hired in 1934 to found with other European physicists the Department of Physics of the recently founded University of São Paulo. There, he was the tutor of a brilliant group of young physicists, such as César Lattes, Oscar Sala, Mário Schenberg, Roberto Salmeron, Marcelo Damy de Souza Santos and Jayme Tiomno. The Institute of Physics of the State University of Campinas, in Campinas, Brazil, was named in his honour, as well as a prize in Physics.
Member: Academy Brasileira de Ciencias, American Physical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Cambridge Philosophical Society, Brazil-United States Cultural Union.
