Background
Crespo, Vitor was born on December 2, 1932 in Leiria, Portugal. Son of Teodoro Antonio and Maria Candida (Pereira) Crespo.
Crespo, Vitor was born on December 2, 1932 in Leiria, Portugal. Son of Teodoro Antonio and Maria Candida (Pereira) Crespo.
Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, Coimbra (Portugal) University, 1956. Doctor of Philosophy in Nuclear Chemistry, University California, Berkeley, 1961.
Director-General of Higher Education. Minister of Education and Science, VI and VII Constitutional Governments. Portuguese Representative, United Nations General Assembly, 1974.
Deputy, Assembly of the Republic, since 1980. Minister of Education, 1980-1982. Portuguese Ambassador to UNESCO, 1984-1985.
Former President, Social Democratic Party Parliamentary Group. Former Member and President, Portuguese Delegation to Parliamentary Assembly, Council of Europe. Member, Social Democratic Party National Council, and National Political Committee.
Former Editor, Social Democratic Party newspaper Povo Livre. Former Member, European Economic Community Scientific and Technical Commission. Elected President, Assembly of the Republic, 1987.
Vice-President, Social Democratic Party National Political Committee. President, Franscisco Sá Cameiro Institute for Social Progress and Democracy, and editor of the Institute's journal. Member of the Council of State.
Former Rector, University of Lorenzo Marques, Mozambique. Former President, Institut, of Higher Culture, Lisbon. Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology, Coimbra University.
Contribuiçao para o estudo da fraca Radioactividade de misturas I. Estudo de cinzas de eucalipto, (co-author) 1954. Quantative determination of rutin and quercetin by the radiocobolt- 60, (co-author) 1958. Reacçoes nucleares com partículas de grande energía, produçao de sódio-24 e magnésio-28, 1962.Ejection of large fragments in high-energy nuclear reactions, (co-author) 1963. Produçao de isótopos de níquel no cobre e de magnésio no aluminio com partículas de grande energía, 1963. Percursos de sódio-24 no aluminio, 1963.Determinaçao de algumas secçoes eficazes, 1966. Energy loss and range of fission fragments in solid media, (co-author) 1967. Determinaçao potenciométrica da prata e do mercurio com 0 2- mercaptobenzotiazol, (co-author) 1967.Fission of U-238 by 2. 2 Ge V protons, (co-author) 1968. Análise dos componentes do óleo de amendoim.Estudo da sua adulteraçao, (co-author) 1969. Production ofT6-149 from gold by 2. 2 Ge V protons (co-author) 1970.Estudo do composto cobre (II)-2-mercapto-benzotiazol, (co-author) 1970. O benzotiazol-2-tiolato de cadmio, (co-author) 1970. Chemistry an Experimencal Science (translator).Quadrupole splitting in some Cis and trans Ir (III) Complexes, (co-author) 1976.
Member political committee Social Democratic Party, 1983-1987. Member American Chemical Society, American Physical Society, Society Quimica Portuguesa.
Married Maria Eugenia Nunes, July 31, 1957. Children: Rui Gustavo, Maria Raquel.