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| - José Antonio Balseiro (Córdoba, 29 de marzo de 1919 - Bariloche, 26 de marzo de 1962) fue un importante físico argentino. (es)
- José Antonio Balseiro (né le 29 mars 1919 à Córdoba (Argentine) – mort le 26 mars 1962 à San Carlos de Bariloche) est un physicien argentin. (fr)
- José Antonio Balseiro (March 29, 1919 in Córdoba – March 26, 1962 in Bariloche) was an Argentine physicist. Balseiro studied at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba in his home city, before moving to La Plata to study and research, obtaining a doctorate in physics at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. His doctoral dissertation was directed by Dr. Guido Beck, an Austrian physicist who arrived as a refugee in 1943. In 1950 he received a scholarship granted by the British Council. Due to the limited funds provided by the scholarship, his wife and daughter remained in Argentina. Balseiro did his post-doctoral research at the University of Manchester, in the group directed by Léon Rosenfeld. His father was Galician and his mother was French. (en)
- José Antonio Balseiro (Córdova, Argentina, 29 de março de 1919 – Bariloche, 26 de março de 1962) foi um físico argentino. José Antonio Balseiro nasceu em Córdova, quarto filho de Antonio Balseiro, emigrante da Espanha quando adolescente, e de Victoria Lahore, argentina de origem francesa. (pt)
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| - José Antonio Balseiro (March 29, 1919 in Córdoba – March 26, 1962 in Bariloche) was an Argentine physicist. Balseiro studied at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba in his home city, before moving to La Plata to study and research, obtaining a doctorate in physics at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. His doctoral dissertation was directed by Dr. Guido Beck, an Austrian physicist who arrived as a refugee in 1943. In 1950 he received a scholarship granted by the British Council. Due to the limited funds provided by the scholarship, his wife and daughter remained in Argentina. Balseiro did his post-doctoral research at the University of Manchester, in the group directed by Léon Rosenfeld. His father was Galician and his mother was French. The Argentine government requested that he return to Argentina in 1952, a few months before the expiration of his scholarship, to serve in the scientific review panel of the Huemul Project, a study on nuclear fusion conducted by Ronald Richter. Balseiro's report and those of other members of the panel finally convinced the government that the Huemul Project had no scientific merit. Based on this, and reports from a second review panel (composed of physicists Richard Gans and Antonio Rodríguez), the Huemul Project was abandoned. Afterwards, Balseiro remained in Argentina where he was appointed director of the physics department of the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales of the Universidad de Buenos Aires in 1952. In 1955, using part of the old installations of the Huemul Project, the National Atomic Energy Commission created the Instituto de Física de Bariloche. Balseiro played an important role in this decision and served as the first director of the new institution. Upon his untimely death from leukemia in 1962, the institute was renamed Instituto Balseiro. In 2005 the Instituto Balseiro celebrated 50 years of existence, having grown to become one of the country's leading centers for research in new technology, physics, and nuclear engineering. (en)
- José Antonio Balseiro (Córdoba, 29 de marzo de 1919 - Bariloche, 26 de marzo de 1962) fue un importante físico argentino. (es)
- José Antonio Balseiro (né le 29 mars 1919 à Córdoba (Argentine) – mort le 26 mars 1962 à San Carlos de Bariloche) est un physicien argentin. (fr)
- José Antonio Balseiro (Córdova, Argentina, 29 de março de 1919 – Bariloche, 26 de março de 1962) foi um físico argentino. José Antonio Balseiro nasceu em Córdova, quarto filho de Antonio Balseiro, emigrante da Espanha quando adolescente, e de Victoria Lahore, argentina de origem francesa. Balseiro estudou na Universidade Nacional de Córdoba antes de seguir para La Plata, onde obteve um doutorado em física na Universidade Nacional de La Plata, orientado por Guido Beck. Em 1950 recebeu uma bolsa do Conselho Britânico. Devido ao montante da bolsa sua mulher e filha tiveram de permanecer na Argentina enquanto ele conduziu suas investigações de pós-doutorado na Universidade de Manchester, em um grupo sob a direção de . O governo argentino solicitou seu regresso para a Argentina em 1952, poucos meses antes do término de sua bolsa de estudos, a fim de integrar uma comissão de pesquisadores no Projeto Huemul, sob a direção de Ronald Richter que tencionava gerar energia por fusão nuclear. Os relatório técnicos firmados por Balseiro, e outros membros da comissão convenceram Juan Domingo Perón de que o Projeto Huemul não tinha mérito centífico. Consequentemente o projeto foi desmantelado. Balseiro foi finalmente nomeado chefe do Departamento de Física da Universidade de Buenos Aires. (pt)
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