José Alberto Albano do Amarante

José Alberto Albano do Amarante (born November 13, 1935 in Campo Grande , Mato Grosso do Sul , † October 3, 1981 ) was a Brazilian electrical engineer , physicist and air force officer .

Amarante was the son of the agricultural engineer Angelus da Rocha Albano (1917–?), One of his younger brothers is the scientist and general José Carlos Albano do Amarante (* 1942), another the chemist José Oswaldo Albano do Amarante (* 1946). His paternal grandfather was the poet José de Abreu Albano (1882–1923). He was married to Vera Maria Cruz (* 1937) and had three daughters.

career

Amarante began his career when he entered the cadet school of the Brazilian Air Force , followed by a degree in electronics engineering at the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA), from which he graduated cum laude in 1966 . He received his Master of Science (M.Sc.) from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California in 1971 . At the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) he received his doctorate in physics in 1973 with the thesis O principo de divergencia da corrente tensorial e sua aplicação ao estudo de mesons de spin 1 .

In 1972 he joined the Centro Técnico Aeroespacial (CTA) and headed a research group there that researched uranium enrichment through laser irradiation. The goals of nuclear research were to achieve independence in the energy sector due to the oil crisis and the applications in aerospace due to the Brazilian desire to become a nuclear power. As director of the Centro Técnico Aeroespacial, he was also involved in the research for the Brazilian nuclear submarine program, which was integrated into the secret nuclear program (Programa Nuclear Paralelo) created by President Ernesto Geisel .

His military career led him to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the air force ( tenente-coronel aviador ). He was involved in various strategic plans for the Brazilian aerospace industry, as well as in the preparation of the German-Brazilian nuclear treaty of 1975 during the military dictatorship . In his military function, he was director of the Laboratório de Estudos Avançados des Centro in the late 1970s Técnico Aeroespacial. His plans from 1978 also included the military-oriented Instituto de Estudos Avançados (IEAv), which was built in São José dos Campos after his death .

Mysterious circumstances of death

In October 1981, he died of leukemia within two weeks, according to official reports . His family claimed that he was murdered by the US and Israeli intelligence services to prevent Brazil from becoming a nuclear power. A little later, a Mossad agent by the name of Samuel Giliad , who was working in São José dos Campos at the time and who had left the country immediately after Amarante's death, was suspected as a possible murderer.

Honors

When the Instituto de Estudos Avançados (IEAv) was founded in 1982, Amarante was posthumously elected patron of the institute. In 1990 the non-profit organization "Grêmio de IEAv", which takes care of medical care issues, changed its name to Grêmio José Alberto Albano do Amarante. In 2006 Amarante became the namesake of the street Trevo Coronel Aviador José Alberto Albano do Amarante in the district of Putim in São José dos Campos in the state of São Paulo because of his services .

Web links

• Projeto de lei Nº 643, de 2006 with curriculum vitae (Portuguese)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Familia Albano de Fortaleza , family tree. Retrieved July 13, 2015 (Portuguese).
2. ^ Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica: Menções honrosas. Retrieved July 12, 2015 (Portuguese).
3. ↑ Link to the title ( Memento from July 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved July 12, 2015 (Portuguese).
4. ↑ ^{a b} Kenji Iizuka, Hatsue Iizuka: Color Sucesso ... No Extremo Oriente. Clube de Autores 2009, ISBN 978-85-9138-320-7 , p. 444. Retrieved July 12, 2015 (Portuguese).
5. ↑ Maurícío Pazini Grandão, Dino Ishikura: O Sistema de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico Aeroespacial. In: eaglesgate.com . Retrieved July 12, 2015 (Portuguese). (First published in: Revista da DIRENG - Directoria de Engenharia da Aeronáutica. Volume 11, No. 20, 2001, pp. 34–41).
6. ^ João Roberto Martins Filho: O projeto do submarino nuclear brasileiro. The Brazilian nuclear submarine project. In: SciELO. Contexto Internacional. Rio de Janeiro, Volume 33, No. 2, 2011, ISSN  0102-8529 . Retrieved July 12, 2015 (Portuguese).
7. ↑ Mário Chimanovitch: Segredos brasileiros são bisbilhotados há décadas por outros países. In: Folha de S. Paulo, August 3, 2013. Retrieved July 12, 2015 (Portuguese).
8. ↑ ^{a b} Projeto de lei Nº 643, de 2006. Accessed July 12, 2015 (Portuguese).
9. ↑ Grêmio José Alberto Albano do Amarante: Quem sonos? ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 12, 2015 (Portuguese).