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Olival Freire, Jr.
Physicist and philosopher of science

Olival Freire, Jr.

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Olival Freire, Jr. (Jequié, 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

After studying electrical engineering for a year and a half at the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA). Subsequently, impressed by the lectures of physicist Benedito Pepe, he switched to physics. He wrote his masters 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.

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

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.

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. 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.

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