Brazilian Physical Society
The Brazilian Physical Society is a non-profit organization of physicists and physics teachers, affiliated with the Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science. Its main missions are to promote the advancement and dissemination of knowledge in physics and science; to defend academic freedom, as well as the interests and rights of professionals in physics, and to contribute to initiatives and public policies aiming to improve the training and harnessing of physics teachers and physicists to help the scientific and technological development of Brazil.
History and activities
The SBF was founded on July 14, 1966. The founding act took place during the XVIII Annual Meeting of the SBPC in Blumenau and was led by José Goldemberg, at the time the secretary of the Physics Commission of the SBPC Meeting. The SBF’s first president was Oscar Sala. The Society is located in the city of São Paulo.Since its foundation, the SBF has organized national meetings in all fields of physics, either annually or biennially.
The Brazilian Physics Society publishes three journals:
Brazilian Journal of Physics
Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física - an open access journal devoted to the improvement of Physics teaching at all academic levels – mainly in Portuguese
- a journal in Portuguese with focus on Physics teaching
and an electronic weekly Bulletin with physics news. The Society has also published several about the history and evolution of Physics in Brazil. From 1995 to 2006 the SBF has published the
Since 2014, SBF coordinates the Professional Master’s Degree in Physics Education, an initiative devoted to improving the training of elementary and high school teachers in all regions of Brazil.
The Society organizes the Brazilian Physics Olympiad and the Brazilian Physics Olympiad in Public Schools, activities that involve about 265,000 students every year.
Members
SBF has more than 5,000 members, grouped into three categories: aspiring, regular, and effective.Divisions
SBF has 12 Divisions that represent the wide range of interests of the physics community in Brazil. The main goals of the SBF divisions are to promote the development of research and to propose activities related to the different areas of Physics, nationally and in thematic events. They are:Atomic & Molecular
Biological Physics
Statistical Physics
Industrial Physics
Mathematical Physics
Condensed Matter Physics
Medical Physics
Optics and Photonics
Research in Physics Education
Plasma Physics
Particles and Fields
Nuclear Physics
Prizes and awards
SBF awards five different prizes every year:José Leite Lopes Prize, for best PhD Thesis;
Carolina Nemes Prize, for outstanding women in the early stages of the career;
Joaquim da Costa Ribeiro Prize, for career-long outstanding contributions in condensed matter physics and materials sciences
Ernesto Hamburger Prize, for important contributions to popularization and dissemination of Physics in Brazil.
Anselmo Salles Paschoa Prize, excellence in research prize for Afro-Brazilian physicists
Presidents
Since its foundation, SBF has had the following Presidents:Oscar Sala
José Leite Lopes
Alceu G. Pinho Filho
José Goldemberg
Mario Schenberg
Herch Moysés Nussenzveig
Fernando de Souza Barros
Ramayana Gazzinelli
Gil da Costa Marques
Fernando Claudio Zawislak
Francisco Cesar Sá Barreto
Humberto Siqueira Brandi
José Roberto Leite
Adalberto Fazzio
Alaor Silvério Chaves
Celso Pinto de Melo
Ricardo Magnus Osório Galvão
Belita Koiller
Marcos Assunção Pimenta
Rogério Rosenfeld
Débora Peres Menezes