Elisa Frota Pessoa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Brazilian physicist
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Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
About Elisa Frota Pessoa
- Elisa Frota Pessoa, born Elisa Esther Habbema de Maia (17 January 1921 – 28 December 2018), was a Brazilian experimental physicist.
- She was one of the first women to graduate in physics in Brazil, in 1942, and a founding member of the Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas FÃsicas (Brazilian Center of Physical Research).
- She was distinguished by her studies of radioactivity with nuclear emulsions; reactions and disintegrations of K and p mesons in nuclear emulsions; and reactions of protons and deuterons with nuclei of average masses.
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