Jorge A. Swieca, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jorge A. Swieca

Brazilian physicist

Date of Birth: 16-Dec-1936

Place of Birth: Poland

Date of Death: 22-Dec-1980

Profession: physicist

Nationality: Brazil

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Jorge André Swieca was a Brazilian physicist born in Warsaw, Poland in 1936.
He was mostly active in quantum field theory (QFT), particularly during the 1960s and 1970s.
A series of summer schools is named after him.Swieca fled Poland with his parent during World War II, shortly after it was occupied by Russia and Germany.
They spent two years in Japan, before moving to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
He obtained his Ph.D from the University of São Paulo under Werner Güttinger in 1964.
He died in December 1980, after complications from a heart bypass surgery.
In the late 1960s, he received the Brazilian Santista science prize.