The Brazilian Center for Research in Physics
(Portuguese: Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas
Físicas, CBPF) is a physics research center
in the Urca neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro
sponsored by the Brazilian National Council
for Scientific and Technological Development
(CNPq), linked to the Ministry of Science
and Technology.
CBPF was founded in 1949 from a joint effort
of Cesar Lattes, José Leite Lopes, and Jayme
Tiomno.
Throughout its existence, CBPF became an internationally
renowned research institution, organizing
several international meetings and hosting
many renowned physicists, like Richard Feynman
and J. Robert Oppenheimer.
It was also the starting point of important
Brazilian institutions, like the National
Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics
(IMPA), the National Laboratory for Scientific
Computation (LNCC) and the National Laboratory
of Synchrotron Light (LNLS).
Since its creation, CBPF has been one of the
most important Physics research institutions
in Brazil, and its graduate program ranks
among the best in the country.
== External links ==
Official CBPF Homepage
