Ennio Candotti is a Brazil

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ian physicist

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 and scientific leader.

He studied physics

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 at the University of São Paulo

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, in São Paulo

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, from 1960 to 1964, and also at the University of Naples, in Naples

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, Italy

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 (1970–71). From 1966 to 1968 he specialized in theoretical physics

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 at the University of Pisa

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 (relativity theory), in mathematical physics

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 at the University of Munich, in Munich

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, Germany

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 (1968–1969) and in dynamic systems at the University of Naples again.

From 1974 to 1995, Candotti was a professor with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Currently he is a professor at the Universidade do Espirito Santo, in Vitória, state of Espírito Santo

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. He was naturalized a Brazilian in 1983.

Dr. Candotti is in his fourth mandate as the president of the Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science (Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência

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), the major scientific association in the country, and editor of Ciência Hoje, its scientific popularization magazine

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. For his activities in this area he has received the 1999 Kalinga Prize

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 conceded by UNESCO

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. He was also the president of the International Union for Science Communicators

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, created in 2002 in Mumbai

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, India

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.

External links

• Ennio Candotti's Curriculum Vitae. CNPq Lattes System (In Portuguese).
• Interviews with Ennio Candotti at the Universia
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  Brasil site: 2003 and 2005 (In Portuguese)
• Creación de Ciencia Hoy:http://www.cienciahoy.org.ar/hoy49/edit01.htm