Producing (dis)interested science: construction and dissemination of the Department of Physics of the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of the University of São Paulo's mythical mission, and the formation of a scientific elite (1934-1968).

• Grant number: 15/20490-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): February 01, 2016
• Effective date (End): January 31, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History
• Principal Investigator: Bruno Bontempi Júnior
• Grantee: Luciana Vieira Souza da Silva
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Educação (FE). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 17/23799-5 - Producing (dis)interested science: construction and dissemination of the Department of Physics of the Faculty of Philosophy, sciences and letters of the University of São Paulo's mythical mission, and the formation of a scientific elite (1934-1968), BE.EP.DR

Abstract

Some studies have attempted to understand the formation of the Department of Physics of the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of the University of São Paulo. However, there is a historiographical gap regarding the questioning of the formation of a scientific elite from this teaching and research center, as well as the propagation of a mythical discourse which tells the department would have become a center of disinterested science's production. Thus, this doctoral project intends to problematize the formation of this department; the political and social events which supported the rise of a scientific elite; and, more, understand how it relates to the constructed, widespread picture about these subjects and about the teaching and research institution.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

SOUZA DA SILVA, LUCIANA VIEIRA; BONTEMPI JR, BRUNO. Gleb Vassilievich Wataghin: Physics, University and Politics in Brazil (1934-1949). RUDN JOURNAL OF RUSSIAN HISTORY, v. 19, n. 4, p. 965-978, NOV 2020. (17/23799-5, 15/20490-8)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

SILVA, Luciana Vieira Souza da. Science, university, and science diplomacy: Gleb Vassilievich Wataghins Brazilian trajectory (1934-1971). 2020. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Educação (FE/SBD) São Paulo.