João J. R. Fraústo da Silva

{{short description|Portuguese academic and chemist}}

João J. R. Fraústo da Silva (Tomar, August 30, 1933 – June 10, 2022) was a Portuguese chemist.[http://cqe.ist.utl.pt/personal_pages/pages/frausto_silva.php João J. R. Fraústo da Silva] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150707091715/http://cqe.ist.utl.pt/personal_pages/pages/frausto_silva.php |date=2015-07-07 }}{{cite web |title=NOVA University Lisbon mourns the death of its Founding Rector João Fraústo Da Silva |url=https://novalaw.unl.pt/en/note-of-condolence-joao-frausto-da-silva-1933-2022/ |publisher=Nova School of Law |access-date=14 September 2023}}

Fraústo da Silva received his degree in industrial chemical engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico in 1958 and his D.Phil. in chemistry working with Harry Irving (chemist) at the University of Oxford in 1962.{{cite journal |last1=Green |first1=M. L. H. |last2=Williams |first2=R. J. P. |title=An appreciation of the collaboration between the inorganic chemistry laboratory at Oxford and the Instituto Superior Tecnico at Lisbon brought about by Prof. J.J.R. Fraústo da Silva |journal=Inorg. Chim. Acta |date=2003 |volume=356 |pages=6–7 |doi=10.1016/S0020-1693(03)00331-1 |url=https://doi.org/10.1016/S0020-1693(03)00331-1 |access-date=14 May 2023}} He held several positions throughout his career, which features:

• Director of the Instituto Superior Técnico of the Technical University of Lisbon;[http://narq.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/extensao-cultural-e-educativa/exposicoes-fisicas-eou-virtuais/100-anos-ist-dos-directores-aos-presidentes/ Directors of Instituto Superior Técnico]
• President's Office of Research and Planning of Educational Action (GEPAE) of the Ministry of Education;
• First Rector of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa;
• Minister of Education and Universities in the VIII Constitutional Government of Portugal;
• President of the National Institute of Public Administration;
• President of the Foundation Cultural Centre of Belém;[http://www.ccb.pt/sites/ccb/en-EN/Pages/default.aspx Cultural Centre of Belém] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110702000914/http://www.ccb.pt/sites/ccb/en-EN/Pages/default.aspx |date=2011-07-02 }}
• Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation Oriente.[http://www.foriente.pt/ Foundation Oriente]