Luiz Pinguelli Rosa
{{Short description|Brazilian physicist (1942–2022)}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1942|2|19|df=y}}
| birth_place = Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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| death_place = Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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| occupation = Nuclear physicist
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| organization = Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
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Luiz Pinguelli Rosa (19 February 1942 – 3 March 2022) was a Brazilian scientist.
Life and career
A nuclear physicist, researcher and professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, he was also a scientific leader. He was born in Brazil and lived in the city of Rio de Janeiro.
One of Rosa's fields of activity was renewable energy.
He was also scientifically and politically active in the field of nuclear energy.{{Cite web |url=http://www.abc.org.br/~lrosa |title=Academia Brasileira de Ciéncias |access-date=24 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090327002613/http://www.abc.org.br/%7ELROSA/ |archive-date=27 March 2009 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.jornaldamidia.com.br/noticias/2010/11/01/Brasil/Pinguelli_Rosa_defende_politica_d.shtml |title=Pinguelli Rosa defende política de petróleo e critica setor elétrico - Jornal da Mídia |website=www.jornaldamidia.com.br |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706153333/http://www.jornaldamidia.com.br/noticias/2010/11/01/Brasil/Pinguelli_Rosa_defende_politica_d.shtml |archive-date=2011-07-06}} {{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/60156252.html?dids=60156252:60156252&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+06%2C+1990&author=WILLIAM+R.+LONG&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=UPDATE+%2F+NUCLEAR+PROLIFERATION+Brazil+May+Not+Have+Ended+Development+of+an+A-Bomb&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104191449/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/60156252.html?dids=60156252:60156252&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+06,+1990&author=WILLIAM+R.+LONG&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=UPDATE+%2F+NUCLEAR+PROLIFERATION+Brazil+May+Not+Have+Ended+Development+of+an+A-Bomb&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 November 2012|title=UPDATE / NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION Brazil May Not Have Ended Development of an A-Bomb|work=Los Angeles Times|author=Long, William R|date=6 October 1990}}
Rosa died on 3 March 2022, at the age of 80, from COVID-19, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil.{{cite web | url=https://oespecialista.com.br/luiz-pinguelli-rosa-morre-de-covid/?fbclid=IwAR1tKM0GtDb_yBnNmR0W3posk7QlBXUMYFOQaMyhbwe6Cwi3dNoxgF-tvH0 | title=Físico Luiz Pinguelli Rosa, ex-presidente da Eletrobras, morre de covid | date=3 March 2022 }}{{cite news |title=Morre o físico Luiz Pinguelli Rosa, ex-diretor da Coppe e ex-presidente da Eletrobrás |url=https://g1.globo.com/rj/rio-de-janeiro/noticia/2022/03/03/morre-o-fisico-luiz-pinguelli-rosa.ghtml |access-date=3 March 2022 |publisher=g1 |date=3 March 2022}}
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Category:Brazilian nuclear physicists
Category:Brazilian people of Italian descent
Category:Academic staff of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Category:Members of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
Category:Scientists from Rio de Janeiro (city)
Category:Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Rio de Janeiro (state)
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