About Oscar Sala
Oscar Sala, Italian-Brazilian nuclear physicist and important scientific leader, Emeritus Professor of the Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo. In 1946 Oscar Sala received a scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation and went to study in the U.S., first at the University of Illinois, and subsequently, in 1948, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Sala graduated in physics in 1943, at the then recently created University of São Paulo, in São Paulo, Brazil. In this new capacity, Sala became head of the Department of Nuclear Physics (1970–1979 and 1983–1987).
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