Ernst W. Hamburger

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Ernst W. Hamburger
Ernst W. Hamburger in 2016
Born	Ernst Wolfgang Hamburger (1933-06-08)8 June 1933 Berlin, Prussia
Died	4 July 2018(2018-07-04) (aged 85) São Paulo, Brazil
Nationality	Brazilian
Alma mater	University of São Paulo
Spouse(s)	(?–2011; deceased spouse; 5 children, one of them is Cao Hamburger)
Awards	Kalinga Prize José Reis Award for the Divulgation of Science Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit

Ernst Wolfgang Hamburger (8 June 1933 – 4 July 2018) was a German-born Brazilian physicist and popularizer of science. Hamburger was internationally known for his activities regarding public understanding of science. He was the director of , an interactive science museum in São Paulo. He won the UNESCO Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science,^[1] the José Reis Award for the Divulgation of Science, the medal of the Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit, and was a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.

Biography[]

Born in Berlin on 8 June 1933, Hamburger fled from the Nazis with his parents to Brazil when he was three years old.^[2] He studied physics at the University of São Paulo and joined its faculty (Institute of Physics) soon after his graduation, in 1960, and retired as a full professor of physics. Hamburger was married to Amélia I. Hamburger (d. 2011), also a physicist and colleague at the university. They had five children. One of them, Cao Hamburger, is a film and TV director and scriptwriter.

Hamburger died on 4 July 2018, in São Paulo, of lymphoma,^[3] at the age of 85.

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