Sandoval Vallarta, Manuel

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Birthname | Manuel Maria Sandoval Vallarta | ||||
born on | 11 February 1898 at 00:40 (= 12:40 AM ) | ||||
Place | Mexico City, Mexico, 19n24, 99w09 | ||||
Timezone | LMT m99w09 (is local mean time) | ||||
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Biography
Mexican physicist and Physics professor at both MIT and the Institute of Physics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
He received his B.S. in physics from MIT in 1921; in 1924, MIT awarded him his Ph.D. He joined MIT's physics faculty in 1923, eventually rising to the rank of full professor. In 1927, Vallarta received a two-year Guggenheim Fellowship to study physics in Germany. The Universities of Berlin and Leipzig hosted him, and he was able to learn from Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Erwin Schrödinger, and Werner Heisenberg.
While at MIT, Vallarta was a mentor to Richard Feynman and Julius Stratton.
With Georges Lemaître, a Belgian physicist and churchman, Vallarta discovered that the intensity of cosmic rays varied with latitude because these charged particles are interacting with the Earth's magnetic field. They also worked on a theory of primary cosmic radiation and applied it to their investigations of the sun's magnetic field and the effects of the galaxy's rotation.
While at UNAM, he worked with Luis Alvarez and Arthur Compton on experiments to show that cosmic rays were composed of protons.
Manuel Sandoval Vallarta died on 18 April 1977, aged 79, in Mexico City.
Relationships
- associate relationship with Alvarez, Luis Walter (born 13 June 1911)
- associate relationship with Compton, Arthur (born 10 September 1892)
- associate relationship with Lemaître, Georges (born 17 July 1894)
- (has as) teacher relationship with Einstein, Albert (born 14 March 1879)
- (has as) teacher relationship with Heisenberg, Werner (born 5 December 1901)
- (has as) teacher relationship with Planck, Max (born 23 April 1858)
- (has as) teacher relationship with Schrödinger, Erwin (born 12 August 1887)
- (has as) student relationship with Feynman, Richard (born 11 May 1918)
Events
Source Notes
Sy Scholfield provided birth registry entry from Federal District archives: "a la una menos viente minutos de la manana" (at twelve-forty in the morning). Wikipedia has 1899 in error.
Categories
- Traits : Mind : Education extensive (PhD in physics)
- Lifestyle : Financial : Gain - Grant, Scholarship, etc. (Guggenheim Fellowship)
- Vocation : Education : Teacher (Professor of physics)
- Vocation : Science : Physics
- Notable : Famous : Founder/ originator