Álvaro Alberto da Mota e Silva

Álvaro Alberto da Motta e Silva (22 April 1889 – 31 January 1976), was a Brazilian vice admiral and scientist, responsible for the implementation of the Brazilian nuclear program in the 1940s and 1950s.

Álvaro Alberto is considered the most prominent name of the national science focused on nuclear physics, serving as President of the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission between 1946 and 1947,

Early career News about Álvaro Alberto, who at the time was being treated in a hospital after being wounded by a bayonet during the Revolt of the Lash. Published in O Malho, No. 429, 3 December 1910 Son of a doctor and politician, he joined the Brazilian Naval School in 1906. Álvaro Alberto then planned to create a governmental institution, with the main purpose of increasing, supporting and coordinating national scientific research related to nuclear technology, in addition to controlling exports of strategic nuclear raw materials. leaving a great legacy for the Brazilian and global scientific community, in defending cooperation in nuclear technology for peaceful purposes. The Brazilian Navy also named the country's first nuclear submarine, scheduled for launch in 2029–30, as Álvaro Alberto.

Publications Rationalization of Equations to "n" Square Radicals Without Rational Terms (1916) The Problem of Words and Their Current Solution (1939) The Contribution of the Jesuits to the Physical Sciences (1940) On the Edge of the Science (1960) Science and Technology (1962) Notes and Communications (1962)