Henrique Leitão surprised with the Pessoa Prize 2014 – Digital Journal

The researcher Henrique Leitão, today awarded the Pessoa Prize 2014 expressed total surprise to the distinction, it believes will reward the ‘important work that has been done on the history of science in Portugal. ”
 

“It’s a prize that rewards a very important work that has been done on the history of science in Portugal to the highest academic level. I am very glad you had this recognition, “said Henrique Leitão agency Lusa.

The researcher also hopes that the award” serves to highlight the fact that there is an interesting scientific Portuguese story to tell, “a field that still need to be studied, because believes there is a too negative image of scientific history in Portugal.

expressing “total surprise” with distinction, Henrique Leitão stressed that the prize is dedicated to all the team with whom he has worked and it investigates “to a very high level,” the history of science.

The investigator is the winner of the 28th edition of the Pessoa Prize 2014 with a monetary value of 60,000 euros , an initiative of the Expresso newspaper sponsored by CGD recognizing the intervention of a Portuguese personality in the cultural and scientific life of the country.

Born in Lisbon on 7 November 1964, José Henrique Sampaio de Sousa Soares Leitão has a PhD in Physics from the University of Lisbon in 1998, and is currently Principal Investigator at the Center Interuniversity the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT), and lecturer at the Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon.

In his career, Henrique Leitão “combines solid scientific background with a humanistic knowledge, making it a true cultivator of interdisciplinarity”, today stressed the president of the jury, Francisco Pinto Balsemão, the prize announcement.

While on the Henrique Leitão work was highlighted at national and international projection of the exhibition “360 Discovery Science” (2013), “making known to the general public the critical importance that the Iberian Peninsula had to scientific development and the civilizational progress “

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