> Nelson Onuchic was a member of the Academia Brasileira de Ciencias
> (Class: Ciencias Matematicas)
>
> His Biography (in Portuguese) can be found in the web page at:
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Actually it is also available in English (quoted below; accents omitted).
>
> http://www.abc.org.br/academicos/bia/nonuchic.htm
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Nelson Onuchic was born in 1926 in the city of Brodosqui, SP. He obtained
a Degree in Physics by the "Faculdade de Filosofia Ciencias e Letras (FFCL)"
of the "Universidade Mackenzie" in Sao Paulo, 1951. He was Teaching Assistant
at the Department of Mathematics of ITA ("Instituto Tecnologico da
Aeronautica"), from 1951 to 1958 where he studied under the supervision of
Francis D. Murnaghan and Flavio Botelho Reis. Under the advising orientation
of Chaim Samuel Honig at "Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciencias e Letras" of USP,
he obtained a Ph.D degree in 1957 with distinction in Mathematical Sciences.
His research was developed in the field of Topology, specifically in the Area
of P-spaces and Uniform Structures, having published many important results
that made him renown in the International Scientific Community. In 1959 he
transferred himself to Rio Claro, SP, responsible for the organization of
the Mathematics Course of the "Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciencias e Letras de
Rio Claro" where he directed the chair of Mathematical Analysis, position
which he occupied until 1966. In 1967 he transferred himself to "Escola de
Engenharia de Sao Carlos, Universidade de Sao Paulo" where, in 1969 he became
Full Professor. In 1972, with the creation of the "Instituto de Ciencias
Matematicas de Sao Carlos, Universidade de Sao Paulo", he transferred his
position to this Institute until his retirement in 1982. During 1961 and
1962 he had spent a time, in the USA, with a fellowship from the Guggenheim
Foundation and as a member of the Research Institute for Advanced Studies
(RIAS), Baltimore, USA. He has been Visiting Professor of many foreign
Universities, including Brown University and Georgetown University. In 1959
he was Visiting Professor at the "Instituto de Matematica y Estadistica" of
the University of Montevideo, Uruguay, where he ministered a course on
Wazewski's Topological Method and had profitable contacts with the renown
mathematician Jose Luis Massera. Still as visiting Professor he ministered
special and graduate courses on Topology and Functional Analysis at the
Universities of Sao Paulo, Bahia and Pernambuco, as well as several "Coloquios
Brasileiros de Matematica". From 1960 onwards he began to devote himself
entirely to Differential Equations. In this path he suffered influences from
the following mathematicians: Jose Luis Massera (Uruguay), Jack K. Hale,
Joseph P. La Salle and Philip Hartman (USA). In 1964 he ministered a course
on retarded differential equations at "Instituto de Matematica e Estatistica/
USP" which marked the introduction of this theory in Brazil. In 1965 he was
qualified as Full Professor at the Department of Mathematics of ITA. He was
elected Emeritus Professor of the ICMSC/USP in 1983. As a researcher, Professor
Onuchic is the author of many published articles in journals, such as the Anais
da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias, Proceedings of the American Mathematical
Society, Journal of Differential Equations, Pacific Journal of Mathematics,
Michigan Mathematical Journal, etc., some of which in collaboration with
P. Hartmann and some with Jack K. Hale. Most of these articles are on Ordinary
Differentials Equations and Functional Differential Equations and specially
on the applications of certain topological methods to the study of asymptotic
properties of solutions. He is a Founder Member of the Sociedade Brasileira
de Matematica (SBM) and of the Academia de Ciencias do Estado de Sao Paulo.
In 1990 he was rendered an honor at the "Reuniao sobre Equacoes Diferenciais"
at ICMS/USP. His role as a former of school is very significant. One can say,
still, that his pioneer work was crucial for the consolidation of the Instituto
de Ciencias Matematicas de Sao Carlos (USP), and of IME/USP as Research
Centers of international level in the field of ordinary and functional
differential equations. (Obs.: Text compiled by Raquel Velloso)
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