Abraão de Moraes, Brazilian astronomer and mathematician (Itapecerica da Serra, São Paulo State 17 November 1916 – São Paulo 11 December 1970)
ACHIEVEMENTS
First to include a rigorous treatment for motion equations resulting from a particle in a field with spherical symmetry in General Relativity Theory
Effects of the Earth’s oblateness on the orbit of an artificial satellite. Anais da Acad. Bras. Ciencias 30:465-510, 1958.
Introduced new criteria of randomness (1961)
With P.A.Pompéia. Time distribution analysis related to Statistical Physics. Anais da Acad. Bras. Ciencias 33:13-23, 1961.
HONORS
Palmes Academiques, France
Diplome, National Science Foundation, United States
De Moraes crater in Moon