He was contemporary with a brilliant generation of young Brazilian physicians, such as César Lattes, José Leite Lopes, Mário Schenberg, Roberto Salmeron, Marcelo Damy de Souza Santos and Jayme Tiomno.
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In 1946 Oscar Sala received a scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation and went to study in the U.S., first at the University of Illinois, and subsequently, in 1948, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Oscar Wilde | Oscar | Oscar Peterson | Oscar Hammerstein II | Oscar de la Renta | Oscar De La Hoya | Oscar Pistorius | Oscar II of Sweden | Sala | Oscar the Grouch | Oscar Robertson | Oscar Shumsky | Oscar Mayer | Oscar Levant | Oscar Brashear | Oscar Niemeyer | Oscar Lopez | Oscar Isaac | Oscar Goodman | Oscar D'León | Sala Capriasca | Óscar Pereiro | Oscar Marzaroli | Oscar Ichazo | Oscar Harrison | Oscar Hammerstein I | Oscar W. Greenberg | Oscar Sonneck | Óscar Romero | Oscar Kightley |
All three were working on research in physics at the then recently created University of São Paulo, amid a climate of great intellectual excitement and a breeding ground for a bright young generation of what would become the élite of Brazilian physics, such as César Lattes, Oscar Sala, Roberto Salmeron, Jayme Tiomno and Marcelo Damy de Souza Santos.