Jorge Alberto Sábato (June 4, 1924 – November 16, 1983) was an

Argentine Argentines, Argentinians or Argentineans are people from Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical, or cultural. For most Argentines, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their ...

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ...

and technologist. In 1955 he created the Metallurgy department at

CNEA The National Atomic Energy Commission (, CNEA) is the Argentine government agency in charge of nuclear energy research and development. The agency was created on 31 May 1950, with the mission of developing and controlling nuclear energy for pea ...

, and was its director up to 1968 when he became Technology manager of the

. While with the CNEA he promulgated the Sábato triangle model, dealing with interrelationships between science, government and industry in promoting scientific and technological development. In 1976 he was one of the creators of INVAP SE, he was the spiritual godfather, introducing the concept of "Technology Company". In 1993 the Instituto Sábato was created as a result of all his effort towards the development of materials science in Argentina.

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Prof. Jorge A. Sábato Biography
Argentine physicists 1924 births 1983 deaths {{physicist-stub

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