Roberto Aureliano Salmerón, Brazilian/French nuclear physicist (São Paulo 16 June 1922 – Paris 17 June 2020)

From Spanish and Italian ancestry

Published nearly 150 works

With A. Zichichi et al discovered neutral tau meson reported in Nuovo Cimento 4:1433, 1956

With others obtained the first K meson associated production reported in Nuovo Cimento 5:1388, 1957.  

OTHERS

First Non-European Member of Permanent Staff of CERN

Founder, Ecole d’Eté de Physique de Particules de Gif sur Yvette, CERN (1969)