César Lattes was a Brazilian physicist renowned for his significant contributions to the field of particle physics. He is best known for his role in the discovery of the pi meson (or pion) in the late 1940s, which was a crucial advancement in understanding the strong nuclear force and advancing the study of subatomic particles. Lattes was born on July 11, 1924, in Curitiba, Brazil, and he studied at the University of São Paulo.
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