Gaspar Barreira
"1940 - 2019
He was one of the founders of LIP, and over the past 30 years devoted to it much of his immense energy
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Tribute session: LIP, 11 Set 2019: Tribute Page
It is with great sadness and emotion that we speak of the passing away of Gaspar Barreira.
He departed tonight, but leaves us an immense legacy of vision, endurance and resilience. He worked as few in the construction of a Portugal where Knowledge, Freedom and Rationality were decisive, before and after the Revolution of April 25th 1974.
He was one of the founders of LIP, and over the past 30 years devoted to it much of his immense energy. If today we have LIP, which is not just a group of physicists participating in experiments at CERN, but rather a diverse but coherent community of physicists, engineers, technicians, administrative and students, engaged in the challenges of particle physics but also of instrumentation, computing and technology, deeply embedded in international and national collaborations, we owe much of it to Gaspar.
His last big project and enthusiasm, the installation in Portugal of a treatment and research center for cancer therapy with protons, is not yet accomplished. For this we will strive.
Gaspar, the seed has fructified and the tree will stand!
Mário Pimenta
(President of LIP)