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Álvaro Alberto da Motta e Silva (April 22, 1889 – January 31, 1976), was a Brazilian vice admiral and scientist, responsible for the implementation of the Brazilian Nuclear Program in the 1940s and 1950s. Álvaro Alberto is considered the most prominent name of the national science focused on nuclear physics, serving as President of the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission between 1946 and 1947, and as President of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences for two terms, from 1935 to 1937 and 1949–51.