Zeferino Vaz (may/27/1908 - feb/19/1981)

At exactly 92 year ago the physician Zeferino Vaz, one of the main founders of the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), was born in São Paulo. He spend 12 years as its leader in its first times (1966-1978), when 10 of the institutes and faculties of the university were built. He was really a kind of “faculty-maker”: he was directly responsible for the creation of six other faculties in the state of São Paulo, four of them of Medicine. And he managed to avoid military interventions at Unicamp, that happened in several other universities in the dictatorship of 1964-85. It was not an easy task.