Emma Victoria Pérez Ferreira (2 April 1925 – 28 June 2005) was an Argentine physicist who contributed immensely to the advancement of science in Argentina.
Pérez Ferreira was born in Buenos Aires on 2 April 1925 and studied Physico-Mathematical Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), earning her bachelor's degree in 1952 and becoming a teacher at the university's Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences.
[2] She served as head of the Department of Nuclear Physics for ten years and then Director of research and development.
[3] In 1976, she was appointed head of the project called TANDAR (for TANDem ARgentino), to build a 20 MeV tandem-type accelerator for heavy ions.
[4][5] From 1985 to 1989, she was a member of the Council for the Consolidation of Democracy created by President Raúl Alfonsín.