Gerhard Jacob, the scientist and academic manager

In its 60th year of foundation, the IF-UFRGS no longer has its three main creators. Theodor Maris passed away on August 20, 2010, Darcy Dillenburg on January 15, 2015 and Gerhard Jacob on October 25, 2018. Of the three, Gerhard was the one with whom I had the closest personal proximity. I digitalized part of his documentary collection, and we had planned to write a collaborative article from his reminiscences, a text of 80 pages he had given me to read, comment, and evaluate what destination would be given to it. Circumstances of our professional lives prevented the project from being executed on time. In the present work, the biographical profile of prof. Gerhard will be presented from relevant information contained in that memory, information collected from the IF-UFRGS files and from the professor’s personal files, as well as information extracted from an interview he gave to the present author in 2015. A brief analysis of the scientific contribution of prof. Gerhard and his role as manager at UFRGS and various external institutions, especially CNPq, of which he was a member of the Deliberative Council and its chairman.