From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of
Brazilian scientists , those born in
Brazil or who have established citizenship or residency there.
Manuel de Abreu (1894–1962), physician, inventor of
abreugraphy (mass
radiography of the lungs for screening
tuberculosis )
Aziz Ab'Saber (1924–2012), geographer; geologist; ecologist recognized for the Theory of Refuges and Amazon studies; former president of the SBPC
Fernando Flávio Marques de Almeida (1916–2013), geologist
Carlos Paz de Araújo , scientist and inventor, holds nearly 600
patents in the area of
nanotechnology
José Márcio Ayres (1954–2003), biologist, zoologist, primatologist
Marcia Barbosa (born 1960), physicist
Eddy Bensoussan (born 1938), physician
Wilson Teixeira Beraldo (1917–1998), co-discoverer of
bradykinin
Thaisa Storchi Bergmann (born 1955), astrophysicist at the
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
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Carlos Augusto Bertulani (born 1955), physicist
Vital Brazil (1865–1950), physician and scientist, discoverer of the
antivenom for snakes and other
venomous animals
Ennio Candotti (born 1942), physicist and scientific leader
Fernando Henrique Cardoso (born 1931), sociologist and former President
José Cândido de Melo Carvalho (1914–1994), biologist, zoologist, entomologist
Carlos Chagas (1879–1934), biologist, zoologist, public health worker
Evandro Chagas (1905–1940), physician and biomedical scientist specialized in tropical medicine; son of Carlos Chagas
Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro (born 1952), mathematician and statistician
Vera Cordeiro (born 1950), social entrepreneur and physician
Newton da Costa (born 1929), mathematician and logician, recognised for his works in
paraconsistent logic
Oswaldo Cruz (1872–1917), physician and
public health champion, eliminated
yellow fever ,
bubonic plague and
smallpox in
Rio de Janeiro at the turn of the 20th century
Johanna Döbereiner (1924–2000), biologist, discoverer of the
nitrogen fixing role of soil bacteria
Adolpho Ducke (1876–1959), Croatian-Brazilian
biologist ;
zoologist ;
entomologist ;
botanist
Florestan Fernandes (1920–1995), father of Brazilian
sociology
Sérgio Henrique Ferreira (1934–2016), physician and
pharmacologist , discovered the active principle of a drug for
hypertension
Carlos Chagas Filho (1910–2000), physician and physiologist, former president of the
Brazilian Academy of Sciences , former president of the
Pontifical Academy of Sciences ; son of
Carlos Chagas
Hércules Florence (1804–1879), pioneer of
photography
Santiago Americano Freire (1908–1997), physician and professor of pharmacology, psychiatrist, writer, painter
Gilberto Freyre (1900–1987), historiographer and sociologist
Celso Furtado (1920–2004), noted economist and ideologue of economy of
developing nations
Marcelo Gleiser (born 1959), physicist, writer and professor of physics and astronomy at the
Dartmouth College since 1991
José Goldemberg (born 1928), physicist, former Minister of Science & Technology and Dean of the
University of São Paulo
Émil Göldi (1859–1917), Swiss-Brazilian biologist; zoologist; naturalist
Bartolomeu de Gusmão (1685–1724), Brazilian Catholic priest, pioneer of aviation, the inventor of the balloon, became known as the "flying priest"
Jacques Hüber (1867–1914), Swiss-Brazilian biologist; botanist
Ivan Izquierdo (1937–2021), physician and
neuroscientist ; discovered neural mechanisms of
memory
Jean Paul Jacob (1937–2019), electronic engineer, researcher and professor, research manager at the Almaden
IBM Research Center,
California
Adib Jatene (1929–2014),
heart surgeon
Alexander Kellner (born 1961), Liechtensteinian/Brazilian
paleontologist
Warwick Estevam Kerr (1922–2018), geneticist, researcher on the biology and
genetics of bees
Eduardo Krieger (born 1928), physician and
physiologist , former president of the
Brazilian Academy of Sciences
César Lattes (1924–2005), experimental physicist, co-discoverer of the
pion , a type of subatomic particle, first president of the
Brazilian National Research Council
Napoleão Laureano (1914–1951), cancer researcher
Aristides Leão (1914–1993), physician and physiologist, discovered
Leão's depression , a phenomenon of
nervous tissue
Ângelo Moreira da Costa Lima (1887–1964),
doctor ,
entomologist
Henrique da Rocha Lima (1879–1956), physician, pathologist and infectologist, discovered Rickettsia prowazekii, the pathogen of epidemic
typhus
José Leite Lopes (1918–2006), theoretical physicist
Adolfo Lutz (1855–1940), physician and pioneer of
public health
José Lutzenberger (1926–2002), ecologist and zoologist
Roberto Landell de Moura (1861–1928), pioneer of
telephony
Fritz Müller (1821–1897), German-Brazilian biologist; zoologist; botanist; naturalist; entomologist
Miguel Nicolelis (born 1961), neuroscientist, one of
Scientific American 's best scientists of 2004
Jacob Palis (born 1940), mathematician of international fame, current president of the
Brazilian Academy of Sciences
Maurício Peixoto (1921–2019), engineer,
mathematician , pioneered the studies on
structural stability , author of
Peixoto's theorem
Domingos Soares Ferreira Penna (1818–1888), biologist, zoologist, naturalist
José Aristodemo Pinotti (1934–2009), physician and gynecologist, former president of the
International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
Marcos Pontes (born 1963), first Brazilian astronaut,
Missão Centenário
Patricia Pranke (born 1967), stem cell researcher, professor
Ana Maria Primavesi (1920–2020), soil scientist and promoter of the ecological management of tropical soils
André Rebouças (1838–1898), pioneer engineer, brother of Antônio Rebouças Filho
José Reis (1907–2002), biologist, greatest Brazilian science writer
Gilberto Righi (1937–1999), biologist, zoologist, specialist on earthworms
Milton Santos (1926–2001), geographer, won the
Vautrin Lud International Geography Prize , the highest award that can be gained in the field of geography
Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873–1932),
aviator and inventor
Ademar Agostinho Sauthier (1940), theologist
Mário Schenberg (1914–1990), theoretical physicist
Helmut Sick (1910–1991), German-Brazilian biologist; zoologist; ornithologist
Lotar Siewerdt (born 1939), agronomist;
forage production
Manuel Augusto
Pirajá da Silva (1873–1961), responsible for the identification and complete description of the pathogenic agent and the pathophysiological cycle of
schistosomiasis disease
Maurício Rocha e Silva (1910–1983), physician and pharmacologist, discovered
bradykinin , an active cardiovascular
peptide
Emilio Joaquim da Silva Maia (1808–1859), physician and naturalist
Nise da Silveira (1905–1999), psychiatrist and mental health reformer
Jorge Stolfi (born 1950), computer scientist, professor at
UNICAMP
Jayme Tiomno (1920–2011), experimental and theoretical nuclear physicist
Paulo Emílio Vanzolini (1924–2013), biologist, zoologist, herpetologist
Glaci Zancan (1935–2007), biochemist
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Mayana Zatz (born 1947), biologist and geneticist
Euryclides Zerbini (1912–1993), heart surgeon, pioneer of first
heart transplant in Brazil
Foreign scientists and engineers who lived or live in Brazil
Alexander Grothendieck (1928–2014), French mathematician
David Bohm (1917–1992), American physicist
Gregory Chaitin (born 1947), Argentine-American mathematician
Louis Couty (1854–1884), French physiologist and pharmacologist
Miguel Rolando Covian (1913–1992), Argentinian physiologist
Orville Adalbert Derby (1851–1915), American geologist
Heinz Ebert (1907–1983), German geologist
Luigi Fantappiè (1901–1956), Italian mathematician
Richard Feynman (1918–1988), American physicist
Charles Frederick Hartt (1840–1878), Canadian-American geologist and paleontologist
Hermann von Ihering (1850–1930), German naturalist
Fritz Köberle (1910–1983), Austrian physician and pathologist
Grigori Ivanovitch Langsdorff (1774–1852), German/Russian naturalist
Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009), French anthropologist
Emmanuel Liais (1826–1900), French astronomer and naturalist
Lucien Lison (1908–1984), Belgian anatomist
Fritz Müller (1821–1897), German naturalist
Giuseppe Occhialini (1907–1993), Italian physicist
Ludwig Riedel (1790–1861), German botanist
Oscar Sala (1922–2010), Italian nuclear physicist
Carl August Wilhelm Schwacke (1848–1904), German botanist
Friedrich Sellow (1789–1831), German botanist
Helmut Sick (1910–1991), German zoologist
Peter Szatmari (born 1950), Hungarian geologist
Gleb Wataghin (1899–1986), Russian/Italian physicist
Stefan Zweig (1881–1942), Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer
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