List of Brazilian scientists
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 SBPCFernando Flávio Marques de Almeida (1916–2013), geologistCarlos Paz de Araújo , scientist and inventor, holds nearly 600 patents in the area of nanotechnology José Márcio Ayres (1954–2003), biologist, zoologist, primatologistMarcia Barbosa (born 1960), physicistAbrahão de Moraes (1916–1970), astronomer and mathematicianEddy Bensoussan (born 1938), physicianWilson Teixeira Beraldo (1917–1998), co-discoverer of bradykinin Thaisa Storchi Bergmann (born 1955), astrophysicist at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul [ 1] Carlos Augusto Bertulani (born 1955), physicistVital Brazil (1865–1950), physician and scientist, discoverer of the antivenom for snakes and other venomous animals Ennio Candotti (born 1942), physicist and scientific leaderFernando Henrique Cardoso (born 1931), sociologist and former PresidentJosé Cândido de Melo Carvalho (1914–1994), biologist, zoologist, entomologistGuilherme "Bill" Cardoso , Brazilian-American entrepreneur, engineer, and scientist.Carlos Chagas (1879–1934), biologist, zoologist, public health workerEvandro Chagas (1905–1940), physician and biomedical scientist specialized in tropical medicine; son of Carlos ChagasGauss Moutinho Cordeiro (born 1952), mathematician and statisticianVera Cordeiro (born 1950), social entrepreneur and physicianNewton da Costa (1929–2024), 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 centuryJohanna Döbereiner (1924–2000), biologist, discoverer of the nitrogen fixing role of soil bacteriaAdolpho 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, painterGilberto Freyre (1900–1987), historiographer and sociologistCelso 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 1991José 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; naturalistBartolomeu 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; botanistIvan 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 beesEduardo 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 researcherAristides 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 physicistAdolfo Lutz (1855–1940), physician and pioneer of public health José Lutzenberger (1926–2002), ecologist and zoologistRoberto Landell de Moura (1861–1928), pioneer of telephony Fritz Müller (1821–1897), German-Brazilian biologist; zoologist; botanist; naturalist; entomologistMiguel Nicolelis (born 1961), neuroscientist, one of Scientific American 's best scientists of 2004Jacob 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, naturalistJosé 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, professorAna Maria Primavesi (1920–2020), soil scientist and promoter of the ecological management of tropical soilsAndré Rebouças (1838–1898), pioneer engineer, brother of Antônio Rebouças FilhoJosé Reis (1907–2002), biologist, greatest Brazilian science writerGilberto Righi (1937–1999), biologist, zoologist, specialist on earthwormsCarlos Rittl (living), scientist and environmentalistMilton Santos (1926–2001), geographer, won the Vautrin Lud International Geography Prize , the highest award that can be gained in the field of geographyAlberto Santos-Dumont (1873–1932), aviator and inventorAdemar Agostinho Sauthier (1940), theologistMário Schenberg (1914–1990), theoretical physicistHelmut Sick (1910–1991), German-Brazilian biologist; zoologist; ornithologistLotar Siewerdt (born 1939), agronomist; forage productionManuel Augusto Pirajá da Silva (1873–1961), responsible for the identification and complete description of the pathogenic agent and the pathophysiological cycle of schistosomiasis diseaseMaurício Rocha e Silva (1910–1983), physician and pharmacologist, discovered bradykinin , an active cardiovascular peptide Emilio Joaquim da Silva Maia (1808–1859), physician and naturalistNise da Silveira (1905–1999), psychiatrist and mental health reformerJorge Stolfi (born 1950), computer scientist, professor at UNICAMP Jayme Tiomno (1920–2011), experimental and theoretical nuclear physicistPaulo Emílio Vanzolini (1924–2013), biologist, zoologist, herpetologistGlaci Zancan (1935–2007), biochemist[ 2] Mayana Zatz (born 1947), biologist and geneticistEuryclides 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 mathematicianDavid Bohm (1917–1992), American physicistGregory Chaitin (born 1947), Argentine-American mathematicianLouis Couty (1854–1884), French physiologist and pharmacologistMiguel Rolando Covian (1913–1992), Argentinian physiologistOrville Adalbert Derby (1851–1915), American geologistHeinz Ebert (1907–1983), German geologistLuigi Fantappiè (1901–1956), Italian mathematicianRichard Feynman (1918–1988), American physicistCarlos Hamilton Vasconcelos Araújo (born 1964), economist and engineerCharles Frederick Hartt (1840–1878), Canadian-American geologist and paleontologistHermann von Ihering (1850–1930), German naturalistFritz Köberle (1910–1983), Austrian physician and pathologistGrigori Ivanovitch Langsdorff (1774–1852), German/Russian naturalistClaude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009), French anthropologistEmmanuel Liais (1826–1900), French astronomer and naturalistLucien Lison (1908–1984), Belgian anatomistFritz Müller (1821–1897), German naturalistGiuseppe Occhialini (1907–1993), Italian physicistLudwig Riedel (1790–1861), German botanistOscar Sala (1922–2010), Italian nuclear physicistCarl August Wilhelm Schwacke (1848–1904), German botanistFriedrich Sellow (1789–1831), German botanistHelmut Sick (1910–1991), German zoologistPeter Szatmari (born 1950), Hungarian geologistGleb Wataghin (1899–1986), Russian/Italian physicistStefan Zweig (1881–1942), Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer
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