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 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^[1]
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^[2]
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[edit]

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

References[edit]

^ 2015 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards
^ "Glaci Zancan morre aos 72 anos". AGÊNCIA FAPESP. Retrieved 2016-05-09.

List of Brazilian scientists

Foreign scientists and engineers who lived or live in Brazil[edit]

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