User:Sju hav/List of scientists:Brazil
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This is a list of Brazilian scientists.
- Fernando Henrique Cardoso, sociologist and former President
- Adib Jatene, heart surgeon
- Warwick Estevam Kerr, geneticist, researcher on the biology and genetics of bees
- Fritz Müller, German-Brazilian biologist; zoologist; botanist; naturalist; entomologist
- Manuel de Abreu, physician, inventor of chest photofluorography (mass radiography of the lungs for screening tuberculosis)
- Aziz Ab'Saber, geographer; geologist; ecologist known for the Theory of Refuges and Amazon studies; former president of the SBPC
- Fernando Flávio Marques de Almeida, geologist
- Carlos Paz de Araújo, scientist and inventor, holds nearly 600 patents in the area of nanotechnology
- José Márcio Ayres, biologist, zoologist, primatologist
- Marcia Barbosa, physicist
- Eddy Bensoussan, physician
- Wilson Teixeira Beraldo, co-discoverer of bradykinin
- Thaisa Storchi Bergmann, astrophysicist; she got the award L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science[1]
- Carlos Augusto Bertulani, physicist
- Vital Brazil, physician and scientist, discoverer of the antivenom for snakes and other venomous animals
- Ennio Candotti, physicist and scientific leader
- José Cândido de Melo Carvalho, biologist, zoologist, entomologist
- Carlos Chagas, biologist, zoologist, public health worker
- Evandro Chagas, physician and biomedical scientist specialized in tropical medicine; son of Carlos Chagas
- Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro, mathematician and statistician
- Vera Cordeiro, social entrepreneur and physician
- Newton da Costa (1929), mathematician and logician, known for his works in paraconsistent logic
- Oswaldo Cruz, physician and public health champion, eliminated yellow fever, bubonic plague and smallpox in Rio de Janeiro at the turn of the 20th century
- Emmanuel Dias-Neto,[2] biologist and geneticist; described the sequencing methodology ORESTES[3]
- Adolpho Ducke, Croatian-Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist; botanist
- Florestan Fernandes (1920–1995), father of Brazilian sociology
- Sérgio Henrique Ferreira, physician and pharmacologist, discovered the active principle of a drug for hypertension
- Carlos Chagas Filho, 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, 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, noted economist and ideologue of economy of developing nations
- Wagner Farid Gattaz,[4] physician and scientist, member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
- Marcelo Gleiser, physicist, writer and professor of physics and astronomy at the Dartmouth College since 1991
- Émil Göldi, Swiss-Brazilian biologist; zoologist; naturalist
- Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Brazilian Catholic priest, pioneer of aviation, the inventor of the balloon, became known as the "flying priest"
- Jacques Hüber, Swiss-Brazilian biologist; botanist
- Ivan Izquierdo, physician and neuroscientist; discovered neural mechanisms of memory
- Jean Paul Jacob, electronic engineer, researcher and professor, research manager at the Almaden IBM Research Center, California
- Alexander Kellner, Liechtensteinian/Brazilian paleontologist
- Eduardo Krieger, physician and physiologist, former president of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
- César Lattes, experimental physicist, co-discoverer of the pion, a type of subatomic particle, first president of the Brazilian National Research Council
- Ângelo Moreira da Costa Lima (1887–1964), doctor, entomologist
- José Leite Lopes, theoretical physicist
- Adolfo Lutz, physician and pioneer of public health
- José Lutzenberger (1926–2002), ecologist and zoologist
- Daniel Martins-de-Souza,[5] biologist; biochemist[6]
- Roberto Landell de Moura, pioneer of telephony
- Miguel Nicolelis, neuroscientist, one of Scientific American's best scientists of 2004
- Domingos Soares Ferreira Penna, biologist, zoologist, naturalist
- José Aristodemo Pinotti, physician and gynecologist, former president of the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
- André Rebouças (1838–1898), pioneer engineer, brother of Antônio Rebouças Filho
- José Reis, biologist, greatest Brazilian science writer
- Gilberto Righi, biologist, zoologist, specialist on earthworms
- Alberto Santos-Dumont, aviator and inventor
- Mário Schenberg, theoretical physicist
- Helmut Sick, German-Brazilian biologist; zoologist; ornithologist
- Lotar Siewerdt, agronomist; forage production
- Johanna Döbereiner (1924–2000), biologist, discoverer of the nitrogen fixing role of soil bacteria
- José Goldemberg, physicist, former Minister of Science & Technology and Dean of the University of São Paulo
- Aristides Leão, physician and physiologist, discovered Leão's depression, a phenomenon of nervous tissue
- Henrique da Rocha Lima, physician, pathologist and infectologist, discovered Rickettsia prowazekii, the pathogen of epidemic typhus
- Jacob Palis, mathematician; current president of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
- Maurício Peixoto, engineer, mathematician, pioneered the studies on structural stability, author of Peixoto's theorem
- Marcos Pontes, first Brazilian astronaut, Expedition 13
- Milton Santos (1926–2001), geographer, won the Vautrin Lud International Geography Prize, the highest award that can be gained in the field of geography
- Manuel Augusto Pirajá da Silva, responsible for the identification and complete description of the pathogenic agent and the pathophysiological cycle of schistosomiasis disease
- Maurício Rocha e Silva, physician and pharmacologist, discovered bradykinin, an active cardiovascular peptide
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- Nise da Silveira (1905–1999), psychiatrist and mental health reformer
- Jorge Stolfi, computer scientist, professor at UNICAMP
- Jayme Tiomno, experimental and theoretical nuclear physicist
- Paulo Emílio Vanzolini, biologist, zoologist, herpetologist
- Glaci Zancan, biochemist[7]
- Mayana Zatz, biologist and geneticist
- Euryclides Zerbini, heart surgeon, pioneer of first heart transplant in Brazil
References[change | change source]
- ↑ 2015 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards
- ↑ http://lattes.cnpq.br/0278717765065500[full citation needed]
- ↑ Dias Neto, Emmanuel; Correa, icardo Garcia; Verjovski-Almeida, Sergio; Briones, Marcelo R. S.; Nagai, Maria Aparecida; da Silva, Wilson; Zago, Marco Antonio; Bordin, Silvana; Costa, Fernando Ferreira (2000). "Shotgun sequencing of the human transcriptome with ORF expressed sequence tags". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 97 (7): 3491–6. doi:10.1073/pnas.97.7.3491. PMC 16267. PMID 10737800.
- ↑ http://lattes.cnpq.br/8681520193756072[full citation needed]
- ↑ http://lattes.cnpq.br/3326522478832809[full citation needed]
- ↑ Template:PubMedAuthorSearch
- ↑ "Glaci Zancan morre aos 72 anos". AGÊNCIA FAPESP. Retrieved 2016-05-09.
Further reading[change | change source]
- Notable Brazilian Scientists (in Portuguese)
[[Category: Brazilian scientists|*]] [[Category: Lists of scientists by nationality|Brazilian]]