List of Brazilian scientists

This is a list of Brazilian scientists, those born in Brazil or who have established citizenship or residency there.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

• Adib Jatene, heart surgeon
• Adolfo Lutz, physician and pioneer of public health
• Adolpho Ducke, Croatian-Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist; botanist
• Alberto Santos-Dumont, aviator and inventor.
• Alexander Kellner, Liechtensteinian/Brazilian paleontologist.
• André Rebouças (1838–1898), pioneer engineer, brother of Antônio Rebouças Filho.
• Ângelo Moreira da Costa Lima (1887–1964), Brazilian; doctor; entomologist.
• Aristides Leão, physician and physiologist, discovered Leão's depression, a phenomenon of nervous tissue
• Aziz Ab'Saber - geographer; geologist; ecologist recognized for the Theory of Refuges and Amazon studies. Former president of the SBPC.
• Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Brazilian Catholic priest, pioneer of aviation, the inventor of the balloon, he became known as the "flying priest"
• Carlos Augusto Bertulani, Brazilian physicist.
• Carlos Chagas, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; public health worker
• Carlos Chagas Filho, physician and physiologist, former presidente of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, former president of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Son of Carlos Chagas.
• Carlos Paz de Araújo, Brazilian scientist and inventor, he holds nearly 600 patents in the area of nanotechnology
• Celso Furtado, noted economist and ideologue of economy of developing nations
• César Lattes, experimental physicist, co-discoverer of the pion, a type of subatomic particle, first president of the Brazilian National Research Council
• Daniel Martins-de-Souza,^[1] Brazilian biologist; biochemist^[2]
• Domingos Soares Ferreira Penna, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; naturalist
• Eduardo Krieger, physician and physiologist, former president of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
• Emmanuel Dias-Neto,^[3] Brazilian biologist and geneticist; described the sequencing methodology ORESTES^[4]
• Émil Göldi, Swiss-Brazilian biologist; zoologist; naturalist
• Ennio Candotti, physicist and scientific leader
• Euryclides Zerbini, heart surgeon, pioneer of first heart transplant in Brazil
• Evandro Chagas, physician and biomedical scientist specialized in tropical medicine. Son of Carlos Chagas.
• Fernando Flávio Marques de Almeida, Brazilian geologist
• Fernando Henrique Cardoso, sociologist and former President
• Florestan Fernandes (1920–1995), father of Brazilian sociology
• Fritz Müller, German-Brazilian biologist; zoologist; botanist; naturalist; entomologist
• Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro, Brazilian mathematician and statistician
• Gilberto Freyre (1900–1987), historiographer and sociologist
• Gilberto Righi, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; specialist on earthworms
• Helmut Sick, German-Brazilian biologist; zoologist; ornithologist
• Henrique da Rocha Lima was a Brazilian physician, pathologist and infectologist, he discovered Rickettsia prowazekii, the pathogen of epidemic typhus
• Hércules Florence, pioneer of photography
• Ivan Izquierdo, physician and neuroscientist. Discovered neural mechanisms of memory
• Jacob Palis, mathematician of international fame, current president of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
• Jacques Hüber, Swiss-Brazilian biologist; botanist
• Jayme Tiomno, experimental and theoretical nuclear physicist
• Jean Paul Jacob, Brazilian electronic engineer, researcher and professor, research manager at the Almaden IBM Research Center, California
• Johanna Döbereiner (1924–2000), biologist, discoverer of the nitrogen fixing role of soil bacteria
• Jorge Stolfi, computer scientist, professor at UNICAMP
• José Aristodemo Pinotti, physician and gynecologist, former president of the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
• José Cândido de Melo Carvalho, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
• José Goldemberg, physicist, former Minister of Science & Technology and Dean of the University of São Paulo
• José Leite Lopes, theoretical physicist
• José Lutzenberger (1926–2002), ecologist and zoologist
• José Márcio Ayres, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; primatologist
• José Reis, biologist, greatest Brazilian science writer
• Lotar Siewerdt, Brazilian agronomist; forage production
• Manuel Augusto Pirajá da Silva, he was responsible for the identification and complete description of the pathogenic agent and the pathophysiological cycle of Schistosomiasis disease
• Manuel de Abreu, physician, inventor of abreugraphy (mass radiography of the lungs for screening tuberculosis)
• Marcelo Gleiser, physicist, writer and professor of physics and astronomy at the Dartmouth College since 1991
• Marcia Barbosa, Brazilian physicist
• Marcos Pontes, first Brazilian astronaut, Expedition 13
• Mário Schenberg, theoretical physicist
• Maurício Peixoto, he was a Brazilian engineer who pursued a bright career as a mathematician, he pioneered the studies on structural stability, and is the author of Peixoto's theorem.
• Maurício Rocha e Silva, physician and pharmacologist, discovered bradykinin, an active cardiovascular peptide
• Mayana Zatz, biologist and geneticist
• Miguel Nicolelis, neuroscientist, one of Scientific American's best scientists of 2004
• Milton Santos (1926–2001), geographer, he won the Vautrin Lud International Geography Prize- the highest award that can be gained in the field of geography.
• Newton da Costa (1929), mathematician and logician, recognised for his works in paraconsistent logic
• Nise da Silveira (1905–1999), psychiatrist and mental health reformer
• 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
• Paulo Emílio Vanzolini, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; herpetologist
• Roberto Landell de Moura, pioneer of telephony
• Santiago Americano Freire (1908–1997), physician and professor of pharmacology, psychiatrist, writer, painter
• Sérgio Henrique Ferreira, physician and pharmacologist, discovered the active principle of a drug for hypertension
• Thaisa Storchi Bergmann, astrophysicist at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul^[5]
• Vera Cordeiro, social entrepreneur and physician
• Vital Brazil, physician and scientist, discoverer of the antivenom for snakes and other venomous animals
• Wagner Farid Gattaz,^[6] physician and scientist, member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.
• Warwick Estevam Kerr, geneticist, researcher on the biology and genetics of bees
• Wilson Teixeira Beraldo, co-discoverer of bradykinin

Foreign scientists and engineers who lived or live in Brazil

• Carl August Wilhelm Schwacke, German botanist
• Charles Frederick Hartt, Canadian-American geologist and paleontologist
• Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist
• Emmanuel Liais, French astronomer and naturalist
• Friedrich Sellow, German botanist
• Fritz Müller, German naturalist
• Fritz Köberle, Austrian physician and pathologist
• Gregory Chaitin, Argentine-American mathematician
• Grigori Ivanovitch Langsdorff, German/Russian naturalist
• Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian physicist
• Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian/Italian physicist
• Heinz Ebert, German geologist
• Helmut Sick, German zoologist
• Hermann von Ihering, German naturalist
• Louis Couty, French physiologist and pharmacologist
• Lucien Lison, Belgian anatomist
• Ludwig Riedel, German botanist
• Miguel Rolando Covian, Argentinian physiologist
• Orville Adalbert Derby, American geologist
• Oscar Sala, Italian nuclear physicist
• Richard Feynman, American physicist
• David Bohm American physicist
• Luigi Fantappiè Italian mathematician
• Peter Szatmari Hungarian geologist

See also

• Brazilian expatriate academics
• List of Brazilian mathematicians

References

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2. Search Results for author Martins-de-Souza D on PubMed.
3. http://lattes.cnpq.br/0278717765065500[]
4. 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.
5. 2015 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards
6. http://lattes.cnpq.br/8681520193756072[]