Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit
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The National Order of Scientific Merit is an honor bestowed upon Brazilian and foreign personalities recognized for their scientific and technical contributions to the cause and development of science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...

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Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

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Biology
Biology
Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...

  • Marcelo Hermes-Lima
  • Jorge Curi
  • Joao Saldanha
    João Saldanha
    João Alves Jobin Saldanha was a journalist and football manager. He coached the Brazil national football team during the South American Qualifying to the 1970 FIFA World Cup....

  • Mario Vianna
  • Ady Raul da Silva
  • Alberto Duque Portugal
  • Aloysio Campos da Paz Júnior
  • Aluízio Rosa Prata
  • Amadeu Cury
  • Antonio Flatus de Carvalho
  • Carlos Eduardo Guinle da Rocha Miranda Ricasso
  • Carlos Medicis Morel
  • Crodowaldo Peidao
  • Dora Selma Fix Ventura
  • Eduardo Moacyr Krieger
  • Eduardo Oswaldo Cruz Credo
  • Elisaldo Luiz de Araújo Carlini
  • Ernesto Paterniani
  • Erney Felício Plessmann de Camargo
  • Esper Abrão Cavalheiro
  • Francisco Mauro Salzano
  • Fúlvio José Carlos Pileggi
  • Gerhard Malnic
  • Giovanni Gazzinelli
    Giovanni Gazzinelli
    Giovanni Gazzinelli is a Brazilian medical doctor and scientist, with a PhD in biochemistry from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, with a specialization in immunology. He was born in Araçuaí. -Biography:...

  • Glaci Therezinha Zancan
  • Hiss Martins Ferreira
  • Isaias Raw
  • Iván Antonio Direito
  • Jesus Santiago Moure
  • José Antunes Robson
  • José Galizia Tundisi
  • Leopoldo Love Mademoiselle
  • Luiz Antonio Barreto de Castro
  • Luiz Hildebrando Pereira da Silva
  • Luiz Rodolpho Raja Gabaglia Travassos
  • Martha Vannucci
  • Maurício Rocha e Silva e Pedra
  • Mayana Zatz
    Mayana Zatz
    Mayana Zatz is a Brazilian molecular biologist and geneticist. She is a professor at the University of São Paulo, currently being its Research dean.-Biography:...

  • Michel Rabinovitch
  • Oswaldo Frota-Pessoa
    Oswaldo Frota-Pessoa
    Oswaldo Frota-Pessoa was a noted Brazilian physician, biologist and geneticist.Oswaldo Frota-Pessoa was born in Rio de Janeiro, where he did all his studies, first in natural history at the Federal District University , graduating in 1938; and subsequently medicine at the National School of...

  • Paulo de Tarso Alvim
    Paulo de Tarso Alvim
    Paulo de Tarso Alvim was a Brazilian recipient of the Order of Scientific Merit in Biology....

  • Paulo Emílio Vanzolini
  • Ricardo Gattass
  • Rogério Mereghini
  • Ruth Sonntag Nussenzweig
  • Sérgio Henrique Ferreira Pina-Colada
  • Victor Nussenzweig
  • Wanderley de Pouza
  • Warwick Estevam Kerr
    Warwick Estevam Kerr
    Warwick Estevam Kerr is a Brazilian agricultural engineer, geneticist, entomologist, professor and scientific leader, notable for his discoveries in the genetics and sex determination of bees. The Africanized bee in the western hemisphere is directly descended from 26 Tanzanian queen bees Warwick...

  • Wladimir Lobato Paraense
  • Zilton Araujo Andrade

Engineering
Engineering
Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...

  • Caspar Erich Stemmer
  • Evando Mirra de Paula e Silva
  • Luiz Bevilacqua
    Luiz Bevilacqua
    Luiz Bevilacqua is an important Brazilian scientist best known for his work as President of the Brazilian Space Agency and as Secretary General of the Ministry of Science and Technology...

  • Luiz Gylvan Meira Filho
  • Ozires Silva
    Ozires Silva
    Ozires Silva is the founder of Embraer and a famous Brazilian entrepreneur.Ozires graduated on Escola de Aeronáutica do Campo dos Afonsos as a military pilot...

  • Reginaldo dos Santos
  • Sandoval Carneiro Junior
  • Sérgio Xavier Ferolla
  • Walter Arno Mannheimer
  • João Pedro de Carvalho Neto
  • Julio Castanhedo Farias

Earth Science
Earth science
Earth science is an all-embracing term for the sciences related to the planet Earth. It is arguably a special case in planetary science, the Earth being the only known life-bearing planet. There are both reductionist and holistic approaches to Earth sciences...

  • Adolpho José Melfi
  • Antonio Carlos Rocha Campos
  • Aziz Nacib Ab'Saber
  • Cândido Simões Ferreira
  • Eneas Salati
  • Fernando Flávio Marques de Almeida
    Fernando Flávio Marques de Almeida
    Fernando Flávio Marques de Almeida is a Brazilian Geologist. Almeida did the central works to understand the South American geology: son of the first Brazilian generation of geologists did the pioners papers of the continent's geology He is considered to be one of the top Brazilians in geology and...

  • Hilgard O'Reilly Sternberg
  • Irajá Damiani Pinto
    Irajá Damiani Pinto
    Irajá Damiani Pinto, born in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on July 3, 1919 and currently still working with Paleontology. - Biography:...

  • João José Bigarella
  • Milton Luiz Laquintinie Formoso
  • Rui Ribeiro Franco
  • Umberto Giuseppe Cordani

Physics
Physics
Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...

  • Affonso Augusto Guidão Gomes
  • Alaor Silvério Chaves
  • Amós Troper
  • Argus Fagundes Ourique Moreira
  • Carlos Alberto Aragão de Carvalho Filho
  • Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz
    Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz
    Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, born in Rio de Janeiro on July 19 1956, is a Brazilian electronic engineer and physicist, and the current scientific director of FAPESP...

  • Cylon Eudóxio Tricot Gonçalves da Silva
  • Fernando Cláudio Zawislak
  • Francisco César de Sá Barreto
  • Gerhard Jacob
  • Herch Moysés Nussenzveig
    Herch Moysés Nussenzveig
    Herch Moysés Nussenzveig is a Brazilian physicist, professor at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences...

  • Jayme Tiomno
    Jayme Tiomno
    Jayme Tiomno , was a Brazilian experimental and theoretical physicist with interests in particle physics and general relativity. He was member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and a recipient of the Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit...

  • José Antônio de Freitas Pacheco
  • José Fernando Perez
  • José Goldemberg
    José Goldemberg
    José Goldemberg , a Brazilian physicist, university educator, scientific leader and research scientist, is a leading expert on energy end environment issues....

  • Luiz Davidovich
  • Marcelo Damy de Souza Santos
    Marcelo Damy de Souza Santos
    Marcelo Damy de Sousa Santos was a Brazilian physicist.Considered as one of the most important educators and researchers in physics in Brazil, along with Cesar Lattes, José Leite Lopes and Mario Schenberg, Damy was born in Campinas, São Paulo in 1914, the son of Harald Egydio de Souza Santos a...

  • Oscar Sala
    Oscar Sala
    Oscar Sala , Italian-Brazilian nuclear physicist and important scientific leader, Emeritus Professor of the Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo....

  • Ramayana Gazzinelli
  • Roberto Aureliano Salmerón
  • Samuel Wallace MacDowell
  • Sergio Machado Rezende
  • Sérgio Mascarenhas de Oliveira
    Sérgio Mascarenhas de Oliveira
    Sérgio Mascarenhas de Oliveira is a noted Brazilian experimental physicist, educator and scientific leader.Dr. Mascarenhas has been awarded the Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit in the categories of Commander and Great Cross , and several national and international prizes including, more...

  • Theodor August Johannes Maris

Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

  • Aloísio Pessoa de Araújo
  • César Leopoldo Camacho
  • Djairo Guedes de Figueiredo
  • Elon Lages Lima
    Elon Lages Lima
    Elon Lages Lima is a Brazilian mathematician specializing in topology. Lima is professor emeritus at Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada of which he was the director during three separate periods. Currently he is the Chief Scientific Researcher of that institution...

  • Imre Simon
    Imre Simon
    Imre Simon was a Hungarian-born Brazilian mathematician and computer scientist. His research mainly focused on theoretical computer science, Automata theory, and tropical mathematics, a subject he founded, and which was so named because he lived in Brazil. He was a professor of mathematics at the...

  • Jacob Palis Junior
  • João Lucas Marques Barbosa
  • Jorge Manuel Sotomayor Tello
  • Manfredo Perdigão do Carmo
  • Marcelo Miranda Viana da Silva
  • Maurício Matos Peixoto
  • Sylvio Ferraz-Mello
  • Welington Celso de Melo

Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....

  • Alaíde Braga de Oliveira
  • Angelo da Cunha Pinto
  • Cláudio Airoldi
  • Eloisa Biasotto Mano
  • Gilberto Fernandes de Sá
  • Hernan Chaimovich Guralnik
  • José Manuel Riveros Nigra :pt:José Manuel Riveros Nigra
  • Manuel Mateus Ventura
    Manuel Mateus Ventura
    Manuel Mateus Ventura is a Brazilian biophysicist.He is professor emeritus at University of Brasilia. His research activity has been focused on physicochemical aspects and structure of proteins...

  • Nicola Petragnani
  • Otto Richard Gottlieb
  • Paschoal Ernesto Américo Senise
  • Ricardo de Carvalho Ferreira
  • Roy Edward Bruns
  • Walter Baptist Mors
  • Walter Colli
  • Yvonne Primerano Mascarenhas

Social and Human Sciences

  • Antonio Cândido de Mello e Souza
    Antônio Candido
    Antonio Candido de Mello e Souza was born in Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais, Brazil, on July 24, 1918. He is a writer, professor, and literary critic. He was the co-winner of the Prêmio Jabuti for essays in 1965.-Partial bibliography:...

  • Carlos Francisco Theodoro Machado Ribeiro de Lessa
  • Elisa Maria da Conceição Pereira Reis
  • Elza Salvatori Berquó
  • Evaldo Cabral de Mello
    Evaldo Cabral de Mello
    Evaldo Cabral de Mello is a Brazilian historian, history writer and former diplomat, considered to be one of the most important Brazilian historians of the twentieth century.He studied the philosophy of history in Madrid and London...

  • Fábio Wanderley Reis
  • Fernando Antônio Novais
  • Gilberto Cardoso Alves Velho
  • Helio Jaguaribe Gomes de Mattos
  • Jacques Marcovitch
  • José Arthur Giannotti
  • José Murilo de Carvalho
  • Juarez Rubens Brandão Lopes
  • Leôncio Martins Rodrigues
  • Luciano Martins de Almeida
  • Luiz de Castro Faria
  • Otávio Guilherme Cardoso Alves Velho
  • Roberto Augusto DaMatta
  • Roberto Cardoso de Oliveira
  • Simon Schwartzman
    Simon Schwartzman
    Simon Schwartzman is a Brazilian social scientist. He has published extensively, with many books, book chapters and academic articles in the areas of comparative politics, sociology of science, social policy, and education...

  • Wanderley Guilherme dos Santos

Technology
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...

  • Alberto Luiz Galvão Coimbra
  • Alberto Pereira de Castro
  • Carlos José Pereira de Lucena
  • João Antonio Zuffo
  • Marcio Nogueira Barbosa
  • Marcos José Marques
  • Othon Luiz Pinheiro da Silva
  • Tércio Pacitti
    Tércio Pacitti
    Tércio Pacitti is a electronic engineer and computer scientist in Brazil.- Biography :Pacitti was born in Piracicaba-SP, where he did his basic studies at the Colégio Piracicabano. He graduated as aeronautical engineer from ITA, first in the class of 1952, having completed a Masters and Ph.D. at...

  • Walter Borzani

Foreign personalities

  • Alfred Gavin Maddock
  • Amartya Kumar Sen
  • Andrew John George Simpson
  • Armando José Ponce de Leão Policarpo
  • Benjamin Gilbert
  • Brian Frederick Gilbert Johnson
  • Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao
  • Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
    Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
    Claude Cohen-Tannoudji is a French physicist and Nobel Laureate. He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics with Steven Chu and William Daniel Phillips for research in methods of laser cooling and trapping atoms...

  • Claude Lévi-Strauss
    Claude Lévi-Strauss
    Claude Lévi-Strauss was a French anthropologist and ethnologist, and has been called, along with James George Frazer, the "father of modern anthropology"....

  • Daniel Bernard Nahon
  • Daniel G. Colley
  • Daniel Saul Goldin
  • Dario Braga
  • David Henry Peter Maybury-Lewis
  • David James Waddington
  • David Pierre Ruelle
  • Dennis Parnell Sullivan
  • Dieter Hans Herbert Kind
  • Federico Mayor Zaragoza
  • George Edward Schuh
  • Georges Pédro
  • Gerd Kohlhepp
  • Ghillean Tolmie Prance (Sir)
  • Harold Max Rosenberg
    Harold Max Rosenberg
    Harold Max Rosenberg , was a distinguished experimental physicist who is notable for two successful textbooks: Low Temperature Solid State Physics and The Solid State and over one hundred papers mainly about the electrical, thermal and mechanical properties of solids, especially at low...

  • Henri Jean François Dumont
  • Igor Saavedra
  • Jacques Friedel
    Jacques Friedel
    Jacques Friedel FMRS is a French physicist and material scientist.-Life:His great-grand father Charles Friedel was an organic chemist and crystallographer at Paris-Sorbonne University, his grand-father Georges Friedel worked on liquid crystals, and his father Edmond Friedel was the director of the...

  • James Alexander Ratter
  • Jean Kovalevsky
  • Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
    Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
    Jean-Christophe Yoccoz is a French mathematician. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1994, for his work on dynamical systems.-Biography:...

  • John Norman Mather
  • Jorge Eduardo Allende Rivera
  • Kenneth Maxwell
    Kenneth Maxwell
    Kenneth Robert Maxwell is a British historian who specializes in Iberia and Latin America. A longtime member of the Council on Foreign Relations, for fifteen years he headed its Latin America Studies Program...

  • Leon M. Lederman
    Leon M. Lederman
    Leon Max Lederman is an American experimental physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work with neutrinos. He is Director Emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, USA...

  • Liu Jiyuan
  • Mário João de Oliveira Ruivo
  • Mohamed Hag Ali Hassan
  • Norman Ernest Borlaug
  • Oscar Armando Quihillalt
  • Paul Alexander Schweitzer
  • Phillip A. Griffiths
  • Richard Darwin Keynes
  • Rita Levi Montalcini
  • Robert Bruce Goldberg
  • Roy Edward Bruns
  • Salvador Henrique Moncada
  • Stephen Smale
    Stephen Smale
    Steven Smale a.k.a. Steve Smale, Stephen Smale is an American mathematician from Flint, Michigan. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966, and spent more than three decades on the mathematics faculty of the University of California, Berkeley .-Education and career:He entered the University of...

  • Terence John Quinn
  • Thomas Eugene Lovejoy
  • Walter Baltensperger
  • Werner Arber
    Werner Arber
    Werner Arber is a Swiss microbiologist and geneticist. Along with American researchers Hamilton Smith and Daniel Nathans, Werner Arber shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of restriction endonucleases...

  • William Sefton Fyfe
  • Wolfgang Johannes Junk
  • Yakov Grigorevich Sinai

National personalities

  • Abílio Afonso Baeta Neves
  • Adib Domingos Jatene
    Adib Domingos Jatene
    Adib Domingos Jatene is a noted Brazilian physician of Lebanese background, university professor, scientist and thoracic surgeon, one of the founders of the University of São Paulo Heart Institute and internationally respected as the inventor of the Jatene operation, a technique to correct...

  • Aécio Neves da Cunha
  • Alcides Lopes Tápias
  • Aldo Vieira da Rosa
  • Ângela Tonelli Vaz Leão
  • Antônio Cesar Russi Callegari
  • Antônio Ermírio de Moraes
    Antônio Ermírio de Moraes
    Antônio Ermírio de Moraes is a Brazilian businessman who is the chairman of the Votorantim Group; one of the country's largest companies, specialized in metals, paper, cement and frozen orange juice...

  • Carlos Américo Pacheco
  • Carlos Ivan Simonsen Leal
  • Celina Vargas do Amaral Peixoto
  • Celso Lafer
    Celso Lafer
    Celso Lafer, born August 7, 1941 is a Brazilian jurist, full professor of Philosophy of Law at University of São Paulo, twice former foreign minister and a former commerce minister.-Education:...

  • Celso Luiz Nunes Amorim
  • Cristovam Ricardo Cavalcanti Buarque
  • David Zylbersztajn
  • Dorothea Fonseca Furquim Werneck
  • Edson Machado de Sousa
  • Edson Vaz Musa
  • Eduardo Henrique Accioly Campos
  • Elcio Alvares
    Élcio Álvares
    Élcio Álvares is a Brazilian politician.He was a Federal Deputy for the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies for the State of Espírito Santo , governor of the State of Espírito Santo , Senator , Minister of Commerce during the Franco administration, and Minister of Defence during the Cardoso...

  • Eliseu Roberto de Andrade Alves
  • Fábio Konder Comparato
    Fábio Konder Comparato
    Fábio Konder Comparato is a Brazilian lawyer, jurist and writer. He is a retired full professor of Commercial Law and Philosophy of Law at University of São Paulo. He holds a doctor's degree from University of Paris and an honorary doctorate from University of Coimbra.-References:...

  • Fernando Haddad
    Fernando Haddad
    Fernando Haddad is a Brazilian academic and politician of Lebanese origin. He is currently the Minister of Education in the cabinet of Dilma Rousseff..-Biography:...

  • Fernando Henrique Cardoso
    Fernando Henrique Cardoso
    Fernando Henrique Cardoso – also known by his initials FHC – was the 34th President of the Federative Republic of Brazil for two terms from January 1, 1995 to December 31, 2002. He is an accomplished sociologist, professor and politician...

  • Fernando Luiz Gonçalves Bezerra
  • Flavio Fava de Moraes
  • Francisco Oswaldo Neves Dornelles
  • Geraldo Magela da Cruz Quintão
  • Heitor Gurgulino de Souza
  • Itamar Augusto Cautiero Franco
  • Jorge Gerdau Johannpeter
  • José Anibal Peres Pontes
  • José Botafogo Gonçalves
  • José Ephim Mindlin
  • José Israel Vargas
  • José Mauro Esteves dos Santos
  • Lindolpho de Carvalho Dias
  • Luciano Brandão Alves de Souza
  • Luciano Galvão Coutinho
  • Luís Manuel Rebelo Fernandes
  • Luiz Felipe Palmeira Lampreia
  • Luiz Fernando Furlan
  • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
    Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
    Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva , known popularly as Lula, served as the 35th President of Brazil from 2003 to 2010.A founding member of the Workers' Party , he ran for President three times unsuccessfully, first in the 1989 election. Lula achieved victory in the 2002 election, and was inaugurated as...

  • Márcio Ibrahim de Carvalho
  • Marco Antonio de Oliveira Maciel
    Marco Maciel
    Marco Antônio de Oliveira Maciel is a Brazilian politician. He is a lawyer and a law school professor. He was a founder of the conservative PFL party, former ARENA and was twice elected vice-president in the same ticket as center-right President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, in 1994 and 1998...

  • Marcus Vinícius Pratini de Moraes
  • Martus Antônio Rodrigues Tavares
  • Mauro Marcondes Rodrigues
  • Múcio Roberto Dias
  • Murílio de Avellar Hingel
  • Niède Guidon
    Niède Guidon
    Niède Guidon is a Brazilian archaeologist who was born on the 12 March 1933 in Jaú, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. She has won international recognition and support for her struggle to protect Brazil's rich archaeological heritage....

  • Oscar Niemeyer
    Oscar Niemeyer
    Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho is a Brazilian architect specializing in international modern architecture...

  • Paulo Nogueira Neto
  • Paulo Renato de Souza
  • Pedro Sampaio Malan
  • Roberto Átila Amaral Vieira
  • Roberto João Pereira Freire
  • Ronaldo Mota Sardenberg
    Ronaldo Mota Sardenberg
    Ronaldo Mota Sardenberg is a Brazilian diplomat and politician.-Foreign service:Sardenberg joined the Brazilian Foreign Service in 1964. He was the Chargé d'affaires of Brazil to the Soviet Union in 1982; and Ambassador in Moscow from 1985 to 1989...

  • Sergio Silva do Amaral
  • Tarso Fernando Herz Genro
  • Tuiskon Dick
  • Ubirajara Pereira de Brito

Agriculture
Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...

  • Bernardo van Raij
  • Elliot Watanabe Kitajima
  • Franke Dijkstra
  • Manoel Henrique Pereira
  • Rodolfo Rumpf

Biology
Biology
Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...

  • Adalberto Luis Val
  • Adelmar Faria Coimbra-Filho
  • Aída Hassón-Voloch
  • Almiro Blumenschein
  • Ana Maria de Lauro Castrucci
  • Ângelo Barbosa Monteiro Machado
  • Anibal Eugenio Vercesi Mijardino
  • Antoniana Ursine Krettli
  • Antônio Rodrigues Cordeiro
  • Ariane Luna Peixoto
  • Artur Beltrame Ribeiro
  • Bernardo Beiguelman
  • Carlos Alfredo Joly
  • Cláudio Augusto Machado Sampaio
  • Clovis Teixeira
  • Conceição Ribeiro da Silva Machado
  • Darcy Fontoura de Almeida
  • Durval Rosa Borges
  • Eder Carlos Rocha Quintão
  • Edgar Marcelino de Carvalho Filho
  • Edson Xavier Albuquerque
  • Eduardo Perna Fraca
  • Eliane Rocinante
  • Elibio Leopoldo Rech Filho
  • Eliezer Jesus de Lacerda Barreiro
  • Eloi de Souza Garcia
  • Fernando de Castro Farias
  • Fernando Garcia de Mello
  • Flávio Moscardi
  • Francisco Lacaz de Moraes Vieira
  • Frederico Guilherme Graeff
  • George Alexandre dos Reis
  • Gilberto Mendes de Oliveira Castro
  • Glauce Socorro de Barros Viana
  • Guilherme Suarez Calmo Curto
  • Helena Bonciani Nada
  • Henrique Krieger
  • Horacio Schneider
  • Hugo Aguirre Armelin
  • Isaac Roitman
  • Ivan da Mota e Albuquerque
  • Jerson Lima Silva e Faperjica
  • João Batista Calixto
  • Jorge Almeida Guimarães Imperador
  • Jorge Elias Kalil Filho
  • José Roberto Postali Parra
  • José Rodrigues Coura
  • Leda Cristina Santana Mendonça-Hagler
  • Leny Alves Cavalcante Por Que Ta Aqui
  • Lewis Joel Greene
    Lewis Joel Greene
    Lewis Joel Greene is an American Brazilian biochemist, scientist, university professor and editor of the Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research....

  • Lucia Mendonça Previato
  • Lucia Willadino Braga
  • Luiz Carlos de Lima Silveira
  • Luiz Carlos Uchôa Junqueira
  • Manassés Claudino Fonteles
  • Manoel Barral Netto
  • Marcello André Barcinski
  • Marco Antonio Zago
    Marco Antonio Zago
    Marco Antonio Zago is a Brazilian physician and prominent medical scientist, who is active in the fields of hereditary diseases of the blood , molecular basis of cancer and human population genetics. Since 2007 he is also the president of the Brazilian National Research Council .Dr...

  • Marcos Antonio Machado
  • Marcus Vinicius Gomez
  • Maria Lucia Absy
  • Maria Marques
    Maria Marques
    Maria Cecília Marques is a female water polo player from Brazil, who won the bronze medal with the Brazil women's national water polo team at the 2003 Pan American Games. She played in a defending role in the national squad....

  • Metry Bacila
  • Moacyr Maestri
  • Nanuza Luiza de Menezes
  • Nestor Schor
  • Protásio Lemos da Luz
  • Rafael Linden
  • Renato Hélios Migliorini
  • Reynaldo Luiz Victória
  • Ricardo Nevertheless
  • Roberto Lentilha
  • Roland Vencovsky
  • Rubens Belfort Mattos Junior
  • Rui Monteiro de Barros Maciel
  • Ruy de Araújo Caldas
  • Sérgio Danilo Junho Pena
  • Sérgio Peixeira Parreira
  • Sergio Veja que Almeida
  • Shirley Estraga Tudo
  • Sonia Machado de Campos Dietrich
  • Ulysses Fagundes Neto
  • Vivaldo Moura Bisneto
  • Walter Meu Deus Que Isso
  • Willy Beçak
  • Wilmar Dias da Silva

Engineering
Engineering
Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...

  • Álvaro Toubes Prata
  • Carlos Alberto Schneider
  • Edson Hirokazu Watanabe
  • Eduardo Galvão Moura Jardim
  • Eggon João da Silva
  • Eloi Fernández y Fernández
  • Ergílio Cláudio-da-Silva Jr.
  • Ernesto Heinzelmann
  • Fernando Cosme Rizzo Assunção
  • Giulio Massarani
  • Hans Ingo Weber
  • Helio Waldman
    Helio Waldman
    Helio Waldman is a Brazilian scientist best known for his work as rector of the Universidade Federal do ABC, UFABC and as dean of research at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Unicamp...

  • Jayme Boscov
  • Jerzy Zbigniew Leopold Lepecki
  • José Corgosinho de Carvalho Filho
  • Juarez Távora Veado
  • Leonardo Goldstein Junior
  • Liu Hsu
  • Marcelo Gattass
  • Mário Jorge Ferreira Braga
  • Milton Vargas
  • Nelson Francisco Favilla Ebecken
  • Nelson Luiz de Sousa Pinto
  • Nelson Maculan Filho
  • Raúl Antonino Feijóo
  • Renato Carlson
  • Rex Nazaré Alves
  • Rubens Sampaio Filho
  • Tharcisio Damy de Souza Santos
  • Valder Steffen Jr.
  • Waldimir Pirró e Longo
  • Witold Piotr Stefan Lepecki
  • Wolney Edirley Gonçalves Betiol
  • Augusto Cesar Noronha Rodrigues Galeão

Earth Science
Earth science
Earth science is an all-embracing term for the sciences related to the planet Earth. It is arguably a special case in planetary science, the Earth being the only known life-bearing planet. There are both reductionist and holistic approaches to Earth sciences...

  • Alcides Nóbrega Sial
  • Carlos Afonso Nobre
  • Carlos Clementi Cerri
  • Celso de Barros Gomes
  • Diogenes de Almeida Campos
  • Igor Ivory Gil Pacca
  • José Moacyr Vianna Coutinho
  • Kenitiro Suguio
  • Luis de Oliveira Castro
  • Paulo Milton Barbosa Landim
  • Pedro Leite da Silva Dias
  • Reinhardt Adolfo Fuck
  • Roberto Dall'Agnol
  • Setembrino Petri
  • Wilson Teixeira

Physics
Physics
Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...

  • Adalberto Vasquez
  • Alberto Franco de Sá Santoro
  • Alberto Passos Guimarães Filho
  • Alfredo Miguel Ozorio de Almeida
  • Antônio Cesar Olinto de Oliveira
  • Antonio Fernando Ribeiro de Toledo Piza
  • Beatriz Leonor Silveira Barbuy
  • Belita Koiller
  • Celso Pinto de Melo
  • Cid Bartolomeu de Araújo
  • Constantino Tsallis
    Constantino Tsallis
    Constantino Tsallis is a naturalized Brazilian physicist working in Rio de Janeiro at CBPF, Brazil. He was born in Greece, and grew up in Argentina, where he studied physics at Instituto Balseiro, in Bariloche. In 1974 he received a Doctorat d'Etat et Sciences Physiques degree from the University...

  • Eduardo Cantera Marino
  • Erasmo Madureira Ferreira
  • Ernst Wolfgang Hamburger
  • Francisco Antonio Bezerra Coutinho
  • Helion Vargas
  • Humberto Siqueira Brandi
  • João Alziro Herz da Jornada
  • João Carlos Costa dos Anjos
  • João E. Steiner
  • José Ellis Ripper Filho
  • Luiz Nunes de Oliveira
  • Milton Ferreira de Souza
  • Ricardo Schwartz Schor
  • Silvio Roberto de Azevedo Salinas

Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

  • Abimael Fernando Dourado Loula
  • Alfredo Noel Iusem
  • Antonio Galves
  • Arnaldo Leite Pinto Garcia
  • Aron Simis
    Aron Simis
    Aron Simis was born in Recife, Brazil in 1942. He is presently full professor at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil, and Class A research scholarship recipient from the Brazilian Research Council. He earned his PhD from Queen's University, Canada....

  • Artur Oscar Lopes
  • Carlos Teobaldo Gutierrez Vidalon
  • Celso José da Costa
  • Chaim Samuel Hönig
  • Clovis Caesar Gonzaga
  • Dan Marchesin
  • Hilário Alencar da Silva
  • Israel Vainsencher
  • Keti Tenenblat
  • Luiz Velho
  • Marcio Gomes Soares
  • Marco Antonio Raupp
  • Paulo Domingos Cordaro
  • Renato de Azevedo Tribuzy

Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....

  • Anita Dolly Panek
    Anita Dolly Panek
    Anita Dolly Haubenstock Panek is a Brazilian biochemist. She emigrated to Brazil because of World War II. She received a B.Sc. in Chemistry, 1954 and a Ph.D. in 1962...

  • Blanka Wladislaw
  • Carlos Alberto Lombardi Filgueiras
  • Cláudio Costa Neto
  • Elias Ayres Guidetti Zagatto
  • Etelvino José Henriques Bechara
  • Eurípedes Malavolta
  • Faruk José Nome Aguilera
  • Henrique Eisi Toma
  • Jailson Bittencourt de Andrade
  • João Valdir Comasseto
  • José Ferreira Fernandes
  • Marco Antonio Chaer do Nascimento
  • Marco-Aurelio De Paoli
  • Oswaldo Luiz Alves
  • Oswaldo Sala
  • Paulo Arruda
  • Paulo Sérgio Santos
  • Raimundo Braz Filho
  • Walter Ribeiro Terra

Social and Human Sciences

  • Alzira Alves de Abreu
  • Ana Lucia Almeida Gazzola
  • Ana Mae Tavares Bastos Barbosa
  • Ana Maria Fernandes
  • Betty Mindlin
  • Boris Fausto
  • Carlos Alberto Vogt
  • Carlos Rodrigues Brandão
  • Eunice Ribeiro Durham
  • Gláucio Ary Dillon Soares
  • Hélgio Henrique Casses Trindade
  • Isnard Garcia de Freitas
  • João José Reis
  • Julio Cezar Melatti
  • Laura Mello e Souza
  • Lourdes Sola
  • Luiz Felipe de Alencastro
  • Luiz Fernando Dias Duarte
  • Manoel Correia de Oliveira Andrade
  • Margarida de Souza Neves
  • Maria Manuela Ligeti Carneiro da Cunha
  • Marilena de Souza Chauí
  • Mariza Gomes e Souza Peirano
  • Max Justo Guedes
  • Norma Góes Monteiro
  • Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro
    Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro
    Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro is a Brazilian diplomat and legal scholar.Within the United Nations System, he serves as the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar....

  • Renato de Andrade Lessa
  • Renato Janine Ribeiro
    Renato Janine Ribeiro
    Renato Janine Ribeiro is a Brazilian political philosopher and full professor of ethics and political philosophy at the University of São Paulo.-References:...

  • Ricardo Paes de Barros
  • Roque de Barros Laraia
  • Rosa Ester Rossini
  • Ruben George Oliven
  • Ruth Corrêa Leite Cardoso
  • Sergio Miceli Pessôa de Barros
  • Ulpiano Toledo Bezerra de Meneses
  • Yonne de Freitas Leite

Technology
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...

  • Alcídio Abrão
  • Hans Gerhard Schorer
  • José Paulo Silveira
  • Margareth Spangler Andrade
  • Paulo Gazzinelli
  • Pedro José Diniz Figueiredo
  • Silvio Romero de Lemos Meira
  • Tomasz Kowaltowski
  • Walmor Krause

Foreign personalities

  • Charles Roland Clement
  • Eduardo Feller
  • Francesco Mercuri
  • Gérard Xavier Kuhn
  • Ilse Walker
  • Jean-Jacques Salomon
  • José Marques Correia Neves
  • Karl Otto Stöhr
  • Munirathna Anandakrishnan
  • Robert W. Corell

National personalities

  • Adão Roberto Rodrigues Villaverde
  • Adélia Maria Engrácia G. de O. Rodrigues
  • Afrânio Carvalho Aguiar
  • Albanita Viana de Oliveira
  • Alberto de Carvalho Peixoto de Azevedo
  • Alexandre Campello de Siqueira
  • Alice Rangel de Paiva Abreu
  • Américo Martins Craveiro
  • Amilcar Figueira Ferrari
  • Antônio Augusto Dayrell de Lima
  • Antonio Gervásio Colares
  • Antônio Maria Amazonas Mac Dowell
  • Antonio Sérgio Pizarro Fragomeni
  • Ariano Suassuna
    Ariano Suassuna
    Ariano Suassuna is a Brazilian playwright and author.He is in the "Movemento Amorial". He founded the Student Theater at Federal University of Pernambuco....

  • Cláudio José Marinho Lúcio
  • Claudio Luiz Fróes Raeder
  • Francisco Ariosto Holanda
  • Hélio Guedes de Campos Barros
  • Henrique Gomes de Paiva Lins de Barros
  • Hermann Heinemann Wever
  • Ivan Moura Campos
  • Jerson Kelman
  • João Roberto Rodrigues
  • John Milne Albuquerque Forman
  • José Augusto Guilhon de Albuquerque
  • José dos Prazeres Ferreira
  • Lourival Carmo Monaco
  • Lucia Carvalho Pinto de Melo
  • Luiz Philippe da Costa Fernandes
  • Márcio Quintão Moreno
  • Marcionilo de Barros Lins
  • Marcos Antonio Sacramento de Oliveira
  • Maria Aparecida Stalliveri Neves
  • Maria Helena Guimarães de Castro
  • Maria Laura da Rocha
  • Marilia Sardenberg Zelner Gonçalves
  • Mario Brockmann Machado
  • Marisa Barbar Cassim
  • Maurício Otávio Mendonça Jorge
  • Oscar Soto Lorenzo Fernandez
  • Oskar Klingl
  • Oswaldo Moreira Douat
  • Ozório José de Menezes Fonseca
  • Paulo Alcântara Gomes
  • Paulo de Góes Filho
  • Pedro Magalhães Guimarães Ferreira
  • Regina Weinberg
  • Sergio de Almeida Bruni
  • Simone Henriqueta Cossetin Scholze
  • Stefan Bogdan Salej
  • Tânia Bacelar de Araújo
  • Wrana Maria Panizzi

Deceased

  • Álvaro Santos Costa
  • Aristides Azevedo Pacheco Leão
  • Carl Peter von Dietrich
  • Carlos Chagas Filho
    Carlos Chagas Filho
    Carlos Chagas Filho was a Brazilian physician, biologist and scientist active in the field of neuroscience. He was internationally renowned for his investigations on the neural mechanisms underlying the phenomenon of electrogenesis by the electroplaques of electric fishes...

  • Cesar Timo-Iaría
  • Graziela Maciel Barroso
  • Haity Moussatché
  • Henrique Bergamin Filho
  • Herman Lent
  • Johanna Döbereiner
    Johanna Döbereiner
    Johanna Liesbeth Kubelka Döbereiner was a Brazilian agronomist. Her family were German Czechoslovakians who left the country after World War II. She received her degree from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, but settled in Brazil and became a Brazilian citizen in 1956...

  • José Candido de Melo de Carvalho
  • José Márcio Corrêa Ayres
  • José Ribeiro do Valle
  • Luiz Rachid Trabulsi
  • Marcos Luiz dos Mares Guia
  • Paulo Sawaya
  • Wilson Teixeira Beraldo
    Wilson Teixeira Beraldo
    Wilson Teixeira Beraldo was a Brazilian physician and physiologist, a co-discoverer of bradykinin....

  • Zigman Brener
  • Amaro Lanari Júnior
  • Elysiario Távora Filho
  • Mario Abrantes da Silva Pinto
  • Bernhard Gross
  • Cesar Lattes
    César Lattes
    Cesare Mansueto Giulio Lattes , also known as Cesar Lattes, was a Brazilian experimental physicist, one of the discoverers of the pion, a composite subatomic particle made of a quark and an antiquark.-Life:Lattes was born to a family of Italian Jewish immigrants in Curitiba, Southern Brazil...

  • José Leite Lopes
    José Leite Lopes
    José Leite Lopes , noted Brazilian theoretical physicist in the field of quantum field theory and particle physics.-Life:...

  • Antonio Cechelli de Mattos Paiva
  • Francisco Jeronymo Salles Lara
  • Giuseppe Cilento
    Giuseppe Cilento
    Giuseppe Cilento was a Brazilian chemist who was born in Italy. He held a professorship at the University of São Paulo and was Professor Emeritus at the State University of Campinas....

  • José Moura Gonçalves
    José Moura Gonçalves
    José Moura Gonçalves , Brazilian physician, biomedical scientist, biochemist and educator, one of the pioneers of biochemistry in the country....

  • Celso Monteiro Furtado
  • Francisco Iglesias
  • Mario Henrique Simonsen
  • Casimiro Montenegro Filho
    Casimiro Montenegro Filho
    Casimiro Montenegro Filho was a Brazilian army and air force officer. He reached the rank of Marechal-do-ar, the highest rank of the Brazilian Air Force rank system....

  • Fernando Luiz Lobo Barboza Carneiro
  • Abdus Salam
    Abdus Salam
    Mohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk Mohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk Mohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk (Urdu: محمد عبد السلام, pronounced , (January 29, 1926– November 21, 1996) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on the electroweak unification of the...

  • Harald Felix Ludwig Sioli
  • Henry Taube
    Henry Taube
    Henry Taube, Ph.D, M.Sc, B.Sc, FRSC was a Canadian-born American chemist noted for having been awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "his work in the mechanisms of electron-transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes." He was the first Canadian-born chemist to win the Nobel Prize...

  • Juan José Giambiagi
    Juan José Giambiagi
    -References:*...

  • Michael Robert Herman
  • René Thom
    René Thom
    René Frédéric Thom was a French mathematician. He made his reputation as a topologist, moving on to aspects of what would be called singularity theory; he became world-famous among the wider academic community and the educated general public for one aspect of this latter interest, his work as...

  • Richard McGee Morse
    Richard McGee Morse
    Richard "Dick" McGee Morse, Ph.D. was a Latin Americanist scholar and professor at Columbia University, University of Puerto Rico, Yale University and Stanford University before finishing his career at the Wilson Center in Washington DC.Morse was born in Summit, New Jersey, United States, but...

  • Shiing-Shen Chern
    Shiing-Shen Chern
    Shiing-Shen Chern was a Chinese American mathematician, one of the leaders in differential geometry of the twentieth century.-Early years in China:...

  • William Donald Hamilton
  • Alberto Carvalho da Silva
  • Carolina Martuscelli Bori
  • José Pelúcio Ferreira
  • José Reis
    José Reis
    José Reis was a noted Brazilian scientist, journalist, scientific leader and science writer....

  • Vilmar Evangelista Faria
  • Carlos Ribeiro Diniz
  • Fernando Braga Ubatuba
  • Luiz Fernando Gouvêa Labouriau
  • Mario Ulysses Vianna Dias
  • Naíde Regueira Teodósio
  • Francisco Romeu Landi
  • José Roberto Leite
  • Candido Lima da Silva Dias
  • Ernesto Giesbrecht
  • Berta Gleiser Ribeiro
  • Milton Almeida dos Santos

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