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
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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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BiologyBiologyBiology 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 SaldanhaJoão SaldanhaJoão 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 GazzinelliGiovanni GazzinelliGiovanni 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 ZatzMayana ZatzMayana 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-PessoaOswaldo Frota-PessoaOswaldo 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 AlvimPaulo de Tarso AlvimPaulo 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 KerrWarwick Estevam KerrWarwick 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
EngineeringEngineeringEngineering 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 BevilacquaLuiz BevilacquaLuiz 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 SilvaOzires SilvaOzires 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 ScienceEarth scienceEarth 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 AlmeidaFernando Flávio Marques de AlmeidaFernando 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 PintoIrajá Damiani PintoIrajá 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
PhysicsPhysicsPhysics 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 CruzCarlos Henrique de Brito CruzCarlos 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 NussenzveigHerch Moysés NussenzveigHerch Moysés Nussenzveig is a Brazilian physicist, professor at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences...
- Jayme TiomnoJayme TiomnoJayme 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 GoldembergJosé GoldembergJosé 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 SantosMarcelo Damy de Souza SantosMarcelo 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 SalaOscar SalaOscar 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 OliveiraSérgio Mascarenhas de OliveiraSérgio 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
MathematicsMathematicsMathematics 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 LimaElon Lages LimaElon 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 SimonImre SimonImre 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
ChemistryChemistryChemistry 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 VenturaManuel Mateus VenturaManuel 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 SouzaAntônio CandidoAntonio 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 MelloEvaldo Cabral de MelloEvaldo 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 SchwartzmanSimon SchwartzmanSimon 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
TechnologyTechnologyTechnology 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 PacittiTércio PacittiTércio 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-TannoudjiClaude Cohen-TannoudjiClaude 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-StraussClaude Lévi-StraussClaude 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 RosenbergHarold Max RosenbergHarold 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 FriedelJacques FriedelJacques 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 YoccozJean-Christophe YoccozJean-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 MaxwellKenneth MaxwellKenneth 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. LedermanLeon M. LedermanLeon 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 SmaleStephen SmaleSteven 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 ArberWerner ArberWerner 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 JateneAdib Domingos JateneAdib 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 MoraesAntônio Ermírio de MoraesAntônio 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 LaferCelso LaferCelso 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 AlvaresÉlcio ÁlvaresÉlcio 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 ComparatoFábio Konder ComparatoFábio 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 HaddadFernando HaddadFernando 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 CardosoFernando Henrique CardosoFernando 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 SilvaLuiz Inácio Lula da SilvaLuiz 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 MacielMarco MacielMarco 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 GuidonNiède GuidonNiède 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 NiemeyerOscar NiemeyerOscar 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 SardenbergRonaldo Mota SardenbergRonaldo 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
AgricultureAgricultureAgriculture 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
BiologyBiologyBiology 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 GreeneLewis Joel GreeneLewis 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 ZagoMarco Antonio ZagoMarco 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 MarquesMaria MarquesMaria 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
EngineeringEngineeringEngineering 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 WaldmanHelio WaldmanHelio 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 ScienceEarth scienceEarth 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
PhysicsPhysicsPhysics 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 TsallisConstantino TsallisConstantino 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
MathematicsMathematicsMathematics 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
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- Jailson Bittencourt de Andrade
- João Valdir Comasseto
- José Ferreira Fernandes
- Marco Antonio Chaer do Nascimento
- Marco-Aurelio De Paoli
- Oswaldo Luiz Alves
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Social and Human Sciences
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- Ana Lucia Almeida Gazzola
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- 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
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- Manoel Correia de Oliveira Andrade
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- Mariza Gomes e Souza Peirano
- Max Justo Guedes
- Norma Góes Monteiro
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- Tomasz Kowaltowski
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Foreign personalities
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- Gérard Xavier Kuhn
- Ilse Walker
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- Karl Otto Stöhr
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- 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
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- Cláudio José Marinho Lúcio
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- Hermann Heinemann Wever
- Ivan Moura Campos
- Jerson Kelman
- João Roberto Rodrigues
- John Milne Albuquerque Forman
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- Lourival Carmo Monaco
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- Marcos Antonio Sacramento de Oliveira
- Maria Aparecida Stalliveri Neves
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Deceased
- Álvaro Santos Costa
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- Carl Peter von Dietrich
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- Zigman Brener
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- Elysiario Távora Filho
- Mario Abrantes da Silva Pinto
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- Luiz Fernando Gouvêa Labouriau
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- Francisco Romeu Landi
- José Roberto Leite
- Candido Lima da Silva Dias
- Ernesto Giesbrecht
- Berta Gleiser Ribeiro
- Milton Almeida dos Santos