Miguel Osório de Almeida (September 1, 1890; December 2, 1952. both in Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

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) was a noted Brazil

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ian physician

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 and scientist

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, brother of another scientist, Álvaro Osório de Almeida, both considered the fathers of modern physiology

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 in Brazil.

He studied medicine

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 at the Faculdade de Medicina do Rio de Janeiro which presently is part of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He was the chairman of physiology of the School of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine of Rio de Janeiro and of the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

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, the dean of the Universidade do Rio de Janeiro and member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters

Academia Brasileira de Letras

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He was author or co-author of several important studies on neurophysiology

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. He received the "Einstein Award" by the Brazilian Academy of Sciences

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 and the "Sicard Prize" by the French Academy of Medicine in Paris

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. He was also one of the inspirers of the foundation of the Brazilian Society of Physiology (1957) and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences

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