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• Adib Jatene, heart surgeon
• Adolfo Lutz, physician and pioneer of public health
• Alberto Santos-Dumont, aviator and inventor.
• Antônio Rebouças Filho, pioneer engineer and urbanist
• André Rebouças (1838-1898), pioneer engineer, brother of Antônio Rebouças Filho.
• Aristides Leão, physician and physiologist, discovered Leão's depression, a phenomenon of the nervous tissue
• Aurélio Buarque de Hollanda, historiographer and linguist
• Carlos Chagas, physician and biomedical scientist, discovered Chagas Disease.
• Carlos Chagas Filho, physician and physiologist, former president of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Son of Carlos Chagas.
• Celso Furtado, noted economist and ideologue of economy of developing nations
• César Lattes, experimental physicist, co-discoverer of meson-pi, a kind of atomic particle
• Eduardo Krieger, physician and physiologist, current president of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
• Ely Xavier, young researcher, won the national Cientistas de Amanhã prize in 2006 for your study on lead-exposed children
• 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.
• Florestan Fernandes (1920-1995), father of Brazilian sociology
• Gilberto Freyre (1900-1987), historiographer and sociologist
• Henrique da Rocha Lima,
• Hércules Florence, pioneer of photography
• Isaias Raw, physician, biochemist and scientific leader
• Ivan Izquierdo, physician and neuroscientist, discovered neural mechanisms of memory
• Jacob Palis, mathematician of international fame
• Jorge Stolfi, computer scientist, nowadays professor at UNICAMP
• Johanna Döbereiner (1924-2000), biologist of international fame, discoverer of the nitrogen fixation role of soil bacteria
• José Aristodemo Pinotti, physician and gynecologist, former president of the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
• 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 Reis, biologist, greatest Brazilian science writer
• Luiz Hildebrando Pereira da Silva, physician, infectologist and immunologist
• 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
• Marcos Pontes, first Brazilian astronaut, Expedition 13
• Mário Schenberg, one of the most noted theoretical physicists in the world
• 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
• 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 Emilio Vanzolini, zoologist
• Paulo Nogueira Neto, ecologist, zoologist and scientific leader
• Roberto Landell de Moura, pioneer of telephony
• Rogério César de Cerqueira Leite, physicist and scientific leader and writer
• Sérgio Henrique Ferreira, physician and pharmacologist, discovered the active principle of a new drug against hypertension
• Sonia Ambrosio de Nelson, journalist and sociologist.
• Vital Brazil, physician and scientist, discoverer of the antivenom for snakes and other venomous animals
• Warwick Estevam Kerr, geneticist, researcher on the biology and genetics of bees
• Wilson Teixeira Beraldo, co-discoverer of bradykinin
• Murylo Batista, famous immunologist, infectologist, and dermatologist

Adib Domingos Jatene is a noted Brazilian physician, 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 open heart surgery for revascularization of the myocardium. ... Cardiac surgery is surgery on the heart, typically to treat complications of ischemic heart disease (e. ... Adolfo Lutz Adolfo Lutz was a Brazilian physician, 1855-1940, father of tropical medicine and medical zoology in Brazil, and a pioneer epidemiologist and researcher in infectious diseases. ... Public health is concerned with threats to the overall health of a community based on population health analysis. ... Santos-Dumont in his trademark Panama hat. ... Aviation refers to flying using aircraft, machines designed by humans for atmospheric flight. ... André Rebouças (1838-1898) was a mulatto Brazilian engineer also known for his work in the abolitionist movement. ... Aristides de Azevedo Pacheco Leão (b. ... Nervous tissue is the fourth major class of vertebrate tissue. ... Carlos Justiniano Ribeiro Chagas (born July 9, 1879, Oliveira, Minas Gerais, Brazil; died November 8, 1934, Rio de Janeiro), was a Brazilian physician. ... Carlos Chagas Filho (b. ... The Pontifical Academy of Sciences was founded in 1936 under its current name by Pope Pius XI and is placed under the protection of the reigning Supreme Pontiff (the current Pope). ... Celso Monteiro Furtado (1920 - November 20, 2004) was one of the most influential Brazilian economists, and the most influential leftist economist that Brazil has ever had. ... A developing country is a country with low average income compared to the world average. ... César Lattes in 1987 Cesare Mansueto Giulio Lattes (b. ... Mesons of spin 1 form a nonet In particle physics, a meson is a strongly interacting boson, that is, it is a hadron with integral spin. ... Eduardo M. Krieger Eduardo Moacyr Krieger (b. ... Leonardo da Vincis Vitruvian Man, an important early achievement in the study of physiology. ... The Brazilian Academy of Sciences (Portuguese: Academia Brasileira de Ciências or ABC) is the national academy of Brazil. ... Ennio Candotti (b. ... Euryclides de Jesus Zerbini (10 May 1912, Guaratinguetá, São Paulo - 23 October 1993) was a noted Brazilian physician and foremost cardiac surgeon. ... Evandro Chagas (b. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Gilberto Freyre (1900-1987) was a Brazilian author, known for his 1933 sociological treatise Casa-Grande & Senzala (The Masters and the Slaves). ... Henrique da Rocha Lima (1879–1956) was a Brazilian physician, pathologist and infectologist. ... Antoine Hércule Romuald Florence (1804-1879) was a French-Brazilian painter and inventor, who became famous for being a predecessor of the invention of photography. ... Cameron Frost is a good photographer! Photography is the process of making pictures by means of capturing light on a film. ... Drawing of the cells in the chicken cerebellum by S. Ramón y Cajal Neuroscience is a field that is devoted to the scientific study of the nervous system. ... For other uses, see Memory (disambiguation). ... Jacob Palis, Jr. ... The State University of Campinas (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, shorlty Unicamp) is one of the public universities of the State of São Paulo, Brazil. ... Nitrogen fixation is the process by which nitrogen is taken from its relatively inert molecular form (N2) in the atmosphere and converted into nitrogen compounds (such as, notably, ammonia, nitrate and nitrogen dioxide) [1] useful for other chemical processes. ... Phyla Actinobacteria Aquificae Chlamydiae Bacteroidetes/Chlorobi Chloroflexi Chrysiogenetes Cyanobacteria Deferribacteres Deinococcus-Thermus Dictyoglomi Fibrobacteres/Acidobacteria Firmicutes Fusobacteria Gemmatimonadetes Lentisphaerae Nitrospirae Planctomycetes Proteobacteria Spirochaetes Thermodesulfobacteria Thermomicrobia Thermotogae Verrucomicrobia Bacteria (singular: bacterium) are unicellular microorganisms. ... José Aristodemo Pinotti is a Brazilian physician, gynecological surgeon, university professor, scientific and educational leader and politician. ... The stage of a cancer is a descriptor (usually numbers I to IV) of how much the cancer has spread. ... José Goldemberg, a Brazilian, is a leading expert on energy end environment issues and is currently secretary for the environment of the State of São Paulo, Brazil. ... The University of São Paulo (in Portuguese Universidade de São Paulo, USP) is one of the three public universities funded by the State of São Paulo. ... José Leite Lopes (b. ... José Reis (b. ... Manuel Dias de Abreu Manuel Dias de Abreu (b. ... Chest radiography showing advanced bilateral pulmonary tuberculosis. ... A radiograph of a right elbow-joint Radiography is the use of certain types of electromagnetic radiation—usually ionizing—to view objects. ... Tuberculosis (abbreviated as TB for Tubercle Bacillus) is a common and deadly infectious disease caused by the mycobacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis or Mycobacterium bovis, which most commonly affects the lungs (pulmonary TB) but can also affect the central nervous system, lymphatic system, circulatory system, genitourinary system, bones, joints, and even the... Dr. Marcelo Gleiser is a brazilian physicist and astronomer. ... Dartmouth College is a private academic institution in Hanover, New Hampshire, in the United States. ... Marcos César Pontes (born March 11, 1963) became the first Brazilian and the first Lusophone to go into space when he launched towards the International Space Station aboard Soyuz TMA-8 on March 30, 2006. ... Mário Schenberg, (b. ... Maurício Oscar da Rocha e Silva (b. ... Spacefilling model of bradykinin Bradykinin is a physiologically and pharmacologically active peptide of the kinin group of proteins, consisting of nine amino acids. ... Peptides (from the Greek πεπτος, digestible), are the family of short molecules formed from the linking, in a defined order, of various α-amino acids. ... Mayana Zatz is a Brazilian molecular biologist and geneticist. ... Miguel Nicolelis, MD, PhD, is a Brazilian scientist best known for his pioneering work in reading monkey thought. He implanted electrode arrays into the monkey brain that were able to detect monkeys motor intent and thus able to control reaching and grasping movements performed by a robotic arm. ... Scientific American is a popular-science magazine, published (first weekly and later monthly) since August 28, 1845, making it the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States. ... Milton Santos (born May 3, 1926 in Brotas de Macaúbas, Bahia, Brazil, died June 24, 2001) was a geographer but your formation is a lawyer. ... Newton Carneiro Affonso da Costa (born on 16 September in 1929 in Curitiba, Brazil), Professor Emeritus, is a Brazilian mathematician, logician, and philosopher of international reputation. ... A paraconsistent logic is a logical system that attempts to deal nontrivially with contradictions. ... Nise da Silveira was born in Maceió, in the northeastern state of Alagoas, Brazil, in 1905. ... Oswaldo Gonçalves Cruz (b. ... Public health is concerned with threats to the overall health of a community based on population health analysis. ... Bubonic plague is the best-known variant of the deadly infectious disease plague, which is caused by the enterobacteria Yersinia pestis. ... Smallpox (also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera) is a highly contagious disease unique to humans. ... Location of Rio de Janeiro Coordinates: Country Brazil Region Southeast State Rio de Janeiro  - Mayor Cesar Maia (PFL) Area    - City 1,260 km² Population (2005)[1][2]  - City 5,613,000  - Density 4,781/km²  - Metro 11,620,000 Time zone UTC-3 (UTC-3) Website: www. ... Paulo Emilio Vanzolini, born in 1924, São Paulo, is a Brazilian scientist and music composer. ... A TRIBUTE TO FATHER ROBERTO LANDELL DE MOURA Father Landell de Moura Surely, we all admire the great men and women who left an indelible and positive mark for humanity, in every manifestation of human wisdom. ... In telecommunication, Telephony encompasses the general use of equipment to provide voice communication over distances. ... Sérgio Henrique Ferreira (b. ... Pharmacology (in Greek: pharmacon (φάρμακον) meaning drug, and logos (λόγος) meaning science) is the study of how substances interact with living organisms to produce a change in function. ... For other forms of hypertension, see Hypertension (disambiguation). ... Vital Brazil Mineiro da Campanha (b. ... Antivenom (or antivenin, or antivenene) is a biological product used in the treatment of venomous bites or stings. ... It has been suggested that Snake poison be merged into this article or section. ... Warwick Estevam Kerr (b. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Families Andrenidae Anthophoridae Apidae Colletidae Ctenoplectridae Halictidae Heterogynaidae Megachilidae Melittidae Oxaeidae Sphecidae Stenotritidae This article is about the insect. ... Wilson Teixeira Beraldo (b. ... Spacefilling model of bradykinin Bradykinin is a physiologically and pharmacologically active peptide of the kinin group of proteins, consisting of nine amino acids. ...

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
• Daniele Mundici, Italian mathematician
• Émil Goeldi, Swiss naturalist
• Emmanuel Liais, French astronomer and naturalist
• Erasmo Recami, Italian physicist
• Friedrich Sellow, German botanist
• Fritz Müller, German naturalist
• Fritz Köberle, Austrian physician and pathologist
• Giorgio Mortara, Italian Demographer and Statistician
• Grigori Ivanovitch Langsdorff, German/Russian naturalist
• Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian physicist
• Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian/Italian physicist
• Helmut Sick, German zoologist
• Hermann von Ihering, German naturalist
• Heinz Ebert, German geologist
• Louis Couty, French physiologist and pharmacologist
• Lucien Lison, Belgian anatomist
• Ludwig Riedel, German botanist
• Miguel Rolando Covian, Argentinian physiologist
• Orville Adalbert Derby, American geologist
• Richard Feynman, American physicist
• David Bohm American physicist
• Luigi Fantappiè Italian mathematician
• Dr Peter Szatmari Hungarian geologist