List of Portuguese People - Scientists

Scientists

Abel Salazar (1889–1946)
Alexandre Quintanilha (born 1945)
André de Resende (c. 1500 – 1573)
António A. de Freitas (born 1947), immunologist
António Damásio (born 1944), neurologist
Bartolomeu de Gusmão (1685–1724), inventor
Bento de Jesus Caraça (1901–1948), mathematician
Diogo Abreu (born 1947), geographer
Egas Moniz (1874–1955), neurologist and Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1949)
Freitas-Magalhães (born 1966), psychologist
Garcia de Orta (c. 1499 – 1568), botanical scientist
Hanna Damásio (born 1942), neurologist
Jacob de Castro Sarmento (c. 1691 – 1762)
João de Pina-Cabral (born 1954), anthropologist
João Magueijo, physicist
Miguel Vale de Almeida (born 1960), anthropologist
Benedita Barata da Rocha (born 1949), immunologist
Orlando Ribeiro (1911–1997), geographer
Pedro Nunes (1502–1578), mathematician and cosmographer
Sousa Martins (1843–1897)
Tomé Pires (c. 1465-c. 1540)

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