List of Brazilians - Science and Technology

Science and Technology

• Adib Jatene, heart surgeon
• Adolfo Lutz, physician and pioneer of public health
• Alexander Kellner, proeminent Liechtensteinian/Brazilian paleontologist
• Alberto Santos-Dumont, aviator and inventor.
• André Rebouças (1838–1898), pioneer engineer, brother of Antônio Rebouças Filho.
• Aristides Leão, physician and physiologist, discovered Leão's depression
• 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 pi meson, a type of subatomic particle
• Daniel Martins-de-Souza, Brazilian biologist; biochemist ref
• Eduardo Krieger, physician and physiologist, current president of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
• Emmanuel Dias-Neto, Brazilian biologist and geneticist; described the sequencing methodology ORESTES
• 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 in photography
• Ivan Izquierdo, physician and neuroscientist, discovered neural mechanisms of memory
• Jacob Palis, mathematician
• Jorge Stolfi, computer scientist, currently professor at UNICAMP
• Johanna Döbereiner (1924–2000), biologist, discoverer of the nitrogen fixing 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, science writer
• Manuel de Abreu, physician, inventor of abreugraphy, mass radiography of the lungs for screening for 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, theoretical physicist
• Maurício Peixoto, mathematician
• 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 (born 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 Vanzolini, zoologist, and composer of Brazilian popular music
• Roberto Landell de Moura, pioneer of telephony
• Santiago Americano Freire (1908–1997), physician and professor of pharmacology, psychiatrist, writer, painter
• Sérgio Henrique Ferreira, physician and pharmacologist, discovered the active principle of a drug for hypertension
• Vital Brazil, physician and scientist, discoverer of the antivenom for snakes and other venomous animals
• Wagner Farid Gattaz, physician and scientist, member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
• Warwick Estevam Kerr, geneticist, researcher on the biology and genetics of bees
• Wilson Teixeira Beraldo, co-discoverer of bradykinin