Science and Technology in Portugal - Noted Contributors To Science and Technology

Noted Contributors To Science and Technology

Some examples of notable Portuguese people who had made important contributions to science and technology, becoming in their time internationally known within their respective field, include:

• Corino Andrade - 20th century researcher who first described the familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy
• António Damásio - 20th/21st century researcher in several areas of the neurology, and a best-selling author of books which describe his scientific thinking
• Amato Lusitano - 16th century physician, discovered the circulation of the blood, was one of the first to observe and speculate about the venous valves found in the Azigos vein
• Froilano de Mello - 20th century microbiologist and medical scientist
• Egas Moniz - 20th century Nobel Prize in Medicine "for his discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses", he also was a pioneer in the development of cerebral angiography
• Pedro Nunes - 16th century mathematician, one of the greatest of his time, he is best known for his contributions in the technical field of navigation
• Garcia de Orta - 16th century physician and naturalist, he was a pioneer of tropical medicine