List of Brazilian scientists

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Adib Jatene, heart surgeon
Adolfo Lutz, physician and pioneer of public health
Adolpho Ducke, Croatian-Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist; botanist
Adriano Lúcio Peracchi, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; mammalogist
Alberto Santos-Dumont, aviator and inventor.
Alípio de Miranda Ribeiro, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
André Rebouças (1838-1898), pioneer engineer, brother of Antônio Rebouças Filho.
Ângelo Pires do Prado, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Antônio Rebouças Filho, pioneer engineer and urbanist
Aristides Leão, physician and physiologist, discovered Leão's depression, a phenomenon of nervous tissue
Arthur Neiva, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Aurélio Buarque de Hollanda, historiographer and linguist
Bráulio Dias, Brazilian zoologist and conservation leader
Bruce Walker Nelson, American-Brazilian botanist in the Amazon
Carlos Alberto Campos Seabra, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Carlos Chagas Filho, physician and physiologist, former president of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Son of Carlos Chagas.
Carlos Chagas, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; public health worker
Carlos Roberto Ferreira Brandão, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
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, first president of Brazilian National Research Council
Cincinnato Rory Gonçalves, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Cláudio Gilberto Froelich, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Czeslaw Marian Biezanko, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Dalton de Souza Amorim, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Domingos Gallo, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist; specialist on agricultural entomology
Domingos Soares Ferreira Penna, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; naturalist
Eduardo Krieger, physician and physiologist, current president of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
Elio Corseuil, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Ely Caetano Xavier Junior, young researcher, won the national Cientistas de Amanhã prize of UNESCO in 2006 for your study on lead-exposed children
Émil Göldi, Swiss-Brazilian biologist; zoologist; naturalist
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.
Fernando Dias de Ávila Pires, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Florestan Fernandes (1920-1995), father of Brazilian sociology
Francisco A. Menezes Mariconi, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Frederico Lane, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Fritz Müller, German-Brazilian biologist; zoologist; botanist; naturalist; entomologist
Fritz Plaumann, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Gilberto Freyre (1900-1987), historiographer and sociologist
Gilberto Righi, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; specialist on earthworms
Gregório Gregorievitch Bondar, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Hans Reichardt Filho, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Heinz Ebert, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Helmut Sick, German-Brazilian biologist; zoologist; ornithologist
Henrique da Rocha Lima,
Hércules Florence, pioneer of photography
Herman Lent, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Hermann Friedrich Albrecht von Ihering, German-Brazilian biologist; zoologist
Hermann Luederwaldt, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Hugo de Souza Lopes, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Isaias Raw, physician, biochemist and scientific leader
Ivan Izquierdo, physician and neuroscientist. Discovered neural mechanisms of memory
Jacob Palis, mathematician of international fame
Jacques Hüber, Swiss-Brazilian biologist; botanist
Jayme Tiomno, experimental and theoretical nuclear physicist
João Maria F. de Camargo, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Jocélia Grazia Vieira, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Johanna Döbereiner (1924-2000), biologist of international fame, discoverer of the nitrogen fixation role of soil bacteria
John Lane, Brazilian biologist; zoologist
Jorge Stolfi, computer scientist, nowadays professor at UNICAMP
José Albertino Rafael, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
José Aristodemo Pinotti, physician and gynecologist, former president of the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
José Cândido de Melo Carvalho, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
José Goldemberg, physicist, former Minister of Science & Technology and Dean of the University of São Paulo
José Henrique Guimarães, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
José Leite Lopes, theoretical physicist
José Lutzenberger (1926-2002), ecologist and zoologist
José Márcio Ayres, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; primatologist
José Maria Soares Barata, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
José Reis, biologist, greatest Brazilian science writer
José Roberto Pujol-Luz, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
José Willibaldo Thomé, Brazilian biologist; zoologist
Joseph Francisco Zikán, Brazilian biologist; zoologist
Karol Lenko, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Keith Spalding Brown Junior, American-Brazilian biologist; zoologist; chemist; entomologist
Lauro Travassos Filho, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Lauro Travassos, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Lindolpho Rocha Guimarães, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Ludwig Buckup, Brazilian biologist; zoologist
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 Duarte da Silva, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Marcelo Gleiser, physicist, writer and professor of physics and astronomy at the Dartmouth College since 1991
Marcos Pontes, first Brazilian astronaut, Expedition 13
Maria Helena Manieri Galileo, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Mário Autuori, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
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
Messias Carrera, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Miguel Angel Monné Barrios, Uruguayan-Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Miguel Nicolelis, neuroscientist, one of Scientific American's best scientists of 2004
Milton Santos (1926-2001), geographer
Miriam Becker, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Mirna Martins Casagrande, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Moacir Alvarenga, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; naturalist; entomologist
Mônica Barth, Brazilian biologist; botanist; palinologist
Murylo Batista, famous immunologist, infectologist, and dermatologist
Nelson Papavero, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist; historian of science
Newton da Costa (1929), mathematician and logician, recognised for his works in paraconsistent logic
Nise da Silveira (1905-1999), psychiatrist and mental health reformer
Olaf Hermann Hendrik Mielke, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
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
Oswaldo Paulo Forattini, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Padre Jesus Santiago Moure, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Paulo Buhrnheim, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Paulo Emílio Vanzolini, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; herpetologist
Paulo Nogueira Neto, ecologist, zoologist and scientific leader
Reginaldo Constatino, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Renato Contin Marinoni, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Renato Lion de Araújo, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Roberto Landell de Moura, pioneer of telephony
Roger Pierre Hypolite Arlé, French-Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Rogério César de Cerqueira Leite, physicist and scientific leader and writer
Romualdo Ferreira de Almeida, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Rudolf Barth, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Samuel Barnsley Pessoa, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; parasitologist
Sérgio Henrique Ferreira, physician and pharmacologist, discovered the active principle of a new drug against hypertension
Sonia Ambrosio de Nelson, journalist and sociologist.
Tomás Borgmeier, German-Brazilian biologist; entomologist
Ubirajara Ribeiro Martins de Souza, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Vital Brazil, physician and scientist, discoverer of the antivenom for snakes and other venomous animals
Vitor Osmar Becker, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Walter Wolfgang Franz Kempf, German-Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Walter Zikán, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
Warwick Estevam Kerr, geneticist, researcher on the biology and genetics of bees
Wilson Teixeira Beraldo, co-discoverer of bradykinin
Wolfgang Bücherl, Brazilian biologist; zoologist
Zilkar C. Maranhão, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist