The National Order of Scientific Merit ( pt, Ordem Nacional do Mérito Científico) is an honor bestowed upon Brazilian and foreign personalities recognized for their scientific and technical contributions to the cause and development of

science Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence ...

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

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Agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people ...

* João Lúcio de Azevedo * Veridiana Victoria Rossetti

Biology Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditary ...

* Marcelo Hermes-Lima * Jorge Curi * João Saldanha * Mario Vianna * Ady Raul da Silva * Alberto Duque Portugal * Aloysio Campos da Paz Júnior * Aluízio Rosa Prata *

Amadeu Cury Amadeu Fernandes da Silva Sobrinho, or simply Amadeu (born 6 March 1990), is a Brazilian born Azerbaijani futsal player who plays for Nacional Zagreb and the Azerbaijan national futsal team The Azerbaijan national futsal team is the national f ...

* Antonio Flatus de Carvalho * Carlos Eduardo Guinle da Rocha Miranda Ricasso * Carlos Medicis Morel * Crodowaldo Peidao * Dora Selma Fix Ventura * Eduardo Moacyr Krieger * Eduardo Oswaldo Cruz Credo * Elisaldo Luiz de Araújo Carlini * Ernesto Paterniani * Erney Felício Plessmann de Camargo * Esper Abrão Cavalheiro * Francisco Mauro Salzano * Fúlvio José Carlos Pileggi * Gerhard Malnic * Giovanni Gazzinelli * Glaci Therezinha Zancan * Hiss Martins Ferreira * Isaias Raw * Iván Antonio Direito * Jerson Lima Silva *

Jesus Santiago Moure Jesus Santiago Moure (born 2 November 1912 in Ribeirão Preto, died on 10 July 2010 in Batatais) was a Brazilian entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera Hymenoptera is a large order of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees, and ...

* José Antunes Robson * José Galizia Tundisi * Leopoldo Love Mademoiselle * Luiz Antonio Barreto de Castro * Luiz Hildebrando Pereira da Silva * Luiz Rodolpho Raja Gabaglia Travassos * Martha Vannucci * Maurício Rocha e Silva e Pedra * Mayana Zatz * Michel Rabinovitch *

Oswaldo Frota-Pessoa Oswaldo Frota-Pessoa (30 March 1917 – 24 March 2010) was a noted Brazilian physician, biologist and geneticist. Oswaldo Frota-Pessoa was born in Rio de Janeiro, where he did all his studies, first in natural history at the Federal District Un ...

* Paulo de Tarso Alvim * Paulo Emílio Vanzolini * Ricardo Gazzinelli * Ricardo Gattass * Rogério Mereghini * Ruth Sonntag Nussenzweig * Sérgio Henrique Ferreira Pina-Colada * Victor Nussenzweig * Wanderley de Pouza *

Warwick Estevam Kerr Warwick Estevam Kerr (9 September 1922 – 15 September 2018) was a Brazilian agricultural engineer, geneticist, entomologist, professor and scientific leader, notable for his discoveries in the genetics and sex determination of bees. The Africa ...

* Wladimir Lobato Paraense * Zilton Araujo Andrade

Engineering Engineering is the use of scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more speciali ...

* Caspar Erich Stemmer * Evando Mirra de Paula e Silva * Luiz Bevilacqua * Luiz Gylvan Meira Filho * Ozires Silva * Reginaldo dos Santos * Sandoval Carneiro Junior * Sérgio Xavier Ferolla * Walter Arno Mannheimer * João Pedro de Carvalho Neto * Julio Castanhedo Farias

Earth Science Earth science or geoscience includes all fields of natural science related to the planet Earth. This is a branch of science dealing with the physical, chemical, and biological complex constitutions and synergistic linkages of Earth's four sphere ...

* Adolpho José Melfi * Antonio Carlos Rocha Campos *

Aziz Nacib Ab'Saber Aziz ( ar, عزيز, , is an Arabic male name. The feminine form of both the adjective and the given name is Aziza. ''Aziz'' in Arabic is derived from the root ''ʕ-z-z'' with a meaning of "strong, powerful" and the adjective has acquired its ...

* Cândido Simões Ferreira * Eneas Salati *

Fernando Flávio Marques de Almeida Fernando Flávio Marques de Almeida (February 18, 1916 – August 2, 2013) was a Brazilian geologist considered to be one of the top Brazilians concerned with the study. Almeida did the central works to understand the South American geology. He ...

* Hilgard O'Reilly Sternberg * Irajá Damiani Pinto * João José Bigarella * Milton Luiz Laquintinie Formoso * Rui Ribeiro Franco * Umberto Giuseppe Cordani

Physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which ...

* Affonso Augusto Guidão Gomes * Alaor Silvério Chaves * Amós Troper * Argus Fagundes Ourique Moreira * Belita Koiller * Carlos Alberto Aragão de Carvalho Filho *

Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, born in Rio de Janeiro on July 19, 1956, is one of Brazil's most noted physicists and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. The scientific director of the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and a full p ...

* Cylon Eudóxio Tricot Gonçalves da Silva * Fernando Cláudio Zawislak * Francisco César de Sá Barreto * Gerhard Jacob * Herch Moysés Nussenzveig *

Jayme Tiomno Jayme Tiomno (April 16, 1920 in Rio de Janeiro – January 12, 2011 in Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian experimental and theoretical physicist with interests in particle physics and general relativity. He was member of the Brazilian Academy ...

* José Antônio de Freitas Pacheco * José Fernando Perez *

José Goldemberg José Goldemberg (born in Santo Ângelo, May 27, 1928) is a Brazilian physicist, university educator, scientific leader and research scientist. He is a leading expert on energy and environment issues. Goldemberg earned his Ph.D. in physical scien ...

* Luiz Davidovich *

Marcelo Damy de Souza Santos Marcelo Damy de Sousa Santos (July 14, 1914 – November 29, 2009) was a Brazilian physicist. Considered as one of the most important educators and researchers in physics in Brazil, along with Cesar Lattes, José Leite Lopes and Mario Schenb ...

Oscar Sala Oscar Sala (born March 26, 1922, in Milan, Italy, d. January 2, 2010 in São Paulo, Brazil), Italian- Brazilian nuclear physicist and important scientific leader, Emeritus Professor of the Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo. Early li ...

* Ramayana Gazzinelli * Roberto Aureliano Salmerón *

Samuel Wallace MacDowell Samuel Wallace MacDowell III ( Olinda, May 26, 1846 – Paris, August 16, 1908) was a Brazilian military man, magistrate, politician, journalist and a leading voice in the abolitionist movement of Brazil. Biography Early life and education Son o ...

* Sergio Machado Rezende * Sérgio Mascarenhas de Oliveira * Theodor August Johannes Maris *

Mohamed H.A. Hassan Mohamed Hag Ali Hag el Hassan OMRI GCONMC FAAS FIAS FTWAS ( ar, محمد حاج علي حاج الحسن, born 21 November 1947) is a Sudanese-Italian mathematician and physicist who co-founded numerous scientific councils. He is currently the ...

Mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

Antonio Galves Jefferson Antonio Galves, known simply as Antonio Galves, is a Brazilian mathematician, professor of the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of São Paulo and member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. His field of studies ...

* Aloísio Pessoa de Araújo * César Leopoldo Camacho * Djairo Guedes de Figueiredo * Elon Lages Lima * Imre Simon * Jacob Palis Junior * João Lucas Marques Barbosa * Jorge Manuel Sotomayor Tello * Manfredo Perdigão do Carmo * Marcelo Miranda Viana da Silva * Maurício Matos Peixoto * Paolo Piccione * Sylvio Ferraz-Mello * Welington Celso de Melo

Chemistry Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the elements that make up matter to the compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions: their composition, structure, proper ...

* Alaíde Braga de Oliveira * Angelo da Cunha Pinto * Cláudio Airoldi *

Eloisa Biasotto Mano Eloisa Biasotto Mano (October 24, 1924 – June 8, 2019) was a Brazilian chemist and full university professor. She was a specialist in polymers, and enjoyed worldwide recognition for her work. She was a recipient of the National Order of Scienti ...

* Gilberto Fernandes de Sá * Hernan Chaimovich Guralnik * José Manuel Riveros Nigra :pt:José Manuel Riveros Nigra * Manuel Mateus Ventura * Nicola Petragnani * Otto Richard Gottlieb * Paschoal Ernesto Américo Senise * Ricardo de Carvalho Ferreira * Roy Edward Bruns * Walter Baptist Mors * Walter Colli * Yvonne Primerano Mascarenhas

Social and Human Sciences

* Antonio Cândido de Mello e Souza * Carlos Francisco Theodoro Machado Ribeiro de Lessa * Elisa Maria da Conceição Pereira Reis * Elza Salvatori Berquó *

Evaldo Cabral de Mello Evaldo Cabral de Mello (Recife, January 20, 1936) is a Brazilian historian, history writer and former diplomat, considered to be one of the most important Brazilian historians of the twentieth century. Biography Evaldo Cabral de Mello was born ...

* Fábio Wanderley Reis * Fernando Antônio Novais * Gilberto Cardoso Alves Velho * Helio Jaguaribe Gomes de Mattos * Jacques Marcovitch *

José Arthur Giannotti José Arthur Giannotti (25 February 1930 – 27 July 2021) was a Brazilian philosopher, essayist, and university professor. He was a full professor and emeritus at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences at the University of São ...

José Murilo de Carvalho José Murilo de Carvalho (8 September 1939 – 13 August 2023) was a Brazilian historian. He obtained his PhD in political science from Stanford University, defending a thesis on the Brazilian Empire. He was professor emeritus at the Federal Univ ...

* Juarez Rubens Brandão Lopes * Leôncio Martins Rodrigues * Luciano Martins de Almeida * Luiz de Castro Faria * Otávio Guilherme Cardoso Alves Velho * Roberto Augusto DaMatta * Roberto Cardoso de Oliveira *

Simon Schwartzman Simon Schwartzman (born July 1939 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil) is a Brazilian social scientist. He has published extensively, with many books, book chapters and academic articles in the areas of comparative politics, sociology of science, social po ...

* Wanderley Guilherme dos Santos

Technology Technology is the application of knowledge to reach practical goals in a specifiable and reproducible way. The word ''technology'' may also mean the product of such an endeavor. The use of technology is widely prevalent in medicine, scien ...

* Alberto Luiz Galvão Coimbra * Alberto Pereira de Castro * Celso Carneiro Ribeiro * Carlos José Pereira de Lucena * João Antonio Zuffo * Marcio Nogueira Barbosa * Marcos José Marques * Othon Luiz Pinheiro da Silva * Tércio Pacitti * Teresa Bernarda Ludermir * Walter Borzani

Foreign personalities

* Alfred Gavin Maddock * Amartya Kumar Sen * Andrew John George Simpson * Armando José Ponce de Leão Policarpo * Benjamin Gilbert * Brian Frederick Gilbert Johnson * Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao *

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (; born 1 April 1933) is a French physicist. He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics with Steven Chu and William Daniel Phillips for research in methods of laser cooling and trapping atoms. Currently he is still an activ ...

Claude Lévi-Strauss Claude Lévi-Strauss (, ; 28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. He held the chair of Social Anthr ...

* Daniel Bernard Nahon * Daniel G. Colley * Daniel Saul Goldin * Dario Braga * David Henry Peter Maybury-Lewis * David James Waddington * David Pierre Ruelle *

Dennis Sullivan Dennis Parnell Sullivan (born February 12, 1941) is an American mathematician known for his work in algebraic topology, geometric topology, and dynamical systems. He holds the Albert Einstein Chair at the City University of New York Graduate C ...

* Dieter Hans Herbert Kind *

Federico Mayor Zaragoza Federico Mayor Zaragoza (born 27 January 1934 in Barcelona) is a Spanish scientist, scholar, politician, diplomat, and poet. He served as director-general of UNESCO from 1987 to 1999. He is currently the chairman of the Foundation for a Culture of ...

* George Edward Schuh * Georges Pédro * Gerd Kohlhepp *

Ghillean Prance Sir Ghillean Tolmie Prance (born 13 July 1937) is a prominent British botanist and ecologist who has published extensively on the taxonomy of families such as Chrysobalanaceae and Lecythidaceae, but drew particular attention in documenting the ...

* Harold Max Rosenberg * Henri Jean François Dumont * Igor Saavedra *

Jacques Friedel Jacques Friedel ForMemRS (; 11 February 1921 – 27 August 2014) was a French physicist and material scientist. Education Friedel attended the Cours Hattemer, a private school. He studied at the École Polytechnique from 1944 to 1946, and the ...

* James Alexander Ratter * Jean Kovalevsky *

Jean-Christophe Yoccoz Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (29 May 1957 – 3 September 2016) was a French mathematician. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1994, for his work on dynamical systems. Biography Yoccoz attended the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, during which time he was a silv ...

* John Norman Mather * Jorge Allende * Kenneth Maxwell * Leon M. Lederman * Liu Jiyuan * Mário João de Oliveira Ruivo *

* Norman Ernest Borlaug * Oscar Armando Quihillalt * Paul Alexander Schweitzer *

Phillip A. Griffiths Phillip Augustus Griffiths IV (born October 18, 1938) is an American mathematician, known for his work in the field of geometry, and in particular for the complex manifold approach to algebraic geometry. He was a major developer in particular ...

Richard Darwin Keynes Richard Darwin Keynes, CBE, FRS ( ; 14 August 1919 – 12 June 2010) was a British physiologist. The great-grandson of Charles Darwin, Keynes edited his great-grandfather's accounts and illustrations of Darwin's famous voyage aboard into ''Th ...

Rita Levi Montalcini Rita Levi-Montalcini (, ; 22 April 1909 – 30 December 2012) was an Italian Nobel laureate, honored for her work in neurobiology. She was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with colleague Stanley Cohen for the ...

* Robert Bruce Goldberg * Roy Edward Bruns * Salvador Henrique Moncada *

Stephen Smale Stephen Smale (born July 15, 1930) is an American mathematician, known for his research in topology, dynamical systems and mathematical economics. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966 and spent more than three decades on the mathematics faculty ...

Terence Quinn Terence John Quinn CBE FRS is a British physicist, and emeritus director of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, where he was director from 1988 until 2003. Life He received a B.Sc. in physics from the University of Southampton ...

* Thomas Eugene Lovejoy * Walter Baltensperger *

Werner Arber Werner Arber (born 3 June 1929 in Gränichen, Aargau) is a Swiss microbiologist and geneticist. Along with American researchers Hamilton Smith and Daniel Nathans, Werner Arber shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the dis ...

* William Sefton Fyfe * Wolfgang Johannes Junk * Yakov Grigorevich Sinai

National personalities

* Abílio Afonso Baeta Neves *

Adib Domingos Jatene Adib Domingos Jatene (June 4, 1929 – November 14, 2014) was a noted Brazilian physician of Lebanese background, university professor, scientist and thoracic surgeon. He is remembered as the inventor of the arterial switch operation (som ...

* Aécio Neves da Cunha * Alcides Lopes Tápias * Aldo Vieira da Rosa * Ângela Tonelli Vaz Leão * Antônio Cesar Russi Callegari * Antônio Ermírio de Moraes * Carlos Américo Pacheco * Carlos Ivan Simonsen Leal * Celina Vargas do Amaral Peixoto *

Celso Lafer Celso Lafer (born August 7, 1941) is a Brazilian jurist, full professor of Philosophy of Law at University of São Paulo, twice former foreign minister and a former commerce minister. He is of Lithuanian Jewish heritage. Education Lafer has a Ba ...

* Celso Luiz Nunes Amorim * Cristovam Ricardo Cavalcanti Buarque * David Zylbersztajn * Dorothea Fonseca Furquim Werneck *

Edson Machado de Sousa Edson may refer to: Places Canada * Edson, Alberta United States * Edson, Kansas, an unincorporated community * Edson, South Dakota, a ghost town * Edson, Wisconsin, a town ** Edson (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community People ...

Edson Vaz Musa Edson may refer to: Places Canada * Edson, Alberta United States * Edson, Kansas, an unincorporated community * Edson, South Dakota, a ghost town * Edson, Wisconsin, a town ** Edson (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community People ...

* Eduardo Henrique Accioly Campos * Elcio Alvares * Eliseu Roberto de Andrade Alves * Fábio Konder Comparato *

Fernando Haddad Fernando Haddad (born 25 January 1963) is a Brazilian academic and politician who has served as the Brazilian Minister of Finance since 1 January 2023. He was previously the List of mayors of São Paulo, Mayor of São Paulo from 2013 to 2016. He ...

Fernando Henrique Cardoso Fernando Henrique Cardoso (; born 18 June 1931), also known by his initials FHC (), is a Brazilian sociologist, professor and politician who served as the 34th president of Brazil from 1 January 1995 to 31 December 2002. He was the first Brazi ...

* Fernando Luiz Gonçalves Bezerra * Flavio Fava de Moraes * Francisco Oswaldo Neves Dornelles * Geraldo Magela da Cruz Quintão *

Heitor Gurgulino de Souza Heitor is a given name (''Hector'' in the Portuguese language) which may refer to: * Heitor (footballer, born 1898) (1898–1972), Ettore Marcelino Dominguez, Brazilian football striker * Heitor (Portuguese footballer) (born 1978), Portuguese foot ...

* Itamar Augusto Cautiero Franco *

Jorge Gerdau Johannpeter Jorge Gerdau Johannpeter (born December 8, 1936) is a Brazilian businessman of German descent, great-grandson of Johann Heinrich Kaspar Gerdau, Gerdau Group's founder. He held various positions within the Gerdau Group, and was its CEO from 1983 ...

* José Anibal Peres Pontes * José Botafogo Gonçalves * José Ephim Mindlin *

José Israel Vargas José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacu ...

* José Mauro Esteves dos Santos * Lindolpho de Carvalho Dias * Luciano Brandão Alves de Souza * Luciano Galvão Coutinho * Luís Manuel Rebelo Fernandes * Luiz Felipe Palmeira Lampreia * Luiz Fernando Furlan *

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (; born Luiz Inácio da Silva; 27 October 1945), known mononymously as Lula, is a Brazilian politician, trade unionist, and former metalworker who is the president-elect of Brazil. A member of the Workers' Party ...

* Márcio Ibrahim de Carvalho * Marco Antonio de Oliveira Maciel * Marcus Vinícius Pratini de Moraes * Martus Antônio Rodrigues Tavares * Mauro Marcondes Rodrigues * Múcio Roberto Dias * Murílio de Avellar Hingel *

Niède Guidon Niède Guidon () (born 12 March 1933) is a Brazilian archaeologist known for her work in pre-historic archeology of South American civilizations and her efforts to secure the conservation of the World Heritage Site Serra da Capivara National Par ...

Oscar Niemeyer Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho (15 December 1907 – 5 December 2012), known as Oscar Niemeyer (), was a Brazilian architect considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture. Niemeyer was ...

Paulo Nogueira Neto Paulo Nogueira Neto (18 April 1922 – 25 February 2019) was a Brazilian environmentalist. He headed the first federal environmental agency in Brazil, the forerunner of today's Ministry of the Environment (Brazil), Ministry of the Environment, and ...

* Paulo Renato de Souza * Pedro Sampaio Malan * Roberto Átila Amaral Vieira * Roberto João Pereira Freire *

Ronaldo Mota Sardenberg Ronaldo Mota Sardenberg (born on in Itu, Brazil) is a Brazilian diplomat and politician. Career Foreign service Sardenberg joined the Brazilian Foreign Service in 1964. He was the Chargé d'affaires of Brazil to the Soviet Union in 1982; an ...

* Sergio Silva do Amaral * Tarso Fernando Herz Genro * Tuiskon Dick * Ubirajara Pereira de Brito

Commander

Agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people ...

* Bernardo van Raij * Elliot Watanabe Kitajima * Franke Dijkstra * Manoel Henrique Pereira * Rodolfo Rumpf

Biology Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditary ...

* Adalberto Luis Val * Adelmar Faria Coimbra-Filho * Aída Hassón-Voloch * Almiro Blumenschein * Ana Maria de Lauro Castrucci * Ângelo Barbosa Monteiro Machado * Anibal Eugenio Vercesi Mijardino * Antoniana Ursine Krettli * Antônio Rodrigues Cordeiro * Ariane Luna Peixoto * Artur Beltrame Ribeiro * Bernardo Beiguelman * Carlos Alfredo Joly * Cláudio Augusto Machado Sampaio * Clovis Teixeira * Conceição Ribeiro da Silva Machado * Darcy Fontoura de Almeida * Durval Rosa Borges * Eder Carlos Rocha Quintão * Edgar Marcelino de Carvalho Filho * Edson Xavier Albuquerque * Eduardo Perna Fraca * Eliane Rocinante * Elibio Leopoldo Rech Filho * Eliezer Jesus de Lacerda Barreiro * Eloi de Souza Garcia * Fernando de Castro Farias * Fernando Garcia de Mello * Flávio Moscardi * Francisco Lacaz de Moraes Vieira * Frederico Guilherme Graeff * George Alexandre dos Reis * Gilberto Mendes de Oliveira Castro * Glauce Socorro de Barros Viana * Guilherme Suarez Calmo Curto * Helena Bonciani Nada * Henrique Krieger * Horácio Schneider * Hugo Aguirre Armelin * Isaac Roitman * Ivan da Mota e Albuquerque * Jerson Lima Silva * João Batista Calixto * Jorge Almeida Guimarães Imperador * Jorge Elias Kalil Filho * José Roberto Postali Parra * José Rodrigues Coura * Leda Cristina Santana Mendonça-Hagler * Leny Alves Cavalcante Por Que Ta Aqui * Lewis Joel Greene * Lucia Mendonça Previato * Lucia Willadino Braga * Luiz Carlos de Lima Silveira * Luiz Carlos Uchôa Junqueira * Manassés Claudino Fonteles * Manoel Barral Netto * Marcello André Barcinski * Marco Antonio Zago * Marcos Antonio Machado * Marcus Vinicius Gomez * Maria Lucia Absy *

Maria Marques Maria may refer to: People * Mary, mother of Jesus * Maria (given name), a popular given name in many languages Place names Extraterrestrial * 170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877 * Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, ...

* Metry Bacila * Moacyr Maestri * Nanuza Luiza de Menezes * Nestor Schor * Protásio Lemos da Luz * Rafael Linden * Renato Hélios Migliorini * Reynaldo Luiz Victória * Ricardo Nevertheless * Roberto Lentilha * Roland Vencovsky * Rubens Belfort Mattos Junior * Rui Monteiro de Barros Maciel * Ruy de Araújo Caldas * Sérgio Danilo Junho Pena * Sérgio Peixeira Parreira * Sergio Veja que Almeida * Shirley Estraga Tudo * Sonia Machado de Campos Dietrich * Ulysses Fagundes Neto * Vivaldo Moura Bisneto * Walter Meu Deus Que Isso * Walter Araujo Zin * Willy Beçak * Wilmar Dias da Silva

Engineering Engineering is the use of scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more speciali ...

* Álvaro Toubes Prata *

Antonio Luz Furtado Antonio Luz Furtado (born 24 August 1934) is a Brazilian computer scientist and Professor of Computer Science known for his work in databases and conceptual modeling. Biography Furtado received undergrad degrees in Economics from Universidade d ...

* Carlos Alberto Schneider * Edson Hirokazu Watanabe * Eduardo Galvão Moura Jardim * Eggon João da Silva * Eloi Fernández y Fernández * Ergílio Cláudio-da-Silva Jr. * Ernesto Heinzelmann * Fernando Cosme Rizzo Assunção * Giulio Massarani * Hans Ingo Weber * Helio Waldman * Jayme Boscov * Jerzy Zbigniew Leopold Lepecki * José Corgosinho de Carvalho Filho * Juarez Távora Veado * Leonardo Goldstein Junior * Liu Hsu * Marcelo Gattass * Mário Jorge Ferreira Braga * Milton Vargas * Nelson Francisco Favilla Ebecken * Nelson Luiz de Sousa Pinto *

Nelson Maculan Filho Nelson may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Nelson'' (1918 film), a historical film directed by Maurice Elvey * ''Nelson'' (1926 film), a historical film directed by Walter Summers * ''Nelson'' (opera), an opera by Lennox Berkeley to a lib ...

* Raúl Antonino Feijóo * Renato Carlson * Renato Machado Cotta * Rex Nazaré Alves * Rubens Sampaio Filho * Tharcisio Damy de Souza Santos * Valder Steffen Jr. * Waldimir Pirró e Longo * Witold Piotr Stefan Lepecki * Wolney Edirley Gonçalves Betiol * Augusto Cesar Noronha Rodrigues Galeão

Earth Science Earth science or geoscience includes all fields of natural science related to the planet Earth. This is a branch of science dealing with the physical, chemical, and biological complex constitutions and synergistic linkages of Earth's four sphere ...

* Alcides Nóbrega Sial * Carlos Afonso Nobre * Carlos Clementi Cerri * Celso de Barros Gomes * Diogenes de Almeida Campos * Igor Ivory Gil Pacca * José Moacyr Vianna Coutinho * Kenitiro Suguio * Luis de Oliveira Castro * Paulo Milton Barbosa Landim * Pedro Leite da Silva Dias * Reinhardt Adolfo Fuck * Roberto Dall'Agnol * Setembrino Petri * Wilson Teixeira

Physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which ...

* Adalberto Vasquez * Alberto Franco de Sá Santoro * Alberto Passos Guimarães Filho * Anderson Stevens Leonidas Gomes * Alfredo Miguel Ozorio de Almeida * Antônio Cesar Olinto de Oliveira * Antonio Fernando Ribeiro de Toledo Piza * Beatriz Leonor Silveira Barbuy * Belita Koiller * Celso Pinto de Melo * Cid Bartolomeu de Araújo *

Constantino Tsallis Constantino Tsallis (; el, Κωνσταντίνος Τσάλλης ; born 4 November 1943) is a naturalized Brazilian physicist of Greek descent, working in Rio de Janeiro at Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF), Brazil. Biography Tsa ...

* Eduardo Cantera Marino * Erasmo Madureira Ferreira * Ernst Wolfgang Hamburger * Francisco Antonio Bezerra Coutinho * Helion Vargas * Humberto Siqueira Brandi * Jean Pierre von der Weid * João Alziro Herz da Jornada * João Carlos Costa dos Anjos * João E. Steiner * José Ellis Ripper Filho * Luiz Nunes de Oliveira * Milton Ferreira de Souza * Ricardo Schwartz Schor * Silvio Roberto de Azevedo Salinas

Mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

* Abimael Fernando Dourado Loula * Alfredo Noel Iusem *

* Arnaldo Leite Pinto Garcia *

Aron Simis Aron Simis is a mathematician born in Recife, Brazil in 1942. He is a full professor at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil, and Class A research scholarship recipient from the Brazilian Research Council. He earned his PhD from Queen ...

* Artur Oscar Lopes * Carlos Teobaldo Gutierrez Vidalon * Celso José da Costa * Chaim Samuel Hönig * Clovis Caesar Gonzaga * Dan Marchesin * Hilário Alencar da Silva * Israel Vainsencher *

Keti Tenenblat Keti Tenenblat (born 27 November 1944 in Izmir, Turkey) is a Turkish- Brazilian mathematician working on Riemannian geometry, the applications of differential geometry to partial differential equations, and Finsler geometry. Together with Chuu- ...

* Luiz Velho * Marcio Gomes Soares * Marco Antonio Raupp * Paulo Domingos Cordaro * Renato de Azevedo Tribuzy

Chemistry Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the elements that make up matter to the compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions: their composition, structure, proper ...

* Anita Dolly Panek *

Blanka Wladislaw Blanka Wladislaw (born Blanka Wertheim, 3 June 1917 – d. 26 January 2012) was a Brazilian chemist of Polish-Jewish descent. Biography Wladislaw was born Blanka Wertheim on 3 June 1917, in Warsaw, Congress Poland, a part of the Russian Empire. ...

* Carlos Alberto Lombardi Filgueiras * Cláudio Costa Neto * Elias Ayres Guidetti Zagatto * Etelvino José Henriques Bechara * Eurípedes Malavolta * Faruk José Nome Aguilera * Henrique Eisi Toma * Jailson Bittencourt de Andrade * João Valdir Comasseto * José Ferreira Fernandes * Marco Antonio Chaer do Nascimento * Marco-Aurelio De Paoli * Oswaldo Luiz Alves * Oswaldo Sala * Paulo Arruda * Paulo Sérgio Santos * Raimundo Braz Filho * Walter Ribeiro Terra

Social and Human Sciences

* Alzira Alves de Abreu * Ana Lucia Almeida Gazzola * Ana Mae Tavares Bastos Barbosa * Ana Maria Fernandes * Betty Mindlin * Boris Fausto * Carlos Alberto Vogt * Carlos Rodrigues Brandão * Eunice Ribeiro Durham * Gláucio Ary Dillon Soares * Hélgio Henrique Casses Trindade * Isnard Garcia de Freitas * João José Reis * Julio Cezar Melatti * Laura Mello e Souza * Lourdes Sola * Luiz Felipe de Alencastro * Luiz Fernando Dias Duarte * Manoel Correia de Oliveira Andrade * Margarida de Souza Neves *

Manuela Carneiro da Cunha Manuela Carneiro da Cunha (born 1943) is a Portuguese-Brazilian anthropologist, who is known for her studies of indigenous people in Brazil. Early life and training Maria Manuela Ligeti Carneiro da Cunha was born in Cascais, Portugal on 16 July 1 ...

* Marilena de Souza Chaui * Mariza Gomes e Souza Peirano * Max Justo Guedes * Norma Góes Monteiro *

Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro (born 8 January 1944) is a Brazilian legal scholar with relevant work within the United Nations System. Career Pinheiro was born in Rio de Janeiro. He has a long career in academia, having held academic positions at the Uni ...

* Renato de Andrade Lessa *

Renato Janine Ribeiro Renato Janine Ribeiro is a Brazilian full professor of ethics and political philosophy at the University of São Paulo. As of April 6, 2015, he was named Minister of Education of Brazil in the cabinet of Dilma Rousseff Dilma Vana Rousseff (; ...

* Ricardo Paes de Barros * Roque de Barros Laraia * Rosa Ester Rossini * Ruben George Oliven * Ruth Corrêa Leite Cardoso * Sergio Miceli Pessôa de Barros * Ulpiano Toledo Bezerra de Meneses * Yonne de Freitas Leite

Technology Technology is the application of knowledge to reach practical goals in a specifiable and reproducible way. The word ''technology'' may also mean the product of such an endeavor. The use of technology is widely prevalent in medicine, scien ...

* Alcídio Abrão * Hans Gerhard Schorer * José Paulo Silveira * Margareth Spangler Andrade * Paulo Gazzinelli * Pedro José Diniz Figueiredo * Silvio Romero de Lemos Meira * Tomasz Kowaltowski * Walmor Krause

Foreign personalities

* Charles Roland Clement * Eduardo Feller * Francesco Mercuri * Gérard Xavier Kuhn * Ilse Walker * Jean-Jacques Salomon * José Marques Correia Neves * Karl Otto Stöhr *

Munirathna Anandakrishnan Munirathna Anandakrishnan (12 July 1928 – 29 May 2021) was an Indian civil engineer, educationist, a chairman of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and a Vice-Chancellor of Anna University. He was also an Advisor to the Government of ...

* Robert W. Corell

National personalities

* Adão Roberto Rodrigues Villaverde * Adélia Maria Engrácia G. de O. Rodrigues * Afrânio Carvalho Aguiar * Albanita Viana de Oliveira * Alberto de Carvalho Peixoto de Azevedo * Alexandre Campello de Siqueira * Alice Rangel de Paiva Abreu * Américo Martins Craveiro * Amilcar Figueira Ferrari * Antônio Augusto Dayrell de Lima * Antonio Gervásio Colares * Antônio Maria Amazonas Mac Dowell * Antonio Sérgio Pizarro Fragomeni *

Ariano Suassuna Ariano Vilar Suassuna (; 16 June 1927 – 23 July 2014) was a Brazilian playwright and author. He was the driving force behind the creation of the ''Movimento Armorial''. He founded the Student Theater at Federal University of Pernambuco. Fou ...

* Cláudio José Marinho Lúcio * Claudio Luiz Fróes Raeder * Francisco Ariosto Holanda * Hélio Guedes de Campos Barros * Henrique Gomes de Paiva Lins de Barros * Hermann Heinemann Wever * Ivan Moura Campos * Jerson Kelman * João Roberto Rodrigues * John Milne Albuquerque Forman * José Augusto Guilhon de Albuquerque * José dos Prazeres Ferreira * Lourival Carmo Monaco * Lucia Carvalho Pinto de Melo * Luiz Philippe da Costa Fernandes * Márcio Quintão Moreno * Marcionilo de Barros Lins * Marcos Antonio Sacramento de Oliveira * Maria Aparecida Stalliveri Neves * Maria Helena Guimarães de Castro * Maria Laura da Rocha * Marilia Sardenberg Zelner Gonçalves * Mario Brockmann Machado * Marisa Barbar Cassim * Maurício Otávio Mendonça Jorge * Oscar Soto Lorenzo Fernandez * Oskar Klingl * Oswaldo Moreira Douat * Ozório José de Menezes Fonseca * Paulo Alcântara Gomes * Paulo de Góes Filho * Pedro Magalhães Guimarães Ferreira * Regina Weinberg * Sergio de Almeida Bruni * Simone Henriqueta Cossetin Scholze * Stefan Bogdan Salej * Tânia Bacelar de Araújo * Wrana Maria Panizzi

Deceased

* Álvaro Santos Costa * Aristides Azevedo Pacheco Leão * Carl Peter von Dietrich *

Carlos Chagas Filho Carlos Chagas Filho (September 10, 1910 – February 16, 2000) was a Brazilian physician, biologist and scientist active in the field of neuroscience. He was internationally renowned for his investigations on the neural mechanisms underlying ...

* Cesar Timo-Iaría * Graziela Maciel Barroso * Haity Moussatché * Henrique Bergamin Filho * Herman Lent *

Johanna Döbereiner Johanna Liesbeth Kubelka Döbereiner (28 November 1924 – 5 October 2000) was a Brazilian agronomist. Biography Döbereiner was born in Ústí nad Labem, Czechoslovakia on the 28 November 1924. Her family were German Czechoslovakians from Auss ...

* José Candido de Melo de Carvalho * José Márcio Corrêa Ayres *

José Ribeiro do Valle José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacu ...

* Luiz Rachid Trabulsi * Marcos Luiz dos Mares Guia *

Paulo Sawaya Paulo is a Portuguese, Spanish, Swiss, and Italian masculine given name equivalent to English Paul. Notable people with the name include: * Paulo Jr. *Paulo Jr. (footballer) *Paulo Almeida, Brazilian footballer *Paulo André Cren Benini (born 198 ...

* Wilson Teixeira Beraldo * Zigman Brener * Amaro Lanari Júnior * Elysiario Távora Filho * Mario Abrantes da Silva Pinto * Bernhard Gross *

Cesar Lattes Cesar, César or Cèsar may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * ''César'' (film), a 1936 film directed by Marcel Pagnol * ''César'' (play), a play by Marcel Pagnolt * César Award, a French film award Places * Cesar, Portugal * Ces ...

José Leite Lopes José Leite Lopes (October 28, 1918 – June 12, 2006) was a Brazilian theoretical physicist who worked in the field of quantum field theory and particle physics. Life Leite Lopes began his university studies in 1935, enrolling in industrial ...

* Antonio Cechelli de Mattos Paiva * Francisco Jeronymo Salles Lara * Giuseppe Cilento * José Moura Gonçalves * Celso Monteiro Furtado * Francisco Iglesias *

Mario Henrique Simonsen is a character created by Japanese video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. He is the title character of the ''Mario'' franchise and the mascot of Japanese video game company Nintendo. Mario has appeared in over 200 video games since his crea ...

Casimiro Montenegro Filho Casimiro Montenegro Filho (29 October 1904—26 February 2000) was a Brazilian army and air force officer. He reached the rank of Marechal-do-ar, the highest rank of the Brazilian Air Force rank system. Born in Fortaleza, Montenegro joined Reale ...

* Fernando Luiz Lobo Barboza Carneiro *

Abdus Salam Mohammad Abdus Salam Salam adopted the forename "Mohammad" in 1974 in response to the anti-Ahmadiyya decrees in Pakistan, similarly he grew his beard. (; ; 29 January 192621 November 1996) was a Punjabis, Punjabi Pakistani theoretical physici ...

* Harald Felix Ludwig Sioli *

Henry Taube Henry Taube, (November 30, 1915 – November 16, 2005) was a Canadian-born American chemist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "his work in the mechanisms of electron-transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes." He ...

* Juan José Giambiagi * Michael Robert Herman *

René Thom René Frédéric Thom (; 2 September 1923 – 25 October 2002) was a French mathematician, who received the Fields Medal in 1958. He made his reputation as a topologist, moving on to aspects of what would be called singularity theory; he becam ...

* Richard McGee Morse *

Shiing-Shen Chern Shiing-Shen Chern (; , ; October 28, 1911 – December 3, 2004) was a Chinese-American mathematician and poet. He made fundamental contributions to differential geometry and topology. He has been called the "father of modern differential geome ...

William Donald Hamilton William Donald Hamilton (1 August 1936 – 7 March 2000) was a British evolutionary biologist, recognised as one of the most significant evolutionary theorists of the 20th century. Hamilton became known for his theoretical work expounding a ...

* Alberto Carvalho da Silva * Carolina Martuscelli Bori * José Pelúcio Ferreira * José Reis * Vilmar Evangelista Faria *

Carlos Ribeiro Diniz Carlos may refer to: Places ;Canada * Carlos, Alberta, a locality ;United States * Carlos, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Carlos, Maryland, a place in Allegany County * Carlos, Minnesota, a small city * Carlos, West Virginia ;Elsewher ...

* Fernando Braga Ubatuba * Luiz Fernando Gouvêa Labouriau * Mario Ulysses Vianna Dias * Naíde Regueira Teodósio * Francisco Romeu Landi * José Roberto Leite * Candido Lima da Silva Dias * Ernesto Giesbrecht * Berta Gleiser Ribeiro * Milton Almeida dos Santos

External links

National Order of Scientific Merit - Official Website

{{DEFAULTSORT:Scientific Merit Brazilian science and technology awards Orders, decorations, and medals of Brazil * 1993 establishments in Brazil Awards established in 1993