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 for ...

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 to ...

* 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 i ...

* Marcelo Hermes-Lima * Jorge Curi *

João Saldanha João Alves Jobin Saldanha (3 July 1917 – 12 July 1990) was a Brazilian journalist and football manager. He coached the Brazil national football team during the South American Qualifying to the 1970 FIFA World Cup. Nicknamed ''João Sem Me ...

Mario Vianna is a character (arts), character created by Japanese video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. He is the title character of the ''Mario (franchise), Mario'' franchise and the mascot of Japanese video game company Nintendo. Mario has appeared in ...

* Ady Raul da Silva *

Alberto Duque Portugal Alberto is the Romance version of the Latinized form (''Albertus'') of Germanic ''Albert''. It is used in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The diminutive forms are ''Albertito'' in Spain or ''Albertico'' in some parts of Latin America, Albertin ...

* Aloysio Campos da Paz Júnior * Aluízio Rosa Prata * Amadeu Cury *

Antonio Flatus de Carvalho Antonio is a masculine given name of Etruscan origin deriving from the root name Antonius. It is a common name among Romance language-speaking populations as well as the Balkans and Lusophone Africa. It has been among the top 400 most popular mal ...

Carlos Eduardo Guinle da Rocha Miranda Ricasso 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 ...

Carlos Medicis Morel 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 ...

* Crodowaldo Peidao *

Dora Selma Fix Ventura Dora may stand for: *Dora (given name) Places United States *Dora, Alabama * Dora, Arkansas *Dora, Missouri *Dora, New Mexico * Dora, Oregon *Dora, Pennsylvania *Mount Dora, Florida Other countries *Lake Dora (Tasmania) *Lake Dora (Western A ...

Eduardo Moacyr Krieger Eduardo Moacyr Krieger (born June 27, 1928, Cerro Largo, Rio Grande do Sul) is a Brazilian physician, physiologist and scientific leader, current president of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. Life Krieger was born to a family of German origins, i ...

Eduardo Oswaldo Cruz Credo Eduardo is the Spanish language, Spanish and Portuguese language, Portuguese form of the male given name Edward. Another version is Duarte (name), Duarte. It may refer to: Association football * Eduardo Bonvallet, Chilean football player and spor ...

* Elisaldo Luiz de Araújo Carlini *

Ernesto Paterniani Ernesto, form of the name Ernest in several Romance languages, may refer to: * ''Ernesto'' (novel) (1953), an unfinished autobiographical novel by Umberto Saba, published posthumously in 1975 ** ''Ernesto'' (film), a 1979 Italian drama loosely ba ...

* Erney Felício Plessmann de Camargo * Esper Abrão Cavalheiro *

Francisco Mauro Salzano Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name ''Franciscus''. Nicknames In Spanish, people with the name Francisco are sometimes nicknamed "Paco". San Francisco de Asís was known as ''Pater Comunitatis'' (father of ...

* Fúlvio José Carlos Pileggi *

Gerhard Malnic Gerhard is a name of Germanic origin and may refer to: Given name * Gerhard (bishop of Passau) (fl. 932–946), German prelate * Gerhard III, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg (1292–1340), German prince, regent of Denmark * Gerhard Barkhorn (1919–19 ...

* Giovanni Gazzinelli * Glaci Therezinha Zancan * Hiss Martins Ferreira *

Isaias Raw Isaiah ( or ; he, , ''Yəšaʿyāhū'', "Yahweh, God is Salvation"), also known as Isaias, was the 8th-century BC Israelite Biblical prophet, prophet after whom the Book of Isaiah is named. Within the text of the Book of Isaiah, Isaiah hims ...

* 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 (biology), order of insects, comprising the sawfly, sawf ...

* José Antunes Robson * José Galizia Tundisi *

Leopoldo Love Mademoiselle Leopoldo is a given name, the Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese form of the English, German, Dutch, Polish, and Slovene name, Leopold. Notable people with the name include: *Leopoldo de' Medici (1617–1675), Italian cardinal and Governor of Sien ...

Luiz Antonio Barreto de Castro Luiz is a Portuguese language, Portuguese given name that is an alternative form of Luis, Luís. It's archaic in Portugal, but common in Brazil. Notable people referred to by this name include the following: People *Luiz Bonfá (1922-2001), Brazili ...

* Luiz Hildebrando Pereira da Silva *

Luiz Rodolpho Raja Gabaglia Travassos Luiz is a Portuguese language, Portuguese given name that is an alternative form of Luis, Luís. It's archaic in Portugal, but common in Brazil. Notable people referred to by this name include the following: People *Luiz Bonfá (1922-2001), Brazili ...

* Martha Vannucci * Maurício Rocha e Silva e Pedra *

Mayana Zatz Mayana Zatz (born July 16, 1947) is a Brazilian molecular biologist and geneticist. She is a professor at the University of São Paulo, is its Research Dean (education), dean. Biography Professor Zatz's accomplishments have been recognized and sh ...

Michel Rabinovitch Michel may refer to: * Michel (name), a given name or surname of French origin (and list of people with the name) * Míchel (nickname), a nickname (a list of people with the nickname, mainly Spanish footballers) * Míchel (footballer, born 1963), S ...

* Oswaldo Frota-Pessoa * Paulo de Tarso Alvim * Paulo Emílio Vanzolini * Ricardo Gazzinelli * Ricardo Gattass * Rogério Mereghini * Ruth Sonntag Nussenzweig * Sérgio Henrique Ferreira Pina-Colada *

Victor Nussenzweig The name Victor or Viktor may refer to: * Victor (name), including a list of people with the given name, mononym, or surname Arts and entertainment Film * ''Victor'' (1951 film), a French drama film * ''Victor'' (1993 film), a French shor ...

* 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 African ...

* Wladimir Lobato Paraense * Zilton Araujo Andrade

Engineering Engineering is the use of scientific method, 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 rang ...

* Caspar Erich Stemmer * Evando Mirra de Paula e Silva *

Luiz Bevilacqua Luiz Bevilacqua is a Brazilian scientist best known for his work as President of the Brazilian Space Agency (2003–2004) and as Secretary General of the Ministry of Science and Technology (1992–1993). Currently serves as Emeritus Professor, UF ...

* Luiz Gylvan Meira Filho *

Ozires Silva Ozires Silva (born January 8, 1931) is the founder of Embraer and a famous Brazilian entrepreneur. Ozires was born in Bauru–São Paulo state. He graduated on Escola de Aeronáutica do Campo dos Afonsos (Rio de Janeiro) as a military pilot. He ...

* 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 spheres ...

* 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 m ...

* Cândido Simões Ferreira *

Eneas Salati In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas (, ; from ) was a Trojan hero, the son of the Trojan prince Anchises and the Greek goddess Aphrodite (equivalent to the Roman Venus). His father was a first cousin of King Priam of Troy (both being grandsons ...

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 Milton may refer to: Names * Milton (surname), a surname (and list of people with that surname) ** John Milton (1608–1674), English poet * Milton (given name) ** Milton Friedman (1912–2006), Nobel Prize, Nobel laureate in Economics, author ...

* 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 r ...

* Affonso Augusto Guidão Gomes * Alaor Silvério Chaves * Amós Troper * Argus Fagundes Ourique Moreira *

Belita Koiller Belita Koiller is a Brazilian Professor of Physics at the Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil. She is a Condensed Matter Theorist, and has contributed to the understanding of the properties of disordered so ...

* 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 Herch Moysés Nussenzveig (16 January 1933 – 5 November 2022) was a Brazilian physicist, professor at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. He authored several textbooks, notably the collection ...

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 of ...

* 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 Schen ...

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 life ...

* 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 of ...

* Sergio Machado Rezende * Sérgio Mascarenhas de Oliveira * Theodor August Johannes Maris * Mohamed H.A. Hassan

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 * Aloísio Pessoa de Araújo * César Leopoldo Camacho * Djairo Guedes de Figueiredo *

Elon Lages Lima Elon Lages Lima (July 9, 1929 – May 7, 2017) was a Brazilian mathematician whose research concerned differential topology, algebraic topology, and differential geometry. Lima was an influential figure in the development of mathematics in Brazil. ...

Imre Simon Imre Simon (August 14, 1943 – August 13, 2009) was a Hungarian-born Brazilian mathematician and computer scientist. His research mainly focused on theoretical computer science, automata theory, and tropical mathematics, a subject he founded, ...

* Jacob Palis Junior * João Lucas Marques Barbosa *

Jorge Manuel Sotomayor Tello Jorge Manuel Sotomayor Tello (25 March 1942 – 7 January 2022) was a Peruvian-born Brazilian mathematician who worked on differential equations, bifurcation theory, and differential equations of classical geometry. He is one of five sons of Al ...

* Manfredo Perdigão do Carmo *

Marcelo Miranda Viana da Silva Marcelo Miranda Viana da Silva (born 4 March 1962) is a Brazilian mathematician working in dynamical systems theory. He was a Guggenheim Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellow in 1993. He received the TWAS Prize in 1998 and in 2005 he was awarded the ina ...

* Maurício Matos Peixoto * Paolo Piccione * Sylvio Ferraz-Mello *

Welington Celso de Melo Welington Celso de Melo (17 November 1946 – 21 December 2016) was a Brazilian mathematician. Known for his contributions to dynamical systems theory, he served as full professor at Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada from 1980 to ...

Chemistry Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...

* Alaíde Braga de Oliveira *

Angelo da Cunha Pinto Angelo is an Italian masculine given name and surname meaning "angel", or "messenger". People People with the given name *Angelo Accattino (born 1966), Italian prelate of the Catholic Church *Angelo Acciaioli (bishop) (1298–1357), Italian Ro ...

* Cláudio Airoldi * Eloisa Biasotto Mano * Gilberto Fernandes de Sá * Hernan Chaimovich Guralnik * José Manuel Riveros Nigra :pt:José Manuel Riveros Nigra * Manuel Mateus Ventura *

Nicola Petragnani Nicola may refer to: People * Nicola (name), including a list of people with the given name or, less commonly, the surname **Nicola (artist) or Nicoleta Alexandru, singer who represented Romania at the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest * Nicola people, ...

* Otto Richard Gottlieb * Paschoal Ernesto Américo Senise * Ricardo de Carvalho Ferreira *

Roy Edward Bruns Roy is a masculine given name and a family surname with varied origin. In Anglo-Norman England, the name derived from the Norman ''roy'', meaning "king", while its Old French cognate, ''rey'' or ''roy'' (modern ''roi''), likewise gave rise to ...

* 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 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 ;Elsewhere ...

* Elisa Maria da Conceição Pereira Reis * Elza Salvatori Berquó * Evaldo Cabral de Mello * 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 * Juarez Rubens Brandão Lopes * Leôncio Martins Rodrigues *

Luciano Martins de Almeida Luciano is an Italian, Spanish and Portuguese given name and surname. It is derived from Latin ''Lucianus'', patronymic of ''Lucius'' ("Light"). The French language, French form is ''Lucien'', while the Basque language, Basque form is ''Luken''. ...

Luiz de Castro Faria Luiz is a Portuguese language, Portuguese given name that is an alternative form of Luis, Luís. It's archaic in Portugal, but common in Brazil. Notable people referred to by this name include the following: People *Luiz Bonfá (1922-2001), Brazili ...

* Otávio Guilherme Cardoso Alves Velho *

Roberto Augusto DaMatta Roberto DaMatta (born July 29, 1936) is a Brazilian anthropologist. He is an emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame.

* 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, science, ...

* 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 Tércio Pacitti (September 9, 1928 in Atibaia - June 18, 2014 in Rio de Janeiro), São Paulo, Brazil was an electronic engineer and computer scientist in Brazil. Biography Pacitti was born in Atibaia-SP, Brazil, son of Antônio Pacitti and ...

* Teresa Bernarda Ludermir * Walter Borzani

Foreign personalities

* Alfred Gavin Maddock *

Amartya Kumar Sen Amartya Kumar Sen (; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher, who since 1972 has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States. Sen has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, economic ...

* Andrew John George Simpson * Armando José Ponce de Leão Policarpo * Benjamin Gilbert *

Brian Frederick Gilbert Johnson Brian Frederick Gilbert Johnson (born 11 September 1938 in Northampton, England) is a British scientist and emeritus professor of chemistry at the University of Cambridge. He was also Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge from 1999 to 2005. ...

Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao BR, (born 30 June 1934), is an Indian chemist who has worked mainly in solid-state and structural chemistry. He has honorary doctorates from 84 universities from around the world and has authored around 1,77 ...

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 Anthro ...

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

David James Waddington David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...

David Pierre Ruelle David Pierre Ruelle (; born 20 August 1935) is a Belgian mathematical physicist, naturalized French. He has worked on statistical physics and dynamical systems. With Floris Takens, Ruelle coined the term '' strange attractor'', and developed a ...

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 Ce ...

* 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 Harold Max Rosenberg (26 August 1922 – 21 November 1993), was a distinguished experimental physicist who is notable for two successful textbooks: ''Low Temperature Solid State Physics'' (1963) and ''The Solid State'' (1975) and over one hundred ...

* Henri Jean François Dumont *

Igor Saavedra Igor Saavedra (Santiago de Chile, May 31, 1966 ) is a player and pioneer of the extended-range bass (ERB) guitar. , he has dedicated his musical career to the study and performing of the eight string extended-range bass guitar and is considered ...

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 É ...

* 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 sil ...

* John Norman Mather *

Jorge Allende Jorge Eduardo Allende Rivera, (born 11 November 1934) is a Chilean biochemist and biophysicist known for his contributions to the understanding of proteic biosynthesis and how transfer RNA is generated, and the regulation of maturation of ...

Kenneth Maxwell Kenneth Robert Maxwell (born March 3, 1941) is a British historian who specializes in Iberia and Latin America. A longtime member of the Council on Foreign Relations, for six years he headed its Latin America Studies Program. His May 13, 2004 resi ...

Leon M. Lederman Leon Max Lederman (July 15, 1922 – October 3, 2018) was an American experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988, along with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, for research on neutrinos. He also received the Wolf Pr ...

Liu Jiyuan Liu Jiyuan () (died in 992), also known by his regnal name Emperor Yingwu of (Northern) Han ((北)漢英武帝), was the last ruler of the Shatuo-led Chinese Northern Han dynasty during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. He was the gra ...

* Mário João de Oliveira Ruivo * Mohamed H.A. Hassan *

Norman Ernest Borlaug Norman Ernest Borlaug (; March 25, 1914September 12, 2009) was an American agronomist who led initiatives worldwide that contributed to the extensive increases in agricultural production termed the Green Revolution. Borlaug was awarded multiple ...

* Oscar Armando Quihillalt *

Paul Alexander Schweitzer Paul Alexander Schweitzer SJ (born July 21, 1937) is an American mathematician specializing in differential topology, geometric topology, and algebraic topology. Schweitzer has done research on foliations, knot theory, and 3-manifolds. In 197 ...

Phillip A. Griffiths Phillip Augustus Griffiths IV (born October 18, 1938) is an American mathematician, known for his work in the field of geometry Geometry (; ) is, with arithmetic, one of the oldest branches of mathematics. It is concerned with properti ...

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 ''T ...

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 *

* 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 facult ...

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 in ...

* 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 disco ...

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

National personalities

* Abílio Afonso Baeta Neves * Adib Domingos Jatene * Aécio Neves da Cunha * Alcides Lopes Tápias * Aldo Vieira da Rosa * Ângela Tonelli Vaz Leão * Antônio Cesar Russi Callegari *

Antônio Ermírio de Moraes Antônio Ermírio de Moraes (June 4, 1928 – August 24, 2014) was a Brazilian billionaire businessman and the chairman of the Votorantim Group, one of the country's largest companies, focused on metals, paper, cement and frozen orange juice. He ...

* 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 Mayor of São Paulo from 2013 to 2016. He was the Workers' Party candid ...

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 footb ...

Itamar Augusto Cautiero Franco Itamar Augusto Cautiero Franco (; 28 June 19302 July 2011) was a Brazilian politician who served as the 33rd president of Brazil from 29 December 1992 to 31 December 1994. Previously, he was the 21st vice president of Brazil from 1990 until the ...

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

* José Anibal Peres Pontes * José Botafogo Gonçalves *

José Ephim Mindlin 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 vernacul ...

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 vernacul ...

* 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 Maciel, 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 * Oscar Niemeyer * Paulo Nogueira Neto * Paulo Renato de Souza * Pedro Sampaio Malan * Roberto Átila Amaral Vieira * Roberto João Pereira Freire * Ronaldo Mota Sardenberg * 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 to ...

* 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 i ...

* 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 * 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 method, 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 rang ...

* Álvaro Toubes Prata * Antonio Luz Furtado * 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 * 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 spheres ...

* 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 r ...

* 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 Barbuy, Beatriz Leonor Silveira Barbuy *

* Celso Pinto de Melo * Cid Bartolomeu de Araújo * Constantino Tsallis * 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 * Antonio Galves * Arnaldo Leite Pinto Garcia * Aron Simis * 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 * Luiz Velho * Marcio Gomes Soares * Marco Antonio Raupp * Paulo Domingos Cordaro * Renato de Azevedo Tribuzy

Chemistry Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...

* Anita Dolly Panek * Blanka Wladislaw * 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 * Marilena de Souza Chaui * Mariza Gomes e Souza Peirano * Max Justo Guedes * Norma Góes Monteiro * Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro * Renato de Andrade Lessa * Renato Janine Ribeiro * 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, science, ...

* 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 * 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 * 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 * Cesar Timo-Iaría * Graziela Maciel Barroso * Haity Moussatché * Henrique Bergamin Filho * Herman Lent * Johanna Döbereiner * José Candido de Melo de Carvalho * José Márcio Corrêa Ayres * José Ribeiro do Valle * Luiz Rachid Trabulsi * Marcos Luiz dos Mares Guia * Paulo Sawaya * Wilson Teixeira Beraldo * Zigman Brener * Amaro Lanari Júnior * Elysiario Távora Filho * Mario Abrantes da Silva Pinto * Bernhard Gross * Cesar Lattes * José Leite Lopes * Antonio Cechelli de Mattos Paiva * Francisco Jeronymo Salles Lara * Giuseppe Cilento * José Moura Gonçalves * Celso Monteiro Furtado * Francisco Iglesias * Mario Henrique Simonsen * Casimiro Montenegro Filho * Fernando Luiz Lobo Barboza Carneiro * Abdus Salam * Harald Felix Ludwig Sioli * Henry Taube * Juan José Giambiagi * Michael Robert Herman * René Thom * Richard McGee Morse * Shiing-Shen Chern * William Donald Hamilton * Alberto Carvalho da Silva * Carolina Martuscelli Bori * José Pelúcio Ferreira * José Reis (scientist), José Reis * Vilmar Evangelista Faria * Carlos Ribeiro Diniz * 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 Recipients of the National Order of Scientific Merit (Brazil), * 1993 establishments in Brazil Awards established in 1993