The Brazilian Academy of Sciences ( pt, italic=yes, Academia Brasileira de Ciências or ''ABC'') is the

national academy A national academy is an organizational body, usually operating with State (polity), state financial support and approval, that co-ordinates scholarly research activities and standards for academic disciplines, most frequently in the sciences but ...

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 ...

. It is headquartered in the city of

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a ...

and was founded on May 3, 1916.

Publications

It publishes a large number of scientific publications, among them the ''Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências'' ''Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências'' basic information
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People

Presidents

* 1916–1926 Henrique Charles Morize * 1926–1929

Juliano Moreira Juliano Moreira (6 January 1872 – 2 May 1933) was a Brazilian psychiatrist, often considered the pioneer of psychoanalysis in Brazil. Moreira was the first Brazilian university professor to cite and use the psychoanalytic theory in the teaching ...

* 1929–1931

Miguel Osório de Almeida Miguel Osório de Almeida (September 1, 1890 – December 2, 1952, both in Rio de Janeiro) was a noted Brazilian physician and scientist, brother of another scientist, Álvaro Osório de Almeida, both considered the ''fathers'' of modern physiolo ...

* 1931–1933 Eusébio Paulo de Oliveira * 1933–1935 Arthur Alexandre Moses * 1935–1937 Álvaro Alberto da Mota e Silva * 1937–1939 Adalberto Menezes de Oliveira * 1939–1941 Inácio Manuel Azevedo do Amaral * 1941–1943 Arthur Alexandre Moses * 1943–1945 Cândido Firmino de Melo Leitão * 1945–1947 Mario Paulo de Brito * 1947–1949 Arthur Alexandre Moses * 1949–1951 Álvaro Alberto da Mota e Silva * 1951–1965 Arthur Alexandre Moses * 1965–1967 Carlos Chagas Filho * 1967–1981 Aristides Pacheco Leão * 1981–1991

Maurício Peixoto Maurício Matos Peixoto, (April 15, 1921, in Fortaleza, Ceará – April 28, 2019, in Rio de Janeiro), was a Brazilian engineer and mathematician. He pioneered the studies on structural stability, and was the author of Peixoto's theorem. Biogra ...

* 1991–1993 Oscar Sala * 1993–2007 Eduardo Krieger * 2007–2016 Jacob Palis Jr. * 2016– Luiz DavidovichBrazilian Academy of Sciences
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Notable members

ABC has a distinguished array of national and international members, among them: * Alain Meunier * Alfred Maddock * Alvaro Penteado Crosta * Amir Ordacgi Caldeira * Aziz Nacib Ab'Saber *

Carl Djerassi Carl Djerassi (October 29, 1923 – January 30, 2015) was an Austrian-born Bulgarian-American pharmaceutical chemist, novelist, playwright and co-founder of Djerassi Resident Artists Program with Diane Wood Middlebrook. He is best known for his ...

* Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz *

Charles D. Michener Charles Duncan Michener (September 22, 1918 – November 1, 2015) was an American entomologist born in Pasadena, California. He was a leading expert on bees, his ''magnum opus'' being ''The Bees of the World'' published in 2000. __TOC__ Biograp ...

* Chen Ning Yang *

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 ...

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 Tsal ...

Crodowaldo Pavan Crodowaldo Pavan (; December 1, 1919 – April 3, 2009) was a Brazilian biologist and geneticist, and a scientific leader in Brazil. Early life Pavan was born to a family of second-generation immigrants from Italy in 1919, in the city of Campi ...

* D. Allan Bromley * David Goldstein * David Henry Peter Maybury-Lewis * Edmundo de Souza e Silva *

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 * Ernst Wolfgang Hamburger * Harold Max Rosenberg *

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jens Martin Knudsen Jens Martin Knudsen (12 October 1930 – 17 February 2005) was a Danish astrophysicist. During his scientific career Knudsen authored or co-authored more than 100 scientific articles, and was a longtime advisor to NASA. Early years Knudsen w ...

* John Campbell Brown *

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 ...

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 che ...

* Liu Hsu * Luiz Pinguelli Rosa * Marcia C. Barbosa * Marco Antonio Zago *

Marcos Moshinsky Marcos Moshinsky Borodiansky (russian: Маркос Мошинский Бородянский; uk, Маркос Мошинскі; 1921–2009) was a Mexican physicist of Ukrainian-Jewish origin whose work in the field of elementary particles wo ...

Maurício Rocha e Silva Maurício Oscar da Rocha e Silva (19 September 1910, Rio de Janeiro – 19 December 1983, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil) was a Brazilian physician, biomedical scientist and pharmacologist. He discovered bradykinin, an endogenous polypeptide involved ...

* Mayana Zatz *

Mildred S. Dresselhaus Mildred Dresselhaus''Mildred Dresselhaus'' was elected in 1974

* Nicole Marthe Le Douarin * Nivio Ziviani * Norman Ernest Borlaug *

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* Oscar Sala * Oswaldo Frota-Pessoa * Peter H. Raven * Pierre Gilles de Gennes * Ricardo Renzo Brentani * Richard Darwin Keynes * Richard Williams *

Sérgio Henrique Ferreira Sérgio Henrique Ferreira (October 4, 1934 – July 17, 2016) was a Brazilian physician and pharmacologist noted for the discovery of the bradykinin potentiating factor, which led to new and widely used anti- hypertension drugs — the ACE inhibi ...

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 ...

* Stanley Kirschner * * Walter S. Leal *

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 ...

* William Sefton Fyfe

References

External links

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List of publications
1916 establishments in Brazil

Scientific organisations based in Brazil Scientific organizations established in 1916 Members of the International Council for Science Organisations based in Rio de Janeiro (city) Members of the International Science Council {{Brazil-org-stub