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 financial support and approval, that co-ordinates scholarly research activities and standards for academic disciplines, most frequently in the sciences but also the hu ...

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 b ...

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 * 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 physiol ...

* 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 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 ...

* 1967–1981

Aristides Pacheco Leão Aristides ( ; grc-gre, Ἀριστείδης, Aristeídēs, ; 530–468 BC) was an ancient Athenian statesman. Nicknamed "the Just" (δίκαιος, ''dikaios''), he flourished in the early quarter of Athens' Classical period and is remember ...

* 1981–1991 Maurício Peixoto * 1991–1993

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 ...

* 1993–2007

Eduardo 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, ...

* 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 2014 Alain Meunier (born 22 June 1942 in Paris) is a French cellist. Meunier was born in Paris, the third child among four siblings. Starting the cello at the age of 13 and received premier prix in chamber music at 15 and in cello at 16. He sudde ...

Alfred Maddock Alfred Gavin Maddock (1917–2009) was an English inorganic chemist, radiochemist and spectroscopist who worked on the Tube Alloys Project and the Manhattan Project during World War II. Those projects resulted in the development of the atomi ...

* Alvaro Penteado Crosta * Amir Ordacgi Caldeira *

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 ...

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 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 ...

* Charles D. Michener *

Chen Ning Yang Yang Chen-Ning or Chen-Ning Yang (; born 1 October 1922), also known as C. N. Yang or by the English name Frank Yang, is a Chinese theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to statistical mechanics, integrable systems, gauge t ...

* Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao * Claude Cohen-Tannoudji *

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 ...

* Crodowaldo Pavan *

D. Allan Bromley David Allan Bromley (May 4, 1926 – February 10, 2005) was a Canadian-American physicist, academic administrator and science advisor to American president George H. W. Bush. His field of research was the study of low-energy nuclear reactions a ...

* David Goldstein * David Henry Peter Maybury-Lewis * Edmundo de Souza e Silva * Eduardo Moacyr Krieger * 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 ...

* Jean-Christophe Yoccoz * Jens Martin Knudsen *

John Campbell Brown John Campbell Brown (4 February 1947 – 16 November 2019) was a Scottish astronomer who worked primarily in solar physics. He held the posts of Astronomer Royal for Scotland, the Regius Professor of Astronomy at the University of Glasgow, ...

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 ...

* Liu Hsu * Luiz Pinguelli Rosa * Marcia C. Barbosa * Marco Antonio Zago * Marcos Moshinsky * Maurício Rocha e Silva * Mayana Zatz * Mildred S. Dresselhaus *

Nicole Marthe Le Douarin Nicole Marthe Le Douarin (born 20 August 1930) is a developmental biologist known for her studies of chimeras, which have led to critical insights regarding higher animal nervous and immune systems. Le Douarin invented an embryo manipulation ...

* Nivio Ziviani * Norman Ernest Borlaug * Nuno Alvares Pereira *

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 ...

* Peter H. Raven *

Pierre Gilles de Gennes Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (; 24 October 1932 – 18 May 2007) was a French physicist and the Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 1991. Education and early life He was born in Paris, France, and was home-schooled to the age of 12. By the age of ...

* Ricardo Renzo Brentani *

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 ...

* Richard Williams * Sérgio Henrique Ferreira * Simon Schwartzman * 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