Talk:List of Brazilian scientists

The purpose of this page could be to monitor our progress in writing the corresponding biographies
Brazil has thousands of scientists who have made notable contributions to human knowledge and who deserve mention, if not full biographies, in Wikipedia. This List of Brazilian scientists could be used to monitor our progress in writing their biographies, rather than the creation of hundreds of hard to locate stubs. We should take pride in watching red links on this list being replaced with blue ones.

As in discussions on the very useful Infobox:Scientist template, there is confusion here with "nationality" and "citizenship." No one was Brazilian if they were born before Brazilian independence in 1828, but it seems silly to place scientists born in Brazil in the Portuguese column. Many foreign-born scientists who immigrated to Brazil were granted Brazilian citizenship, and their careers unfolded mostly in this country. In their works, if not in their passports, they were Brazilian. I would vote for their inclusion in this list, often with the qualifier "US-born" or "German-born" where appropriate. This way, the famous ornithologist Helmut Sick, who worked almost all his life in Brazil, is not just a "German" scientist.

The dividing line between scientists and naturalists has yet to be drawn. For the moment, both Brazilian scientists and naturalists should find a safe harbor on this list.

--Wloveral (talk) 17:44, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

More names
More Brazilian scientists

--Wloveral (talk) 18:34, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Alberto Carvalho da Silva
 * Aziz N. Ab’Sáber, geographer
 * Berta G. Ribeiro, anthropologist
 * Berta K. Becker, geographer
 * Breno Augusto dos Santos, geologist
 * Cândido de Mello Leitão (1886-1948)
 * Carlos A. Nobre, climatologist
 * Carlos H. W. Flechtmann, acarologist
 * Curt Niemandaju, anthropologist
 * Dantes Teixeira, ornithologist and historian of science
 * Eneas Salati, climatologist
 * Francisco Freire Allemão de Cysneiros (1794 – 1866), botanist
 * Frederico Carlos Hoehne (1882-1959)
 * Guilherme Marcos M. de La Penha, mathematician
 * João Murça Pires, botanist
 * José Bonifácio, minerologist
 * José Leite Lopes
 * Josué de Castro (1908-1973)
 * Lauro Pereira Travassos
 * Louis Gottfried Hagmann, zoologist
 * Manuel Amoroso Costa
 * Orlando Valverde, geographer
 * Oswaldo Rodrigues Cunha, herpetologist and historian of science
 * Otto Gottlieb, phytochemist
 * Pirajá da Silva
 * Vernon Thatcher, parasitologist
 * Walter A. Neves, anthropologist
 * Jacques Hüber, botanist
 * Paul Le Conte, botanist
 * I will write this once: lists are NOT places for listing possibly, even probably notable people who dont have articles yet, unless you take the time to add at least one reliable source indicating the persons notability in science, and their status as a brazilian national, or resident. If anyone wants to request an article be written on one of these people, there are places on WP to request articles. Lists are for confirmed notability only, otherwise it becomes a directory and open to self promotion.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 19:58, 29 August 2010 (UTC)