List of Brazilian inventions and discoveries
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Brazilian inventions and discoveries are items, processes, techniques or discoveries which owe their existence either partially or entirely to a person born in Brazil or to a citizen of Brazil.
Physics
[edit]- Pion by César Lattes, one of the discoverers
Maths
[edit]- Introduction to the concept of spectrum in topology, by Elon Lages Lima in 1958
- Peixoto's Theorem, by Maurício Peixoto in 1959
- Costa's minimal surface by Celso José da Costa in 1982
Medicine
[edit]Diseases
[edit]- Bradykinin by Mauricio Rocha e Silva, Wilson Teixeira Beraldo and Gastão Rosenfeld
- Chagas disease, pathogen, vector, host, clinical manifestations and epidemiology discovery, by Carlos Chagas
- Epidemic typhus, pathogen discovery, by Henrique da Rocha Lima
- Schistosomiasis, disease cycle discovery, by Pirajá da Silva
Procedures, techniques or medicines
[edit]- Chest photofluorography by Manuel Dias de Abreu
- Jatene procedure by Adib Jatene
- Anti-ophidic serum by Vital Brazil, he is also credited as the first to develop anti-scorpion and anti-spider serums, in 1908 and 1925, respectively
Engineering and electronics
[edit]- Electric shower, by Francisco Canhos Navarro.[1]
- Orelhão by Chu Ming Silveira.[2]
- Leme panoramic camera by Sebastião Carvalho Leme
Miscellaneous
[edit]- Brazilian jiu-jitsu martial art and combat sport created in the 1920s.
- Vanishing spray a substance applied to an association football pitch in order to provide a temporary visual marker, was created by Brazilian inventor Heine Allemagne.
- Participatory budgeting (PB) first developed in Porto Alegre, Brazil as 1986.
- Lua (programming language) created in 1993 by Roberto Ierusalimschy, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, and Waldemar Celes from Tecgraf.
References
[edit]- ^ "Conheça tecnologias e serviços que foram criados por brasileiros". TechTudo (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-06-25.
- ^ Padrão, Consumidor Moderno-Grupo (2017-05-08). "As 20 maiores invenções feitas no Brasil ou por brasileiros". Consumidor Moderno (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-06-26.