Talk:List of Brazilian scientists

This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons (BLP) policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material about living persons. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted, or if you have other concerns, please report the issue to this noticeboard.

If you are a subject of this article, or acting on behalf of one, and you need help, please see this help page.

Biography: Science and Academia

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
	This article is supported by the science and academia work group.

Brazil: Education and science Mid‑importance

	Brazil portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Brazil, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Brazil and related topics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.BrazilWikipedia:WikiProject BrazilTemplate:WikiProject BrazilBrazil articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by the Education and Science in Brazil task force (assessed as Mid-importance).

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)[reply]

More names

More Brazilian scientists

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

--Wloveral (talk) 18:34, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]