Brazilian Academy of Sciences
- Brazilian Academy of Sciences
The Brazilian Academy of Sciences (Portuguese: "Academia Brasileira de Ciências" or "ABC") is the national academy of Brazil. It was founded in 1916 in Rio de Janeiro, the then-capital of the country.
It publishes a large number of scientific publications, and has a distinguished array of national and international members. Among the most notable are:
*Alain Meunier
*Amir Ordacgi Caldeira
*Aziz Nacib Ab'Saber
*Carl Djerassi
*Charles D. Michener
*Chen Ning Yang
* Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao
*Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
*Constantino Tsallis
*Crodowaldo Pavan
*D. Allan Bromley
*David Goldstein
*David Henry Peter Maybury-Lewis
*Eduardo Moacyr Krieger
*Eduardo Oswaldo Cruz
*Ernst Wolfgang Hamburger
*Harold Max Rosenberg
*Henry Taube
*Jayme Tiomno
*Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
*Jens Martin Knudsen
*John Campbell Brown
*José Goldemberg
*José Leite Lopes
*Luiz Pinguelli Rosa
*Marco Antonio Zago
*Marcos Moshinsky
*Maurício Rocha e Silva
*Mayana Zatz
*Mildred S. Dresselhaus
*Nicole Marthe Le Douarin
*Norman Ernest Borlaug
*Nuno Alvares Pereira
*Oscar Sala
*Oswaldo Frota-Pessoa
*Peter H. Raven
*Pierre Gilles de Gennes
*Ricardo Renzo Brentani
*Richard Darwin Keynes
*Richard Williams
*Sérgio Henrique Ferreira
*Simon Schwartzman
*Stanley Kirschner
*Warwick Estevam Kerr
*William Sefton Fyfe
External links
* [http://www.abc.org.br Home page]
* [http://www.abc.org.br/publicacoes/outrasp.html List of publications]
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