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The Most Famous

PHYSICISTS from Brazil

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This page contains a list of the greatest Brazilian Physicists. The pantheon dataset contains 717 Physicists, 1 of which were born in Brazil. This makes Brazil the birth place of the 51st most number of Physicists behind Uzbekistan and Trinidad and Tobago.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Brazilian Physicists of all time. This list of famous Brazilian Physicists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. César Lattes (1924 - 2005)

With an HPI of 45.58, César Lattes is the most famous Brazilian Physicist.  His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.

Cesare Mansueto Giulio Lattes (11 July 1924 – 8 March 2005), also known as César Lattes, was a Brazilian experimental physicist, one of the discoverers of the pion, a composite subatomic particle made of a quark and an antiquark.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as physicists born between 1924 and 1924. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased physicists include César Lattes.

Deceased Physicists

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