List of Brazilian inventions and discoveries

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

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* Pion by César Lattes, one of the discoverers

## Mathematics

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* 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

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### Diseases

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* 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

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* 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

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* Electric shower, by Francisco Canhos Navarro.[1]
* Orelhão by Chu Ming Silveira.[2]
* Leme panoramic camera by Sebastião Carvalho Leme

## Miscellaneous

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* 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.
* Elixir (programming language) created in 2012 by José Valim from a research and development project at Plataformatec.

## References

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1. ^ "Conheça tecnologias e serviços que foram criados por brasileiros". TechTudo (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-06-25.
2. ^ 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.

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