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

• Pion by César Lattes, one of the discoverers

Maths

• 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

Diseases

• 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

• 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

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

Miscellaneous

• 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.
• Lua (programming language) created in 1993 by Roberto Ierusalimschy, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, and Waldemar Celes from Tecgraf.

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