Retrospect

Retrospect

A controversial vaccine

Early attempts to prevent yellow fever in Brazil, in 1883, were beset by controversy

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For a sanitized city

Created a century ago, the Laboratory of Hygiene was the precursor of the School of Public Health at USP

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For the mad, the madhouse

The first insane asylums in Brazil were built in the mid-nineteenth century in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo

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Science in the wilderness

Scientific expeditions gave new insight into health in 20th century rural Brazil

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Multiple links in the innovation chain

FINEP celebrates its 50th anniversary with a broad mandate and a funding crisis

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Providing a legal education

Law schools contributed to the development of a national identity

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Innovation during the Empire

First patents law helped encourage innovation in Brazil in the 19th century

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An independent collector

Wanda Hanke traveled alone throughout South America in the 1930s

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Researchers of the sea

Oceanography began to be consolidated in Brazil in the 1940s

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MEMORY

For the sake of plant and animal health

At age 90, the Biological Institute has become a center for research

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Medicine in the countryside

Samuel Pessoa helped forge an intellectual tradition of public health

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The women of psychoanalysis

Women have contributed to the spread of Freud’s ideas in Brazil

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Pioneering spirit in women’s health

The Institute of Gynecology perfected strategies to fight cervical cancer

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Benvenuti, Doctors!

Italian physicians contributed to research in São Paulo

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Doctor Benignus and the aliens

Doctor Benignus was the first science fiction book published in Brazil

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Oriental excavations

Archeologist produced collection based on his scientific expeditions to Brazil

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The Empire’s river

Halfeld was the first to conduct a survey of the São Francisco River

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Genetics’ roots in Brazil

Mendelism teaching in agronomy schools of São Paulo began in 1910

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Subverting the genre

Marie Curie was awarded her second Nobel Prize one hundred years ago

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In history’s shadow

Jessé Acioly identified the mechanism for inheriting sickle cell anemia

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A country in statistics

The IBGE has modernized its social and economic statistics in Brazil

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Recognizing the researchers

The Brazilian Academy of Sciences celebrates its centennial anniversary

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One man’s laboratory

Museum in the Amazon propelled the scientific career of botanist

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The Brazilian side of Goethe

Goethe's writings were influenced by the works of naturalists

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Good-bye to the Prof. Besnard

University has to remove oceanographic vessel from the port

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The eclipse that confirmed Einstein’s theory

National Observatory restores photographic plates of the 1919 solar eclipse

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The legend of an invisible monk

Gregor Mendel’s experiments with pea plants gave birth to genetics

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Where art and science intersect

Publication highlights the importance of scientific illustration

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Well-milled wheat and corn

Watermills reveal manufacturing techniques dating back to the 17th century

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History in Flasks

Glass flasks help tell the story of chemistry’s beginnings at USP

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