National Order of Scientific Merit
| National Order of Scientific Merit Ordem Nacional do Mérito Científico | |
|---|---|
 Grand Cross of the Order  Insignia of the Commander's Cross of the Order | |
| Awarded by the Government of Brazil | |
| Type | National order |
| Eligibility | Brazilian and foreign personalities |
| Awarded for | scientific and technical contributions to the cause and development of science in Brazil |
| Status | currently awarded |
| Grades | Grand Cross (Grã-cruz) GCOMNC Commander (Comendador) COMNC |
| Precedence | |
| Next (higher) | National Order of Juridicial Merit |
| Next (lower) | Order of Cultural Merit |
 Ribbon bar of the Grand Cross  Ribbon bar of the Commander's Cross | |
The National Order of Scientific Merit (Portuguese: Ordem Nacional do Mérito Científico) is an honor bestowed upon Brazilian and foreign personalities recognized for their scientific and technical contributions to the cause and development of science in Brazil.
Grand Cross[]
Agriculture[]
Biology[]
- João Saldanha
- Eduardo Moacyr Krieger
- Giovanni Gazzinelli
- Jerson Lima Silva
- Jesus Santiago Moure
- Mayana Zatz
- Oswaldo Frota-Pessoa
- Paulo de Tarso Alvim
- Paulo Emílio Vanzolini
- Ruth Sonntag Nussenzweig
- Warwick Estevam Kerr
Engineering[]
Earth Science[]
Physics[]
- Belita Koiller
- Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz
- Herch Moysés Nussenzveig
- Jayme Tiomno
- José Goldemberg
- Marcelo Damy de Souza Santos
- Oscar Sala
- Samuel Wallace MacDowell
- Sérgio Mascarenhas de Oliveira
Mathematics[]
- Antonio Galves
- Djairo Guedes de Figueiredo
- Elon Lages Lima
- Imre Simon
- Jacob Palis Junior
- Jorge Manuel Sotomayor Tello
- Manfredo Perdigão do Carmo
- Marcelo Miranda Viana da Silva
- Maurício Matos Peixoto
- Paolo Piccione
- Welington Celso de Melo
Chemistry[]
- Angelo da Cunha Pinto
- Eloisa Biasotto Mano
- pt:José Manuel Riveros Nigra
- Manuel Mateus Ventura
- Otto Richard Gottlieb
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- Antonio Cândido de Mello e Souza
- Evaldo Cabral de Mello
- Jacques Marcovitch
- José Arthur Giannotti
- José Murilo de Carvalho
- Roberto Augusto DaMatta
- Simon Schwartzman
Technology[]
Foreign personalities[]
- Amartya Kumar Sen
- Brian Frederick Gilbert Johnson
- Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao
- Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Daniel Saul Goldin
- David Henry Peter Maybury-Lewis
- David Pierre Ruelle
- Dennis Sullivan
- Federico Mayor Zaragoza
- Ghillean Prance
- Harold Max Rosenberg
- Igor Saavedra
- Jacques Friedel
- Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
- John Norman Mather
- Jorge Allende
- Kenneth Maxwell
- Leon M. Lederman
- Liu Jiyuan
- Mário João de Oliveira Ruivo
- Mohamed H.A. Hassan
- Norman Ernest Borlaug
- Paul Alexander Schweitzer
- Phillip A. Griffiths
- Richard Darwin Keynes
- Rita Levi Montalcini
- Stephen Smale
- Terence Quinn
- Thomas Eugene Lovejoy
- Werner Arber
- William Sefton Fyfe
- Yakov Grigorevich Sinai
National personalities[]
- Adib Domingos Jatene
- Aécio Neves da Cunha
- Aldo Vieira da Rosa
- Antônio Ermírio de Moraes
- Celso Lafer
- Celso Luiz Nunes Amorim
- Cristovam Ricardo Cavalcanti Buarque
- Eduardo Henrique Accioly Campos
- Elcio Alvares
- Fábio Konder Comparato
- Fernando Haddad
- Fernando Henrique Cardoso
- Francisco Oswaldo Neves Dornelles
- Itamar Augusto Cautiero Franco
- Jorge Gerdau Johannpeter
- Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
- Marco Antonio de Oliveira Maciel
- Niède Guidon
- Oscar Niemeyer
- Paulo Nogueira Neto
- Pedro Sampaio Malan
- Ronaldo Mota Sardenberg
- Tarso Fernando Herz Genro
Commander[]
Agriculture[]
Biology[]
- Adelmar Faria Coimbra-Filho
- Fernando Garcia de Mello
- Jerson Lima Silva
- Lewis Joel Greene
- Lucia Mendonça Previato
- Marco Antonio Zago
- Maria Marques
- Sérgio Danilo Junho Pena
Engineering[]
- Antonio Luz Furtado
- Helio Waldman
- Liu Hsu
Earth Science[]
- Reinhardt Adolfo Fuck
- Wilson Teixeira
Physics[]
- Beatriz Leonor Silveira Barbuy
- Belita Koiller
- Constantino Tsallis
- Ernst Wolfgang Hamburger
Mathematics[]
- Alfredo Noel Iusem
- Antonio Galves
- Aron Simis
- Artur Oscar Lopes
- Celso José da Costa
- Chaim Samuel Hönig
- Keti Tenenblat
- Luiz Velho
- Marco Antonio Raupp
Chemistry[]
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- Boris Fausto
- Manuela Carneiro da Cunha
- Marilena de Souza Chaui
- Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro
- Renato Janine Ribeiro
- Ruth Corrêa Leite Cardoso
Technology[]
- Silvio Romero de Lemos Meira
Foreign personalities[]
- Munirathna Anandakrishnan
- Robert W. Corell
National personalities[]
Deceased[]
- Aristides Azevedo Pacheco Leão
- Carlos Chagas Filho
- Graziela Maciel Barroso
- Johanna Döbereiner
- José Márcio Corrêa Ayres
- Wilson Teixeira Beraldo
- Cesar Lattes
- José Leite Lopes
- Giuseppe Cilento
- José Moura Gonçalves
- Celso Monteiro Furtado
- Francisco Iglesias
- Mario Henrique Simonsen
- Casimiro Montenegro Filho
- Abdus Salam
- Henry Taube
- Juan José Giambiagi
- Michael Robert Herman
- René Thom
- Richard McGee Morse
- Shiing-Shen Chern
- William Donald Hamilton
- Carolina Martuscelli Bori
- José Reis
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Categories:
- Brazilian science and technology awards
- Orders, decorations, and medals of Brazil
- Recipients of the National Order of Scientific Merit (Brazil)
- 1993 establishments in Brazil
- Awards established in 1993