The Most Famous
ASTRONOMERS from Brazil
This page contains a list of the greatest Brazilian Astronomers. The pantheon dataset contains 644 Astronomers, 1 of which were born in Brazil. This makes Brazil the birth place of the 58th most number of Astronomers behind Romania, and Chile.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Brazilian Astronomers of all time. This list of famous Brazilian Astronomers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Rosaly Lopes (b. 1957)
With an HPI of 51.93, Rosaly Lopes is the most famous Brazilian Astronomer. Her biography has been translated into 24 different languages on wikipedia.
Rosaly M. C. Lopes (born January 8, 1957) is a planetary geologist, volcanologist, an author of numerous scientific papers and several books, as well as a proponent of education. Her major research interests are in planetary and terrestrial surface processes with an emphasis on volcanology.
2. Paulo R. Holvorcem (b. 1967)
With an HPI of 43.97, Paulo R. Holvorcem is the 2nd most famous Brazilian Astronomer. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Paulo Renato Centeno Holvorcem (born 10 July 1967) is a Brazilian amateur astronomer and mathematician who lives in Brasília, Brazil. He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids. He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery or co-discovery (with Charles W. Juels) of about 197 minor planets between 1998 and 2010. Holvorcem with Juels also discovered two comets: C/2002 Y1 (Juels-Holvorcem) and C/2005 N1 (Juels-Holvorcem). Holvorcem was also involved in the discovery of C/2011 K1 (Schwartz-Holvorcem). The main-belt asteroid 13421 Holvorcem was named after him on 9 January 2001 (M.P.C. 41939). Paulo's SkySift pipeline software is used by many observatories across the world for the detection of minor planets and transients.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Brazilian astronomers born between 1957 and 1967. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Brazilian astronomers include Rosaly Lopes, and Paulo R. Holvorcem. As of April 2024, 1 new Brazilian astronomers have been added to Pantheon including Paulo R. Holvorcem.
