Vela (born 1952), Ph.D, NASA astronaut José Goldemberg (born 1928),physicist,university educator, scientific leader and research scientist, He is a leading expert on energy and environment issues Carlos I. Noriega (born 1959), NASA astronaut Antonia Novello (born 1944), 14th Surgeon General of the United States Álvaro Alvim (1863–1928) was a physician, pioneer in radiology and radiotherapy Manuel Elkin Patarroyo (born 1947), pathologist, vaccines specialist Feniosky Peña-Mora (born 1966), engineer and educator Newton da Costa (born 1929),mathematician, logician, and philosopher,recognised for his works in paraconsistent logic Felipe Poey (1799–1891), zoologist, specialist in ichthyology Francisco João de Azevedo (1814–1880),inventor,best known for his invention of Typewriter Eduardo H. Rapoport (1927–2017), ecologist, biogeographer L. Rafael Reif (born 1950), engineer, president of MIT Peter Wilhelm Lund (1801–1880) ,He was the first to describe dozens of species of pre-historic Pleistocene megafauna, including the fabled Saber-toothed cat Smilodon populator. He also made the then ground-breaking discovery that humans co-existed with the long-extinct animal species Andrés Manuel del Río (1764–1849), geologist, chemist Maurício Rocha e Silva (1910–1983),physician and pharmacologist, discovered bradykinin, an active cardiovascular peptide Helen Rodríguez Trías (1929–2001), pediatrician, early advocate for women's reproductive rights Artur Avila (born 1979) is a Brazilian mathematician,He is one of the winners of the 2014 Fields Medal,being the first Latin American and lusophone to win such an award. Wilfredo Santa-Gómez (born 1949), psychiatrist José Santana (economist) (born 1962), specialist in technology and development Sarah Stewart (cancer researcher) (1905–1976), microbiologist, discovered Polyomavirus Henrique da Rocha Lima (1879–1956), physician, pathologist and infectologist,discovered Rickettsia prowazekii, the pathogen of epidemic typhus Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez (born 1942), USSR Space Program cosmonaut Diltor Opromolla (1934-2004),Was a physician and dermatologist respected due to his lifetime work with leprosy patients and leprosy research,Among other things, he was the first to introduce rifamycin in the treatment of leprosy, in 1963 Francisco Varela (1946–2001), biologist, co-author of the theory of autopoiesis Oscar Sala (1922–2010),nuclear physicist and important scientific leader Lydia Villa-Komaroff (born 1947), biologist, early Mexican American PhD in the sciences Hilário de Gouvêa (1843-1929),ophthalmologist,noted for being the first person to document a case of hereditary cancer,The cause of the recessive familial retinoblastoma he described was later further investigated and resulted in the first reported example of a tumor suppressor gene, RB. Klaus von Storch (born 1962), aerospace engineer Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873–1932), early aviation inventor Marcos Pontes (born 1963), first AEB/NASA astronaut César Lattes (1924–2005), experimental physicist,one of the discoverers of the