Graduated as Electronical Engineeer, at the University of São Paulo (1972) and Ph.D in History, University of São Paulo (1994). He received a scholarship of the Krupp and Humboldt Foundations (Germany), was Resident Scholar at the Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C.) in 2003, and Fellow of the Chemical Heritage Foundation (Philadelphia, USA) in 2013. He is currently Full Professor, Department of History at the University of São Paulo, and a collaborating professor at ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, and joined the Universty of Lisbon (Center for the Philosophy of Science) in 2004. An expert in History of Science and Technology, he works mainly on the following subjects: history of science and technology ,history of electricity in Brazil, epistemology, scientific public communication, history of science & technology policies. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Continuing my doctoral research about the institutionalization of pharmacy in Brazil in the 19th century, this project aims to inventory the pharmaceutical literature available to the instruction of students and pharmacy professionals in the country, since the establishment of the chair of clinical, theoretical and practical medicine at the Anatomical, Surgical and Medical School of Rio d…
The formation of the holding Brazilian Traction in 1912, headquartered in Toronto, Canada, brought together under the same administration the two foreign companies greater financial sucess in Brazil at that time, the São Paulo Tramway, Light and Power Company and the Rio de Janeiro Tramway, Light and Power Company. Besides these two, well-known, it would be managed by holding a third, fou…
This work aims, from the indexation of photographs produced by field research, expand the conceptual map and the theoretical framework of the Electric Power Controlled Vocabulary in the industrial heritage category in order to represent and retrieve information related to the industrial heritage of the electricity sector Sao Paulo currently dispersed
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As a result of one of the aspects of the postdoctoral research Pharmaceutical education in 19th century Brazil (nº 2022/06767-0), this research internship abroad aims to examine the Portuguese medical-pharmaceutical literature that was used by students of pharmacy in Brazil, mainly until the middle of the 19th century. The idea, therefore, is to investigate this set of documents, which ar…
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