Background
Irajá Damiani Pinto was born in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on July 3, 1919.
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Iraja Damiani Pinto
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He studied Ginásio Nossa Senhora do Rosário. Attended the 2nd grade at Colégio Universitário Estadual Julio de Castilhos.
Career
In 1942, he began his studies of Natural History in the Faculty of Philosophy of the then University of Porto Alegre. He graduated Bachelor in 1944. That year he participated in his first scientific excursion led by Doctor Llewellyn Ivor Price, who contributed much to his scientific orientation.
In 1957 he helped create the course in geology of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, one of the first in Brazil.
Achievements
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In 1945, even as a student in the undergraduate course, was hired as Assistant Chair of Geology and Paleontology. In 1945 he carried out the DNPM, in Rio de Janeiro, with Doctor Paul Ericksen de Oliveira and directed by Doctor Llewellyn Ivor Price, and began the library of Geology and Paleontology at the University. The genus of cynodont Irajatherium is in his honor, in addition to the Museum of Paleontology Irajá Damiani Pinto.
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Brazil