Background
OSÓRIO DE ALMEIDA, Miguel was born on September 1, 1890 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
OSÓRIO DE ALMEIDA, Miguel was born on September 1, 1890 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Educated Colégio Kopke, Colégio Alfredo Gomes.
Professor; professor, of philosophy of science, 1935, pres, of the university, 1935. Assistant, commissioner of hygiene and public welfare, 1913-1917. Professor, of physiology, Escola Superior de Agricultura e Medicina Veterinária, 1917-1934.
Assistant, Institute Oswaldo Cruz, 1919-1921, director of its physiology laboratory since 1927. Director, institute of animal biology, ministry of agriculture, 1933-1934. Director general, national bureau of health and medicosocial welfare, 1934-1935.
President, Brazilian Committee of Intellectual Co-operation of League of Nations. Honorary professor., University de Montevideo and school of science, University de Paris. Brazilian representative on UNESCO, since 1947.
Officer, Légion d’Honneur, France. Commander, German Red Cross. Einstein prize, from Academy Brasileira de Ciências.
Sicard prize, Paris. J. Gabriel Osorio de Almeida and Carlota Cardoso.
Member: Academy Brasileira de Ciencias (ex-president), Academy Brasileira de Letras, Society de Medicina e Cirurgia, Society de Biología, Society Brasileira de Química, Society Brasileira de Neurología, Psiquiatría e Medicina Legal. Member Société de Biologie (Paris), Society Argentina de Biología, Association des Physiologistes de Langue Française, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society for Exptl. Biology, American Psychiatrie Association, Société de Psychologie (Paris).