Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência
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Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência | |
Abbreviation | SBPC |
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Formation | 8 July 1948 |
Type | Nonprofit |
Location | |
Official language | Portuguese |
President | Renato Janine Ribeiro |
Website | portal |
Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência (Portuguese for Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science) is a Brazilian
The first president was Prof. Jorge Americano, and among the founders there were important scientific personalities of the country, such as Paulo Sawaya, José Reis, Maurício Rocha e Silva, Gastão Rosenfeld and José Ribeiro do Vale, Otto Guilherme Bier, Henrique da Rocha Lima, Alberto Carvalho da Silva, Helena Nader and others.
The Society has individual members as well as other Brazilian scientific societies and associations which can become affiliate to SBPC. The current president is Dr. Ennio Candotti, a physicist. Honour presidents are Aziz Ab'Sáber, Crodowaldo Pavan, José Goldemberg, José Leite Lopes, Oscar Sala, Ricardo de Carvalho Ferreira, Sérgio Henrique Ferreira and Warwick Estevam Kerr.
SBPC's first flagship publication was
The greatest endeavour of SBPC has been the organization of yearly scientific conferences at national and regional level, since its year of birth, and without interruption. In the 1970s, during the oppression of
Another significant publications are Jornal da Ciência (Science Newspaper), a daily news email service, site and printed publication; and ComCiência, an on-line scientific journalism review, edited by the Laboratory of Advanced Studies of Journalism (Labjor) of the State University of Campinas.
SBPC has spawned a number of initiatives with the objective of popularizing science and serving science education. One of them is the Instituto Ciência Hoje (Science Today Institute), a not-for-profit non-governmental organization of public interest. ICH publishes Ciência Hoje magazine since 1982, Ciência Hoje das Crianças (Children's Science Today) since 1986, and a series of complementary didactic books for schools titled Ciência Hoje na Escola (Science Today at the School) since 1996. Since 1997, the Institute also maintains an Internet site, "Ciência Hoje On-line".
Bibliography
- Fernandes, A.M. A construção da ciência no Brasil e a SBPC: Editora da UnB/CNPq/ANPOCS., Brasília, 1990. (In Portuguese)
External links
- SBPC Home Page. Official site.
- Ciência e Cultura. Official scientific journal.
- Jornal da Ciência. Daily science news bulletin.
- Com Ciência. On-line scientific journalism review.
- Ciência Hoje, a magazine with articles, current issues and news on science (very much like Scientific American)
- Ciência Hoje On-Line. A Web site devoted to the popularization of science.
- Ciência Hoje para Crianças. a magazine with science subjects for school-age children and adolescents.
See also
- Brazilian science and technology