# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carlos-chagas-filho
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:54:27.172Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carlos-chagas-filho"
name: "Carlos Chagas Filho"
slug: "carlos-chagas-filho"
description: "Carlos Chagas Filho was a Brazilian physician, biologist and scientist active in the field of neuroscience. He was internationally renowned for his investigations on the neural mechanisms underlying the phenomenon of electrogenesis by the electroplaques of electric fishes. He was also an important scientific leader, being one of the founders of the Biophysics Institute of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and was also a president for 16 years of the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and president of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (1965–1967)."
tagline: "Brazilian physician and biologist (1910–2000)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Carlos_Chagas_Filho.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1910-09-12"
deathDate: "2000-02-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.86
  momentum:             5.184312922383781
  historical:           4.819332
  currentAttention:     26.31578947368422
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%87%D9%88"
    title: "كارلوس شاجاس فيلهو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Chagas_Filho"
    title: "Carlos Chagas Filho"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Chagas_Filho"
    title: "Carlos Chagas Filho"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Chagas_(hijo)"
    title: "Carlos Chagas (hijo)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Chagas_Filho"
    title: "Carlos Chagas Filho"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1042813"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump