“Souls without shelter”: Ozório brother’s physiology laboratory and the debates on science and education in the First Republic

Abstract

The article presents the intellectual environment of production of the laboratory of experimental physiology of the Ozório brothers, seen as one of the meeting points of the Carioca intellectual elite in the first half of the 20th century. The Ozório brothers (Álvaro, Miguel and Branca) engaged, in the national context, in the debates about the enhancement of the scientific research raised by the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and the Brazilian Academy of Education. In addition, they also sought to establish close contact with scientists in other countries and ensured the recognition from his peers abroad of the scientific production carried out at the Brazilian laboratories. In this article, we analyze how Ozório brothers searched to improve the institutionalization of the physiological researches in Rio de Janeiro and the establishment of intellectual exchanges with the French academic environment in the 1920‘s.