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José Reis

DOENÇAS DE AVES E DIVULGAÇÃO CIENTÍFICA

No Instituto Biológico, Lilly trabalhou principalmente com José Reis, autor de inúmeras publicações de divulgação sobre doenças de aves e que se tornou referência no País no campo da divulgação científica.

During the years she contributed to Instituto Biológico, from 1931 to 1935, Lilly made illustrations and photomicrographies mainly for the research in bird diseases carried out by José Reis in the Avian Pathology Department. José Reis was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1907 and studied Medicine in the federal capital at the time. He took a specialization course at Manguinhos, directed by Oswaldo Cruz, and in 1929 got an invitation to work in São Paulo in Instituto Biológico’s Animal Division.

José Reis published books about avian diseases and wrote countless brochures of scientific dissemination to breeders in the State of São Paulo. Instituto Biológico published around 80 brochures on diseases and pests in plants, birds, cattle, rabbits and others until 1940. José Reis expanded his scientific dissemination work in the 40s and began writing for daily newspapers such as the Estado de S. Paulo and Folha de S. Paulo (a collaboration, which began in 1947, still while in Folha da Noite, and lasted until his death in 2002). He was editor-in-chief in the 60s. José Reis also wrote for agricultural journals such as Chácaras e Quintais and O Campo, children’s books and for a weekly program in the former Rádio Excelsior about scientific dissemination in the form of theatrical stories.

José Reis became one of the most important science promoters in the country and was awarded the Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science given by UNESCO in 1974 and the John R. Reitmeyer Prize by the Pan-American Union and the International American Press Association. For his work, the National Council for the Development of Science and Technology (CNPq) instituted, in 1979, the José Reis Prize for Scientific Promotion in three categories: “Science Journalism”, “Science Promotion” and “Institution”.

Lilly Ebstein Lowenstein (1897-1966) viveu entre a ciência e a arte, desenhando e realizando fotografias nos campos da medicina e da zoologia. Em seu trabalho, Lilly conjugava o conhecimento técnico da fotografia e do desenho, o estudo das ciências e um notável talento estético. Nascida na Alemanha, ela estudou na Escola Lette-Verein em Berlim entre 1911 e 1914. Em 1925 imigrou com o marido e dois filhos para São Paulo. Em 1926, tornou-se desenhista e fotomicrógrafa da Seção de Desenho e Fotografia na Faculdade de Medicina (USP, a partir de 1934), da qual seria chefe por trinta anos a partir 1932. Entre 1930 e 1935 Lilly foi colaboradora do Instituto Biológico de Defesa Agrícola e Animal, principalmente da sua Seção de Ornitopatologia. Uma vida com arte dedicada à pesquisa e difusão da ciência.