Uma perspectiva histórica da divulgação científica: a atuação do cientista divulgador José Reis(1948-1958)
In Brazil, the appearance of an own scientific popularization links with the scientific production in the country, evidencing a mobilization and the scientific community's interest in disclosing its activities for a not specialized public, in order to also obtain the recognition of the society. Partly, the action of disclosing science interferes in the internal discussions to the scientific community on its social and political role, involved close to in a wider political-social project of recognition and validation of the science society. The general objective of that work is to identify the entail of the popularization of the science to the scientific practice, to the education, to the politics, to the general conditions of the institucionalizion and of the professionalization of the science, in order to arrive to a wider characterization of the popularization practiced in Brazil in it powders II war. In that context, we highlighted the trajectory of the scientist-divulgator: Jose Reis, in the period of 1948-1958. That researcher and indefatigable divulgator of the science participated in the movement of the scientific community's implantation, of the fight for the institucionalizion of the science and of the education for everybody. Starting from its professional and political trajectory he/she stands out the scientist's social paper, particularizing the science to service of the social reform. He/she is justified to analyze Jose Reis' participation in that process of constitution of the scientific popularization in Brazil, because its performance, as scientist that was devoted to the scientific popularization, was consistent, coherent and uninterrupted for 60 years and it evidences that way she was constituted in visibility instrument and of legitimacy of the science.