Researchers & breeders (2)
- Alcides Carvalho — The Brazilian plant breeder who ran coffee research at the Instituto Agronômico de Campinas for four decades and is credited with the 1949 cross that became Catuaí — the man behind varieties almost nobody buying Brazilian coffee has heard of.
- Maria do Céu Silva — A Portuguese plant pathologist at CIFC in Oeiras whose work is on what happens inside a coffee leaf in the first hours after rust lands on it — one of the two names that recur across half a century of coffee rust research, and a person with no farm, no lot and no cupping score anywhere.