Antonio Lima-de-Faria (1921) is Professor Emeritus of Molecular Cytogenetics at Lund University, Lund, Sweden. After editing the Handbook of Molecular Cytology (1969), Antonio Lima-de-Faria wrote Molecular Evolution and Organization of the Chromosome (1983) and Evolution without Selection. Form and Function by Autoevolution (1988). This last book was translated into Russian, Japanese and Italian. Later he wrote Biological Periodicity. Its Molecular Mechanism and Evolutionary Implications (1995, translated into Japanese) and One Hundred Years of Chromosome Research and what Remains to be Learned (2003). Subsequently appeared Praise of Chromosome "Folly." Confessions of an Untamed Molecular Structure (2008, translated into Russian), Molecular Geometry of Body Pattern in Birds (2012) and Molecular Origins of Brain and Body Geometry (2014). Recently appeared Periodic Tables Unifying Living Organisms at the Molecular Level. The Predictive Power of the Law of Periodicity (2017), which was praised, by American and English colleagues, as a
"wonderful and pioneering work." His work in molecular biology has won him, among other honors, the decoration Knight of the Order of the North Star by the Swedish King and Great Official of the Order of Santiago by Portugal's President. He is member of Five scientific academies.