Agustín Walfredo Castellanos Gonzalez, Cuban pediatrician and cardiologist (La Habana 12 September 1902 –Miami 07 December 2000)

From Chinese and Mexican descent

Authored 335 papers and monographs

Created intravenous angiocardiography or radio opaque angiography (1937)

With R. Pereira Valdés & A. Garcia López. La angio-cardiografia radio-opaca. Arch. Soc. Est. Clin. 523:31, 1937  

Performed the first retrograde dye injection into aorta (chest retrograde aortography) and developed an automatic apparatus for rapid injection of the dye

With R. Pereira Valdés & A. Garcia López. L’angiocardiographie chez l’enfant. Presse Med. 46:1474, 1938    

With R. Pereira developed lower and upper cavographies

Proposed quantified angiography (1939)

Described a new radiological sign for diagnosing aorta coarctation

With R. Pereira. Un nuevo signo radiológico indirecto en el diagnostico de la coarctación de  la aorta por la arteriografia retrograda superior (1946)

With Pereira Valdés introduced new technical terms

With R. Pereira & A.V. Pausa. On a special automatic device for angiocardiography. Bol. Soc. Cuban. Pediatr. 10:209, 1938

Introduced biplanar projections  

HONORS

Medicine & Physiology Nobel Prize nominee (1956, 1959 & 1960) 

His brother, Israel Castellanos Gonzalez, coroner, anthropologist, criminologist, psychiatrist and folklorist (La Habana 24 November 1891- Miami 09 January 1977)

Authored over 1,000 works

Created and named clinical dactiloscopy (1923)

Invented ganometer for measuring hand flexion

Improved anthropological/anthropometric devices

Un nuevo goniômetro planar (1915)

Coined the term podoscopy

Sobre una nueva variedad de foseta occipital. Vida Nueva 7(9):200-3, 1915 

Conceived the paraffin gauntlet (1937)

With R. Plasencia Maydagán. The paraffin gauntlet: new technique for the dermo-nitrate test. J. Crim. L. Criminol. Pol. Sci. Sec. 32(4):465-7, 1941

SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY

Estigmas atavicos em dermopapiloscopia (1955)

La identificación dactiloscopica de los cadaveres (1935)

El pelo de las razas de Cuba (1929)

Los estigmas somaticos de la degeneración. Su apreciación en las razas de color (1927)

Fundamentos para una química criminológica (1916)

Sobre las diversas formas de la sutura naso-frontal (1915)

Anomalias dentarias en el loco, en el criminal y en el normal. Gac. Med. Sur 32:289-92, 1914

Las bocas simiescas (1914)

La mandibula del criminal (1914)

Anomalia atávica en el occipital de un criminal cubano. Vida Nueva 6(9):225, 1914

Estudio antropologico del maxilar

HONORS

Lombroso Medal