Juan Pedro Baigorri Velar, Argentine engineer and geophysicist (Concepción del Uruguay, Entre Ríos Province 1891 – Buenos Aires 24 March 1972)

Invented the pluviógeno, a rainmaking apparatus (1926-38) with worldwide repercussion 

José Antonio Balseiro Lahore, Argentine nuclear physicist (Cordoba 26 March 1919 – Bariloche, Rio Negro Province 26 March 1962) países

From Spanish father and French-descent mother

Father of physicist Carlos Antonio Balseiro

Authored a work about optical properties of blood plasma that received comments in a bibliographic note of Nature

With Antonio E. Rodríguez. The absorption spectrum of blood plasma and its stability with various agents. Publ. Fac. Cien. Fis. Mat. La Plata 3:77-91, 1944

With D. Canals Frau. Un fenômeno de fluctuaciones en la radiación. Ciencia e Investigación 2:444, 1946

SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY

Formulación covariante de la electrodinamica cuantica. Rev. Unión Mat. Arg. 18(2), 1957

Descripción cuantica de trenes de onda. Rev. Unión Mat. Arg. 18(2), 1957

Acerca de una transformación canonica del campo de radiación. Rev. Unión Mat. Arg. 13

Angular momentum of photons. Rev. Unión Mat. Arg. 12:153-67 & 209-24

Transformation theory applied to a radiation field. Phys. Rev. 73(11):1346-8, 1948

Problemas sobre la teoria de los campos, vibraciones de moléculas en cristales y sobre fenómenos de transporte

Propagación de ondas electromagneticas en la guia axial excentrica

Impulso angular del campo de radiación

HONORS

Minor planet 6109 Balseiro  

Juan Antonio Bussolini, Argentine astrophysicist and jesuit (Chivilcoy, Buenos Aires Province 1905 – San Miguel, Buenos Aires Province 10 September 1966) 

Honored in asteroid 2490 Bussolini  

León Elkin, Jewish Argentine surgeon (1898 – 1969)

CREATED

Equipment for indirect laryngoscopy

Apparatus and method for press vocal chords  

José Mario Fallotico, Argentine citizen (San Vicente, Santa Fe Province 10 October 1897 – Buenos Aires 07 June 1962)

Invented a staff for blind ones (1921) before US George Benham

Julio Hirschhorn Grinstein, Jewish Argentine agronomist (Colón, Entre Ríos Province 21 June 1895 – ?)

Brother of mycologist and plant pathologist Elisa Hirschhorn

Developed new rice cultivars such as Chacarero (1935)

HONORS

Juliohirschhornia Hirschhorn 1986 (Fungi) 

Hebe Dina Gay Cocucci, Argentine mineralogist (Rio Cuarto, Cordoba Province 26 January 1927 – Cordoba 25 June 2018)

From Italian descent

With Demartin, Gramaccioli & Pilati codescribed the mineral species benyacarite (1990; described in 1997)

With T. Pilati, C. Gramaccioli & F. Demartin. A structural model for the minerals of the Paulkerrite group (1991)

Honored in mineral species gayite Kampf, Colombo & Gonzalez del Tanago 2010    

Ignacio Lucio Imaz Apphatie, Argentine physician 

With Emilio Lorentz improved the Ghedini procedure for serum diagnosis of echinococcosis (1908)

Developed a new diagnostic method for showing the blood incompatibility in transfusion 

Juan (Ivan) Jagsich, Croatian-born Argentine geodesist and meteorologist (Oslip, Burgenland 28 April 1886 – Gualeguay, Cordoba 03 April 1956)

Aauthored over 70 works of which Meteorologia Fisica (1954)

Eponym of Jagsich method for joined determination of geographical coordinates (1955) and Jagsich formulae 

Luis Miguel Japas, Argentine surgeon (1925 – August 2000)

Authored over 100 works

With L.M. Japas. Un signo clínico de displasia rotuliana. Rev. Asoc. Arg. Ortop. Traum. 58(4):500-1, 1993 

Eponym of Japas osteotomy or procedure

RELEVANT PAPERS

With C.E. Ottolenghi. Fractures latérales du col du fémur, varieté extradigitale. Rev. Chir. Ortop. 50:389-98, 1964

Surgical treatment of pes cavus by tarsal V-osteotomy. J. Bone Joint Surgery 50ª:927-44, 1968

With F. de Schant. La biopsie par ponction et aspiration du corps vertebral dorsal. Rev. Chir. Ortop. 56:763-70, 1970

Francisco Martín Jauregui, Argentine physician (Buenos Aires 04 July 1876 – Buenos Aires 1961) 

Gained international recognition for his studies on yellow fever and syphilis

Authored the book La fievre jaune (1911)

With Luis Lancelotti proposed the syphilis serumtherapy (1924)

Worked joined to famous names like Paul Ehrlich and Elie Metchnikoff

Correspondent Member, Societé Zoologique de France 

Juan Mazar Barnett, Argentine ornithologist (Buenos Aires March 1975 – Buenos Aires 20 November 2012) 

Authored 51 works of many types (papers, books, monographs, records) about behaviour, ecology and biogeography of birds

He was involved in the description of new bird species

With D. Buzzetti discovered three species possibly new to science in Brazilian Northeast lands leading to discovery and description of Cichlocolaptes mazarbarnetti 2014

HONORS

Mazaria Claramunt 2014 (Aves)

Juan José Nissen, Argentine astronomer (Paraná, Entre Rios Province 31 May 1901 – San Juan 09 June 1978) 

From German descent

SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY

Observatorio de Cordoba. Memoria correspondiente al año 1939. Rev. Astron. 12(1), 1939

Las novae. Rev. Astron. (1935)

Vörläufige Orter des Eros. Astron. Nachr. 256(16), 1935

With J. Bobone. Resultados de 277 placas del asteroide Eros, tomadas de enero a mayo de 1931

HONORS

2124 Nissen (Minor planet)   

Atanasio Quiroga, Argentine chemist (San Juan 17 June 1853 – Buenos Aires 14 August 1916)

Invented devices for analysing and extraction of gases

El tasímetro. Doctoral Thesis (1888)

Extractor baro-termico (nuevo aparato para extraer los gases de sus soluciones especialmente de las aguas) 1910

Elsa Maria Gutierrez de Rodríguez Pardina, Argentine astronomer (1921 – ?) 

Expert on celestial mechanics

Honored in 4914 Pardina (asteroid)  

Wenceslao Tejerina Fotheringham, Argentine surgeon and clinical pathologist (Rio Cuarto, Cordoba Province 02 June 1901 – Rosario 1985)

From British ancestry

Eponym of Tejerina Fotheringham sign in appendicitis

José Pedro Uslenghi Pella, Argentine radiologist (Carmen de Areco, Buenos Aires Province 03 August 1890 – 12 July 1958) 

Nueva tecnica para la investigación radiologica de las glândulas salivales. Sem. Med. 41:27, 1925

Normas generales para el examen y la interpretación radiologica de la tuberculosis pulmonar. Arch. Tisiol. 9:6-13, 1933

Martín Vince, Argentine lab technician (fl.1962)

Participated in discovery and study of Saltsaurus loricatus (1975-7)

Co-described the genus Mussaurus 1979 with Bonaparte (Fossil Reptilia)

Honored in genus Vincelestes Bonaparte 1986 (Fossil Mammalia)