Gerhard Sohnge
Adolf Paul Gerhard Söhnge, South African geologist (Saron, Tulbagh District, Western Cape Province 10 November 1913 – 14 July 2006) From German parents DESCRIBED MINERAL SPECIES With H. Strunz & B.H. Geier. Stottit, ein neues mineral-germanium, und seine paragenese in Tsumeb. Neues Jahr. Miner. Monats. (1958) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With J.N. Theron. Table Mountain: geology and erosional development of a unique coastal mountain range (1994) With C.J.B. Dreyer. Crocidolite and amosite deposits of the Republics of South Africa and Bophuthatswana. Geol. Survey Pretoria (1992) Tsumeb: a historical sketch (1967) With T.W. Gevers. Geology along the northwestern margin of the Khomas Highlands between Otjumbingwe-Karibib and Okahandja, South West Africa. Trans. Proceed. Geol. Soc. South Africa 66:199-58, 1963 With J. de Villiers. The Geology of Richtersveld. Geol. Survey Memoir 48 (1959) The environment of copper deposits in South West Africa. CCTA Publ. 44:231-48, 1958 Pipe-like massive-sulphide ore body appears to fill volcanic pipe in depth. Mining World 14:22-5, 1952 Paragenesis of the Khan pegmatite, South West Africa. Trans. Geol. Soc. S. Afr. 42:23-34, 1939 With D.J. Visser & C. Van Riet Lowe. The geology and Archaeology of the Vaal River Basin. Geol. Memoir Govt. Pretoria 35 (1937) HONORS Sohngeite Strunz 1965 (Mineral)
George Alfredo Seiglie
George Alfredo Seiglie Aguayo, Puerto Rican/Cuban micropaleontologist (La Habana Province 26 February 1926 – Texas, USA 26 July 1988) Authored over 100 articles DESCRIBED FOSSIL FORAMINIFERA TAXA Families Alveovalvulinidae 1986 with Fleisher & Baker Buliminoididae 1970 Duquepsammidae 1987 Ponceamminidae 1991 Ungulatellidae 1964 Genera & Subgenera Altasterella 1965 Ammoanita 1987 with Baker Asterigerinita 1966 with Bermudez Asterotrochammina 1963 with Bermudez Ayalaina 1960 Bermudezita 1960 Biasterigerina 1965 with Bermudez Claudostriatella 1965 with Bermudez Corrugatella 1965 with Bermudez Cycloputeolina 1977 with Grove Discomuralina 1964 Duquepsammia 1987 with Baker Eoeponidella 1965 Fastigiella 1965 with Bermudez Glabratellina 1965 with Bermudez Glaucoammina 1969 with Bermudez Heronallenita 1965 with Bermudez Longiapertina 1966 with Bermudez Miosorites 1977 with Grove Neoglabratella 1965 with Bermudez Neopateoris 1963 with Bermudez Nubeculinita 1964 Orectostomina 1965 Pannellaina 1976 with Bermudez Parasorites 1977 with Rivera Parkiella 1993 with Haman & Baker Pavopsammia 1983 with Baker Planoglabratella 1965 with Bermudez Polysiphoperocha 1964 Polystomammina 1965 Ponceammina 1991 Rectomassilina 1964 Reichelinella 1966 with Bermudez Riveroinella 1967 with Bermudez Rugidia 1965 Sidebottomina 1964 Sigmoilinita 1965 Siphonidia 1965 Spiropsammia 1983 with Baker Stebloides 1963 Tetrataxiella 1964 Ungulatelloides 1964 Yaucorotalia 1972 HONORS Seiglieina Sellier de Civrieux 1991 (Fossil Foraminifera)
Genaro Sisto
Genaro Sisto Pallaert, Argentine pediatrician and hygienist (Ayacucho, Buenos Aires Province 02 February 1870 – 23 August 1923) From Italian father Described Sisto sign (constant aphonic crying as a sign of congenital syphilis in infancy) Heredo-Syphilitic Cry. Ann. Med. Chr. (1909) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Contribución al estudio de la poliomielitis anterior aguda (1895) Las inyecciones epidurales como tratamiento de la enuresis o incontinencia esencial de orina: uretrocistitis blenorragica en un niño de 10 años tratado por la urotropina (1906) Conferences de pathologie infantile (1910) Les cris chez le nourissons et la syphilis hereditaire (1910) Cerebrospinal fluid in syphilitic and hereditary syphilis. Ann. Med. Chir. Infant. 2, 1910 Hygiene scolaire (1911) La acción preventiva y curativa em la lucha antituberculosa. Arch. Espan. Pediat. 11, 1919 Um nuevo caso de llanto sifilitico Profilaxis de las enfermedades infecto-contagiosas en el medio escolar HONORS Prix Perron, Academie de Medecine de Paris (1910) Gold Medal, Exposition of Social Hygiene, Rome (1912)
Gabriel Soares de Sousa
Gabriel Soares de Sousa, Portuguese-born Brazilian chronist and sertanist (Lisboa c.1540 – Bahia Province 1592) Authored Tratado Descriptivo do Brasil or Descriptive Treatise of Brazil (1587) which displays an encyclopedic character. Published only in 1851 Performed a detailed description of Brazilian flora and fauna Suggested that flies could transmit certain diseases later confirmed by Castellani (1907) Described diseases like tungiasis Identified yaws or frambesia before Piso First to describe maculo or epidemic gangrenous proctitis Gave the first report about the transmission of a infectious disease (yaws) by an insect Established the notion of contagiousness into a disease First to describe the role that play Tabanid dipterans as bloodsucking agents for man and animals and human myiasis in the dog Gave reports about morphological features of birds First to report opilação (hookworm disease) Reported helminth larvae parasitizing fishes First to report the presence of Argulidae crustaceans in fishes
Fuad Amin Sabra
Fuad Amin Sabra, Lebanese neuropsychiatrist (Beirut 13 February 1919 – 27 April 2005) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With A.K. Afifi. Treatment of toxic and drug induced neuropathies. Modern Treatment 5(6):1236, 1968 With H.A. Reimann. Hereditary spastic paraplegia (primary lateral sclerosis): a report of three cases in a family. Middle East Med. J. 1:75-8, 1962 Observations on one hundred cases of cerebral angioma. J. Am. Med. Ass. 170(13):1522-4, 1959 Withn H. Zellweger & Y. Green. The clinical diagnosis of inclusion body encephalitis (Dawson). Helv. Paediat. Acta 13(1):81-7, 1958 HONOURS Honorary Member, American ECG Society (1950) Visiting Lecturer, Harvard University (1963) Visiting Professor of Neurology, Johns Hopkins Medical School (1968) & Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh (1969) President, Section of Neurology, International Congress of Neurology (1969) Invited to contribute chapters to Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine (6th to 9th editions)
Friedrich Sellow
Friedrich Sellow or Sello, German naturalist and etnographer in Brazil (Potsdam 12 March 1789 – Belo Oriente, Minas Gerais State October 1831) Collected thousands of specimens among plants, seeds, wood samples, mammals, birds, mollusks, amphibians, fishes, worms, insects, shells, skins, bird nests, bird eggs, skeletons, anatomical pieces, cranes, rocks, minerals, ethnographic drawings and indigenous artifacts sent to German institutions DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE SPECIES Bignonia bellas Philodendron hastatum Salvia splendens HONORS (Plantae) Selloa Kunth 1818 (Asteraceae) Sellocharis Taubert 1889 (Fabaceae) Friedsellowia Lowe, Coiffard, Mohr & Bernardes de Oliveira 2013 (Fossil)