Changxu Shi
Changxu Shi, Chinese metallurgist and materials scientist (Xushui District, Hebei Province 15 November 1920 – Beijing 10 November 2014) Authored over 300 papers Established Fe-Mn-Ar and Cr-Mn-N steel systems With M.Z. Cao, X.J. Wan & S.J. Gao. A new analysis of hydrogen diffusion in metals with trapping. J. Mater. Sci. Tecnol. 5(4):247-53, 1989 DEVELOPED First iron-nickel base superalloy Hot corrosion resistant casting nickel-base superalloy Technology of low segregation superalloy With G.X. Sui, B. Zhou & Z.G. Zheng. Vinylon-reinforced aluminium laminate or Virall, a new superhybrid composite material (1993) HONOURS 28468 Shichangxu (Asteroid) Innovations in Real Materials Award, International Union of Materials Research (1997)
Cezar Martins de Sa
Cezar Martins de Sá, Brazilian molecular geneticist (1948 – Brasilia 25 January 2011) Co-discovered the prosome, a small RNP complex With H.P. Schmid, O. Akhayat, F. Puvion, K. Koehler & K. Scherrer. The prosome: an ubiquitous morphological distinct RNP particle associated with repressed mRNPs and containing specific ScRNA and a characteristic set of proteins. EMBO J. 3(1):29-34, 1984 With H.P. Schmid, A. Horsch, K. Scherrer, F. Broders, O. Akhayat & M.F. Grossi de Sá. Prosomes. Ubiquity and inter-species structural variation. J. Mol. Biol. 187(4):479-93, 1986 With M.F. Grossi de Sá, O. Akhayat, F. Broders & K. Scherrer isolated the prosomes from the cytoplasm (1986) Found the prosomes in the nucleus With M.F. Grossi de Sá, F. Harier, O. Coux, O. Akhayat, J.K. Pal, Y. Florentin & K. Scherrer. Cytolocalization of prosomes as a function of differentiation. J. Cell Sci. 89(2):151-65, 1988 With O. Akhayat, A.A. Infante, D. Infante, M. F. Grossi de Sá & K. Scherrer. A new type of prosome like-particle, composed of small cytoplasmic RNA and multimers of a 21kDa protein, inhibits protein synthesis in vitro. Eur. J. Biochem. 170(1-2):23-33, 1987 With E.O. Melo, R. Dhalia, N. Standard & O.P. de Melo Neto. Identification of a C-terminal poly(A)-binding protein (PABP)-PABP interaction domain: role in cooperative binding to poly(A) and efficient cap distal translational repression. J. Biol. Chem. 278(47):46357-68, 2003 With A.O. Ericsson, L.O. Faria, W.B. Cruz & B.D. Lima. TcZFP8, a novel member of the Trypanosoma cruzi, CCHC zinc finger protein family with nuclear localization. Genet. Mol. Res. 5(3):553-63, 2006 With M.F. Grossi de Sá, M.A. Veronese, S. Astolfi Filho & E. Gander co-described Crithidia brasiliensis (1980)
Carola Sutton
Carola Ana Sutton de Licitra, Argentine helminthologist and parasitologist (Buenos Aires 24 April 1946 – La Plata 09 April 2000) DESCRIBED NEMATODA/TREMATODA TAXA Genera Guerrerostrongylus 1991 with Durette-Desset Lagostonema 1987 with Durette-Desset Malvinema 2003 with Digiani & Durette-Desset Nematomystes 1980 with Chabaud & Durette-Desset Pseudoquinqueserialis 1981 Tapironema 1997 with Chabaud & Durette-Desset Trichofreitasia 1991 with Durette-Desset Species Enterobius yagoi 1979 Graphidioides kravetzi 1995 with Durette-Desset Guerrerostrongylus uruguayensis 1991 Durette-Desset Echinostoma platensis 1994 with Lunaschi Heteroxynema viscaciaea 1989 with Hugot Lagostonema ecasiense 1987 with Durette-Desset Malvinema carolinae 2003 with Digiani & Durette-Desset Malvinema frederici 2003 with Digiani & Durette-Desset Malvinema victoriae 2003 with Digiani & Durette-Desset Nematomystes rodentiphilus 1980 Physaloptera calnuensis 1989 Pseudoquinqueserialis caviae 1981 Rictularia massoiai 1979 Stilestrongylus aureus 1985 with Durette-Desset Stilestrongylus azarai 1985 with Durette-Desset Stilestrongylus flavescens 1991 with Durette-Desset Stilestrongylus oryzomysi 1991 with Durette-Desset Syphacia oryzomae 1978 Tapironema coronatum 1997 with Chabaud & Durette-Desset Taxorchis ringueleti 1975 Trichofreitasia lenti 1991 with Durette-Desset Wellcomia dolichotis 1987 with Hugot Zonorchis oxymycterae 1983 HONORS (Nematoda) Caroloxyuris Jimenez-Ruiz & Gardner 2003 Suttonema Digiani & Durette-Desset 2003
Carlos Stuardo Ortiz
Carlos Stuardo Ortiz, Chilean entomologist (Yungay, Nuble Province 02 December 1895 – Santiago 15 August 1962) DESCRIBED DIPTERA TAXA Genera Aneriophora 1952 with Cortés Pritchardia 1946 Species Celidosphenella poecilla 1946 Hemipenthes edwardsi 1946 Hephaestion iopterus 1935 Hirmoneura orellanae 1936 Hirmoneura silvae 1936 Hyrmophlaeba ruizi 1936 Microplophorus magellanicus 1935 with Ruiz Trichophthalma jaffueli 1936 Trichophthalma morenii 1939 Trichophthalma porteri 1934 Trupanea stonei 1946 Trupanea omphrale 1946 HONORS Stuardomyia Cortés 1945 (Diptera) Stuardosatyrus Herrera & Etcheverry 1965 (Lepidoptera)
Carlos Stajano
Carlos V. Stajano Cibils, Uruguayan surgeon (Montevideo 10 October 1891 – Montevideo 1976) From Italian father Described Stajano subcostal syndrome or Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome La reacción frenica em ginecologia. Semana Medica Bs. Aires 27:243-8, 1920 Described a pain in right hypochondrium when one is in Trendelenburg position as a sign of peritoneal hemorrhage (1926) Described the “clinical masks” of pelvic congestion (1931) Proposed trophic reflex as the key mechanism of post-traumatic phenomena EPONYMY Stajano pseudocervicitis Stajano shock Pouey-Stajano sign of tubal ectopic pregnancy or Laffont sign (consisting of peritoneal irritation and subscapular reflex pain; 1930s) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY La fluxion intersticial refleja en patologia general (1958) La congestión pélvica (1957) Las leyes de fisiopatologia del dolor esplácnico que surgen de la clinica. Rev. Mex. Ginec. Cancer 14(3):83, 1946 Fisiopatologia tissular y sus relaciones con la cancerologia (1946) Precancer: physiopathologie de la maladie cancereuse (1944) Concentrated coffee enema for the treatment of shock. Arqu. Med. Urug. 14, 1941 Choc. Los processos generales de la patologia, fisiologia patologica y sus aplicaciones a clinica (1938) La reacción frenica delas hemorragias em el peritoneo libre (1935) With H. Parrillo. La curva de la presión arterial en la raquipercaína. Arch. Urug. Med. Cir. Espec. 3(1):49, 1933 Sistema vegetativo y neurosis trófica (1933) Sistema neurovegetativo y constitución histofisiologica. Sintesis de nuestra orientación em cancerologia (1931) With D. Bennati & B. Pertuzzo. Les facteurs determinants du choc operatoire dans le désarticulations de la hanche (1930) El cuadro agudo de vientre. Thesis (1925) Trofismo y cancer: contribución clinica y experimental (1925) Sistema nervioso y precancer (1921) With J. Estable. Les altérations nerveuses du métamere correspondant à la région experimentalement cancérisée. Irritation chronique et centres nerveux. C.R. Soc. Biol. Paris 107:1556-8, Patologia pulmonar refleja del postoperatorio El choc en las quemaduras de la piel El síndrome broncoparalitico La apendicectomia sin encapuchonamiento del muñón
Carlos Spegazzini
Carlo Luigi Spegazzini or Carlos Luis Spegazzini, Italian-born Argentine botanist, mycologist and explorer (Bairo, Torino Province 20 April 1858 – La Plata 01 July 1926) Authored about 320 papers Described a new variety of rubber La verdenasquina, nueva variedad de caucho. Anales Soc. Cien. Arge. 78:71-3, 1914 Described Puccinia arachidis, causative agent of peanuts rust Described the tobacco rust (1888) independent from Farlow (1885) Described Septoria lycopersici, causal agent of septoriosis or Septoria spot Described Pasmo, a disease of flax (1909) First reported citrus leprosis (1920) Other fungi causing diseases in plants Ustilago paraguayensis (loose smut of Bermuda grass) Cintractia peribebuyensis (smut of Cyperus) Meliola malacotricha (black mildew of Dichondra) Coccostromopsis palmicola Ravenelia platensis (rust of Erythrina) Phyllosticta erythraeae with Saccardo Asterina silvatica Asterina ampullipeda (black soody of Haynaldia) Macabuna malvicola (rust of Hibiscus mutabilis) Meliola arachnoidea Meliola brasiliensis (black mildew of Schinus terenbitifolia) Puccinia opulenta (red of Ipomoea) Puccinia macropoda (rust of Iresine) Aecidium jussieae (rust of Jussiaea) Puccinia arechavaletae (rust of Lonchocarpus) Pestalotiopsis leprogena (brown blotch of Musa sapientum) Drepanoconis larvaeformis Glomerella tucumanensis (red rot of Saccharum officinarum) Asterina peraffinis Asterina vagans Pucciniosira pallidula (rust of Triumfetta semitriloba) Prospodium tecomicola (rust of Tabebuia serratifolia) Aecidium verbenae (rust of Verbena litoralis) Puccinia rugosa (rust of Vernonia) Colletotrichum annonicola (anthracnose of custard apple) Phyllosticta sacchari (leaf spot of sugar cane) Phyllachora tropicalis DESCRIBED PLANTAE & FUNGI TAXA Fungi Genera About 180 (at least 115 valid) Species About 3,000 Plantae (about 1,000 taxa) Valid Genera Ameghinoa 1897 Anadenanthera 1923 Benthamiella 1883 Chiovendaea 1916 Delpinophytum 1903 Halophytum 1902 Lecanophora 1926 Maihueniopsis 1925 Notiosciadium 1924 Oxyosmyles 1901 Pantacantha 1902 Parodia 1923 Philippiella 1897 Ramorinoa 1924 Schickendantziella 1903 Subgenera 9 in Stipa (1903) Species About 635 Fossil Plantae (1924) Ameghinoites Carolites Florentinites Romeroites HONORS Spegazzinia Saccardo 1880 (Fungi) Neospegazzinia Petrak 1936 (Fungi) Spegazzinites Felix 1894 (Fossil Fungi) Spegazziniophytum Esser 2001 (Euphorbiaceae)