Aristoteles Godofredo d Araujo e Silva
Aristóteles Godofredo d’Araújo e Silva, Brazilian agricultural entomologist (c.1910? – 1965) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With C.R. Gonçalves, D.M. Galvão, A.J.L. Gonçalves, J. Gomes, M.N. Silva & L. Simone. Quarto catálogo de insetos que vivem nas plantas do Brasil, seus parasitas e predadores (1968) Uma lista de longicórneos do Ceará (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). Bolm. Soc. Cear. Agron. 8:33-6, 1967 Considerações sobre o combate químico associado ao biológico. Revista FIR 7(2):50-1, 1964 Observações sobre isópteros. Arq. Mus. Nac. Rio de J. 52:193-208, 1962 Seis novas brocas da laranjeira. II. Falsas brocas das plantas. Bol. Fitossan. 6(3-4):119-24, 1956 Seis novas brocas da laranjeira. I. Broca das pontas. Bol. Fitossan. 6(1-2):35-44, 1952-5 Mariposa violácea. Nova praga contra o eucalipto. Como se desenvolvem os primeiros combates. Agric. Pecuária 21(1):316-7, 1949 Tremenda ameaça a eucaliptocultura nacional. Chácaras e Quintais 80(2):165-6, 1949 With D.G. Almeida. Entomologia florestal: contribuição ao estudo das coleobrocas. Publ. Dep. Nac. Prod. Veg. Div. Sanit. Veg. 100(16), 1941 Contribuição para o estudo da biologia de três pentatomídeos e o possível emprego destes insetos no controle biológico de espécies nocivas. Campo 4:23-5, 1933 HONORS Aristotelesia Carvalho 1947 (Hemiptera)
Aquiles Silveira Guido
Abelardo Aquiles Silveira Guido, Uruguayan agricultural entomologist (1914 – 2004) Recognized as a world expert on biological control of agricultural pests SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With H.G. Fowler. Megacephala fulgida: a phonotactically orienting predator of Scapteriscus mole crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae). Cicindela (1989) With E.F. Legner. Establishment of Goniozus emigratus and G. legneri (Hym:Bethylidae) on navel orangeworm, Amyelois transitella (Lepidoptera:Phycitidae) in California and biological control potential. Entomophaga 28(2):97-105, 1983 With E.F. Legner, G. Gordh & M.E. Badgley. New wasp may help control navel orangeworm. California Agriculture 36(5):4-5, 1982 With R. Charudattan, D.E. McKinney & H.A. Cordo. Uredo eichhorniae a potential biocontrol agent for waterhyacinth (1978) With D.H. Habeck. Natural enemies of strangler, Morrenia odorata and two closely related species, M. brachystephana and Araujia hortorum in Uruguay (1977) With R. Charudattan, H.A. Cordo & F.W. Zettler. Obligate pathogens of the milkweed vine Morrenia odorata as biocontrol agents (1976) With B. David Perkins. Biology and host specificity of Cornops aquaticum (Bruner) (Orthoptera: Acrididae), a potential biological control agent for waterhyacinth. Environ. Entom. (1975) With J. Carbonell Bruhn & C. Crisci. Animals associated with the Solenopsis (fire ants) complex, with special reference to Labauchenia daguerrei. Proc. Tall Timbers Conf. Ecol. Animal control Habit Manag. 4:41-52, 1973 Dados preliminaries de biologia y especificidad de Acigona ignitalis Hamps. (Lep, Pyralidae) sobre el husped Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms Laubach (Pontederiaceae). Rev. Soc. Entomol. Arg. 32:137-45, 1971 Investigations on natural enemies of ants (1969) With C. Crisci & J. Carbonell Bruhn. Investigations on the biology and biological control of the fire ant (Solenopsis saevissima richteri) Forel in Uruguay (1967) With J. Carbonell Bruhn. Nuevo metodo para la valoración de los daños del “barrenador de la caña de azúcar” (Diatraea saccharalis F.). Rev. Per. Ent. 9(1):130-3, 1966 Nueva plaga agrícola para el Uruguay: la mosquita del sorgo (Contarinia sp., Diptera Cecidomyiidae) (1965) With J. Carbonel, Bruhn. Los insectos enemigos del girasol en el Uruguay. Bol. Fac. Agron. Univ. Montevideo 81:59-62, 1965 With J. Carbonell Bruhn. Investigaciones sobre un factor (f) em la estimación de las poblaciones de Tucuras (1965) Studies of the parasites and predators of several insects of economic importance. Final Report (1965) Natural enemies of weed plants. Final Report (1965) With J.F. Carbonell & O. Nuñez. Investigaciones sobre acridoideos del Uruguay (1958) With H.L. Parker & P.A. Berry. Host-parasite and parasite-host lists of insects reared in the South American Parasite Laboratory during the period 1940-1946. Rev. As. Ing. Agron. 92, 1951 (Separata) La langosta Schistocerca cancellata y su control. Rev. Fac. Agron. Montevideo 44:69-166, 1947 With E. Conde Jahn. El pulgón verde de los cereales (Toxoptera graminum Rond.) del Uruguay. Rev. Fac. Agron. Montevideo (1945) El gorgojo del apio en el Uruguay. Ingen. Agron. B. Aires 26:16, 1943
Aníbal Cipriano da Silveira Santos
Aníbal Cipriano da Silveira Santos, Brazilian neuro-psychiatrist (São Roque, São Paulo State 17 March 1902 – São Paulo 16 August 1979) Authored 53 papers ESTABLISHED A classification of mental processes in 24 clinical tables The dependence relationships between frontal lobe areas and posterior cortical zones The identity between neurophysiologic and psychical stimuli LINKS http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0004-282X1979000400014&script=sci_arttext (in Portuguese)
Antonio Sesso
Antonio Sesso, Brazilian morphologist and microscopist (São Paulo 08 August 1930 – ACHIEVEMENTS Performed the first observation about structural genesis of membranous compartments originated from endoplasmic reticulum With S.R.R. B. Azimovas, M.A. Ferreira & W.T. Correa. Freeze-fracture and thin section study of the rough ER-Golgi interface in the pancreatic acinar cell. Resemblance betwwen the intermembranal architecture of the outermost Golgi cisterna and the post-rough ER vesicular and tubular elements. Biol. Cell. 81(2):165-76, 1994 With others showed that rupture of the outer mitochondrial membrane seen in apoptotic cells results of the loss of the selective permeability of the inner mitochondrial membrane (2004-12) With others showed vesicular clusters as a third similarity between mitosis and apoptosis in Tissue & Cell 31(3):357-71, 1999 Observed that mycoplasma enters cells through periphery METHODS Developed procedure for high resolution autoradiography (1963) With H. Haselmann, S. Raia, L.C. U. Junqueira et al. A method for microcinematography of secretory processes in the pancreas of the white mouse. Mikroskopie 8(11-2):400-5, 1953 With R. Taga & E.P. Alvares. Morphometric evaluation of the volume of the spherical and nonspherical cell nuclei in semithin plastic embedded sections. Rev. Fac. Odont. Bauru 2(1):41-4, 1994 With R. Taga & L.C. Pardini. Avaliação da homogeneidade da amostra em morfometria. Rev. Fac. Odont. Bauru 6(4):57-60, 1994 (a method for verifying the samples homogeneity in morphometric evaluation) With R. Taga & L.C. Pardini. Grau de precisão na avaliação morfométrica do número de células. Rev. Fac. Odont. Bauru 6(4):67-70, 1994 (a method for estimating the precision degree in the morphometric absolute cell number evaluation)
Angel Spotorno
Angel Enrique Spotorno Oyarzún, Chilean mammalogist and geneticist (1943 – DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Mammalia Loxodontomys pikumche 1998 with Cofre, Manríquez, Vilina, Marquet & Walker Eligmodontina dunaris 2013 with Zuleta, Walker, Manríquez, Valladares & Marín Lagidium ahuacaense 2009 with Ledesma, Wener & Albuja Reptilia Liolaemus molinai 2002 with Valladares, Etheridge, Schulte & Manríquez Siphonaptera Agastopsylla nylota euneomys 1984 with Lewis HONORS Subgenus Angelomys Teta, Cañon, Patterson & Pardiñas 2016 (Mammalia)
Andrés Straffon Osorno
Andrés Ernesto Straffon Osorno, Mexican pediatrician (10 January 1925 – Ciudad de Mexico 23 August 2012) Authored the first monograph about preputium (1982) Showed that the prepuce is a sphincter-similar plexiform smooth muscle (Straffon-Vargas dartos) Elaborated neostigmine test for pathognomonic diagnosis of congenital pyloric stenosis (1959) Developed a new technique for synechotomy Patented a synechotomy forceps and 4 distinct kinds of tongue depressors