Albino Morimasa Sakakibara
Albino Morimasa Sakakibara, Brazilian entomologist (São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo State 29 May 1941 – From Japanese ancestry DESCRIBED HEMIPTERA/HOMOPTERA TAXA Genera Acanthodeois 1979 Aurimastris 2007 with Evangelista Bordoniana 1999 Carachata 1989 with Carvalho Cleusiana 1989 with Cavichioli Cornutalis 1998 Creonus 1996 Deoisella 2002 with Costa Eucyphonia 1968 Fermeria 2000 Fennahia 1979 Folicarina 1992 Germariana 1998 Hanstruempelia 2004 Lycoderides 1972 Micropepla 1979 Nasuconia 2007 Neotynelia 2000 with Creão Duarte Notogonia 1996 Paracentronodus 1971 Paraphetea 2000 with Creão Duarte Peltosticta 1976 Proxolonia 1969 Pseuderechtia 2012 Ramedia 1989 with Creão Duarte Sinopia 1977 Tapinolobus 1969 Species About 260 species of treehoppers, spittlebugs and cicadellids HONORS Sakakibarella Creão Duarte 1997 (Hemiptera) Albiniana Cavichioli 1996 (Homoptera) Albinapis Urban & Graf 2000 (Hymenoptera) Sakakibarana Gonçalves, Takiya & Mejdalani 2017 (Hemiptera) Sakakidikra Catalano & Dietrich 2017 (Hemiptera) LINKS https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4281.1.3.
Alberto Santos Dumont
Alberto Santos Dumont, Brazilian aviator and inventor (Palmira, today Santos Dumont, Minas Gerais State 20 July 1873 – Guarujá, São Paulo State 23 July 1932) Of French descent IMPROVEMENTS/INVENTIONS More than 20 inventions related to ballons, dirigibles, monoplanes and biplanes Many inventions in field of mechanics Discovered and comproved balloons dirigibility and their motion in the air without requiring winds force (1898) Performed the first mechanical flight in the world (with 14-bis) and developed the first flight simulator (1906) Introduced main landing gear unit in airplanes Stablished stabilizer function to mooring cable and developed flight stabilizers Produced propellers, aluminium compounds and other materials Placed gasoline engines in dirigibles Invented hangar with sliding doors (1900) and Demoiselle 20, the first hang-glider (1909) First to employ engines (1898) and illuminating gas (1899) to ballons (Amerique balloon, the first use of petrol engine in aviation (1898)) Developed the precursor of ailerons Introduced landing wheels, dihedron and nose to airplanes The artificial horizon for pilots guidance The utilization of rubber dampers Improvements in carburetors and magnets Invented opposed-piston engine Built an airplane with aquatic slipper (hydroavion forerunner) 1907 Improvements in aircraft construction techniques Invented life-saver cannon, that throw safety buoys Conceived Marciano, a motor that aid skiers motion A kind of knapsack for individual flight Platform shoes Half stairs An engine that produces electric power Wrist watch for men (1904) A mechanism for take edible baits before racing dogs Designed and built the first automobile with the best power to weight ratio until then (1897) Pantographic door Sports Won Paris-Nice car racing Won ski competitions in France and Switzerland (1904-5) His greyhound Sabreur du diable won Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud (1926) Established motor tricycle races in Paris (1892) HONORS Lunar Santos Dumont crater Deutsche Prize (1901) TRIVIA Invited to meet US President Theodore Roosevelt in White House (1904)
Alberto Juan Solari
Alberto Juan Solari Rodríguez, Argentine cytogeneticist (Buenos Aires 04 February 1934 – Discovered XY pair in the meiosis of placental mammals The behavior of the XY pair in mammals. Intern. Review Cytology 38:273-317, 1974 First to study the set of synaptonemal complexes in human spermatocytes Synaptonemal complexes and associated structures in microspread human spermatocytes. Chromosoma 81(3):315-37, 1980 With M.I. Pigozzi. First demonstration of the substructure of recombination nodules. Biocell 22 (3): 177-86, 1998 With L.F. Rossi. Nueva organela compuesta de citoqueratina en los ovocitos del armadillo Chaetophractus villosus (2017) DEVELOPED METHODS / SOME DISCOVERIES With C.J. Tandler. An “axis-like” material in the centromeric region of the metaphase I chromosomes from mouse spermatocytes. Genetica 84(1):39-49, 1991 With C.J. Tandler. Presence of a centromeric filament during meiosis. Genome 34(6):888-94, 1991 With C.J. Tandler. Methanol-acetic anhydride: an efficient blocking agent for electron microscope cytochemistry. Its application to mouse testis and other tissues. Histochemistry 76(3):351-61, 1982 With M.J. Moses. Positive contrast staining and protective drying of surface spreads: electron microscopy of a synaptonemal method complex by a new method. J. Ultrastruct. Res. 54 (1):109-114, 1976 Relevant papers With B. Kiefer, H. Sakai & D. Mazia. The molecular unit of the microtubules of the mitotic apparatus. J. Mol. Biol. 20 (1):75-9, 1966 With E.A. Videla & E.B. Del Castillo. Chromosomes in germinal aplasia. The Lancet 282 (7313): 886, 1963 With A.B. Sverdlick & E.R. Viola. Chromosome abnormality in myeloid metaplasia. The Lancet 280 (7256): 613, 1962
Alberto José de Sampaio
Alberto José de Sampaio, Brazilian botanist and geographer (Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro State 05 February 1881- Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro State 30 December 1946) From Portuguese and French descent Authored 174 works Presented a new phytogeographic division of Brazil used worldwide DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE TAXA Genera (With Kuhlmann) Clinostemon 1928 (Lauraceae) Pseudocalymma 1933(Bignoniaceae) Species Acianthera acuminatipetala 1916 Acianthera gouveiae 1916 Adenocalymma biternata 1938 Adenocalymma longilineum 1936 Adianthum multisorum 1916 Adiantum rondonii 1916 Barbosella dusenii 1909 Clinostemon mahuba 1917 Cyathea uleana 1923 Diplazium mattogrossense 1916 Elaphoglossum jurunae 1916 Hemitelia caesariana 1935 Martinella iquitoensis 1935 Memorea cinnabarina 1938 Memorea cuminaensis 1938 Memorea madeirensis 1938 Memorea rondonii 1938 Memorea tridenticalyx 1938 Microstylis humicola 1923 Miscanteca duckei 1917 Octomeria duckei 1923 Pecluma hoehnii 1916 Pleurothallis organensis 1923 Polypodium kuhlmannii 1916 Tanaecium duckei 1935 HONORS Sampaiella Gomes 1948 (Bignoniaceae) Sampaiosia Mello Leitão 1930 (Arachnida)
Agustín Stahl
Anton Adolf August Stahl or Agustín Stahl, Puerto Rican physician, naturalist, archaeologist and ethnologist (Curaçao 21 January 1842 – Bayamón 12 July 1917) From German father and Dutch mother Described Clusia gundlachii and Marialva elliptica in 1884 Besides collecting plants, gathered 2,300 animal specimens and 800 indigenous artifacts SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Pictografias indo-boricanas del litoral (1907-17) Un caso de neurosis vasomotora de las extremidades. Erytromelalgia Bol. Asoc. Med. Puerto Rico 6(71), 1908 Demonstración de dos casos de neuropatias y dos de teratologia. Bol. Asoc. Med. Puerto Rico 6(65), 1908 Dos nuevas entidades patológicas. Bol. Asoc. Med. Puerto Rico 1(8-9), 1903 Estudios Etnologicos de los indios Borinqueños (1889) Estudios sobre la flora de Puerto Rico (1883-8) Catalogo de gabinete zoológico (1882) Informe sobre la enfermedad de la cana de azúcar (1878) El tortugo amarillo de Puerto Rico y las sapotáceas. Anales Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. (1874) Notas de la flora de Puerto Rico y Islas Vírgenes HONORS Stahlia Bello 1881 (Fabaceae)
Ady Raul da Silva
Ady Raul da Silva, Brazilian plant geneticist (Rio de Janeiro 02 August 1917 – 18 September 2011) Developed 26 wheat (IAS13, IAS20, São Borja, Piratini) and 2 oatmeal cultivars With J.M.V. Andrade & J.C. Leite. Duas novas cultivares de trigo para a região do Brasil Central: BR9 Cerrados e BR10 Formosa. Pesq. Agrop. Bras. 19:109-13, 1984 Improved selection methods for wheat varieties resistant to rust and other diseases Identified new races of wheat rust Estudos preliminaries para a produção de variedades de trigo resistentes as ferrugens no Brasil. Serv. Nac. Pesq. Agron. B1 (1947) (isolated seven races of leaf rust) With E.T. Coelho & A.V. da Silva. Identificação de raças de ferrugem da folha do trigo, no Brasil pelo uso de um novo grupo de variedades. Robigo 10:7-22, 1960 With E.T. Coelho. Novas raças fisiológicas de ferrugem do colmo no Rio Grande do Sul. Robigo (1964) Other contributions With E.T. Coelho. The identification of physiologic races of Puccinia graminis var. tritici by wheat isogenic or substitution lines, carrying genes for resistance. Wheat Inform. Serv. 17:33-4, 1964 Discovered that wheat male sterility (sterile spikelets) is due to an interaction of climactic factors and the boron (1977) Pointed out the tolerance to toxic aluminium that a number of plants present Showed that is possible distinguish the seeds of red rice from those of cultivars by translucidity