Wilma Rose Coelho Ribeiro
Wilma Rose Coelho Ribeiro, Brazilian mycologist and plant pathologist (died 1998) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With L.J. Tozetto. Tratamento pós colheita de goiaba (Psidium guajava L.) contra podridão de Guignardia psidii. Rev. Bras. Frutic. 20(2):229-34, 1998 With F. Gauch. Ocorrência de espécies de Pythium potencialmente micoparasitas, com oogônio equinulado, em solos de Brasilia., Distrito Federal. Fitop. Bras. 23:176-9, 1998 With M.F. Santos, M.G.R. Faiad & A.N. Salomão. Avaliação da qualidade sanitária e fisiológica das sementes de caroba. Rev. Bras. Sementes 20(1):1-6, 1998 With M.F. Santos, M.G.R. Faiad & S.M. Sano. Fungos associados as sementes de baru (Dipteryx alata Vog.). Rev. Bras. Sementes 19:1359, 1997 With L. Tozetto. Leaf spot of mangoes caused by Cylindrocladium scoparium in central Brazil. J. Phytopathol. 144:471-2, 1996 With E.E. Butler. Comparison of the mycoparasites Pythium periplocum, Pythium acanthicum and Pythium oligandrum. Mycol. Res. 99:963-8, 1995 With L.J. Tozetto. Obtenção de conídios e ascosporos de Guignardia psidii (Phyllosticta psidii) e sua inoculação em frutos e folhas de goiaba (Psidium guaiavae) e outras hospedeiras. Fitop. Bras. 20:318, 1995 With L.J. Tozetto. Germinação in vitro de conídios e ascosporos de Guignardia psidii (Phyllosticta psidii), causador da podridão em frutos de goiaba. Fitop. Bras. 20:318, 1995 With E.E. Butler. Isolation of mycoparasitic species of Pythium with spiny oogonia from soil in California. Mycol. Res. 95:857-62, 1992 Mycoparasitism by Pythium periplocum and related species of Pythium with spiny oogonia. Ph. D. thesis, University of California (1991) With J.C. Dianese, R.D. Sharma, M.A.S.V. Ferreira & A.F. Urben. Chickpea: a new host of Cylindrocladium clavatum. Fitop. Bras. 12:403-4, 1987 With J.C. Dianese & A.F. Urben. Root-rot of soybean caused by Cylindrocladium clavatum in central Brazil. Plant Disease 70(10):977-80, 1986 With H.A. Bolkan. Anastomosis groups and pathogenicity of Rhizoctonia solani isolates from Brazil. Plant Disease 69(7):599-601, 1985 With J.C. Dianese & T.S.A. Moraes. Colletotrichum gloesporioides associated with lesions on branches of Eucalyptus pellita affected by the Mal do Rio Doce disease. Turrialba 35:29-32, 1985 With J.C. Dianese & C.S. Huang. Podridão radicular da soja causado principalmente por Cylindrocladium clavatum em Brasilia. Fitop. Bras. 9:316, 1984 With H.A. Bolkan & J.C. Dianese. Occurrence and pathogenicity of Alternaria brassicicola in Brazil. Plant Disease 67:825-7, 1983 With H.A. Bolkan & O.C. Almeida. Pathogenicity of Cylindroclavatum causing potato tuber rot. Plant Disease 56:47-9, 1981 With H.A. Bolkan. Efeito do extrato do alho em Cylindrocladium clavatum, Fusarium moniliforme var. subglutinans e Rhizoctonia solani. Fitop. Bras. 6:565-6, 1981 With H.A. Bolkan. Micoflora de frutos da bananeira (Musa spp.) comercializadas no Distrito Federal. Fitopat. Bras. 6(3):445-50, 1981 With H.A. Bolkan. Micoflora de frutos de tomate comercializados no Distrito Federal. Fitopat. Bras. 6:367-75, 1981 With J.C. Dianese, H.A. Bolkan & F.A.A. Couto. Espécies de fungos do gênero Fusarium associados com a rizosfera do abacaxizeiro em Monte Alegre, Minas Gerais. Fitop. Bras. 6(2):217-21, 1981 With H.A. Bolkan, J.C. Dianese & O.C. de Almeida. Disease caused by Cylindrocladium on potato tubers in Brazil. Plant Disease 64:225, 1980 With H.A. Bolkan. Ocorrencia do gênero Fusarium e suas espécies em solos cultivados do cerrado no Distrito Federal. Fitopat. Bras. 5:75-85, 1980 HONORS Wilmia Dianese, Inacio & Dornelo-Silva 2001 (Fungi)
William Antonio Rodrigues
William Antonio Rodrigues, Brazilian botanist (São João del Rei, Minas Gerais State 26 June 1928 – Authored over 160 works including 75 papers, 34 book chapters and 2 books DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genus Micrandropsis 1973 (Euphorbiaceae) Species Allantoma pauciramosa 1974 Aniba lancifolia 1976 with Kubitzki Anisophyllea manausensis 1971 with Pires Chrysophyllum durifructum 1974 Compsoneura rigidifolia 1989 Corythophora rimosa 1974 Couratari longipedicellata 1974 Couratari prancei 1974 Dalechampia olympiana 1957 with Kuhlmann Dicymbe arenicola 1980 Dicypellium manausense 1968 Erythroxylum albertianum 1957 with Kuhlmann Guatteria friesiana 2008 Hymenolobium discolor 1980 with Mattos Iryanthera campinae 1982 Iryanthera inpae 1981 Micrandropsis scleroxylon 1971 Monopteryx inpae 1975 Ophiocaryon manausense 1972 Peltogyne subsessilis 1974 Phyllanthus manausensis 1971 Pouteria echinocarpa 1974 Rauia prancei 1971 with Silva Vantanea denisae 1982 Virola caducifolia 1977 Virola coelhoi 1977 Virola guggenheimii 1977 Virola marleneae 1977 Virola polyneura 1977 Virola steyermarkii 1989 Vochysia rufescens 1971 HONORS Williamodendron Kubitzki & Richter 1987 (Lauraceae)
Wilhelm Rau
Wilhelm Rau, German-born Brazilian geologist and paleontologist (Ludwigshafen, Palatinate 30 July 1874 – Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul State 11 May 1953) Discovered Gomphodontosuchus brasiliensis (1927) described by Von Huene Described fossil plants Cedroxylon canoasense (1931) & Dadoxylon butiense (1933) HONORS Rauisuchus Von Huene 1942 (Fossil Reptilia)
Vulimiri Ramalingaswami
Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, Indian physician (Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh 08 August 1921 – New Delhi 28 May 2001) Authored 225 scientific works Respected as an international authority on nutritional pathology With M.G. Deo first developed a non-human model of kwarshiorkor in rhesus monkeys Elucidated pathology and pathogenesis of the syndrome of protein-energy malnutrition in children Established the role of proteins in the syndrome of protein-energy malnutrition, earlier attributed to calorie deficiency Related chronic hepatitis B virus to primary hepatocellular carcinoma (1975) Co-described the non-cirrhotic portal fibrosis (1962) Established viral aetiology of nutritional cirrhosis First demonstrated that actual damage of the rods and cones of retinal of newborn monkeys following maternal deficiency of vitamin A independently from Japanese researchers Described the essential pathology of the liver in Indian childhood cirrhosis Identified the major aetiological factors of nutritional anaemia in pregnancy
Virgilio Raffinetti
Virgilio Raffinetti, Argentine engineer (San Juan 29 December 1869 – Buenos Aires 21 November 1946) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Differencia de longitude entre los observatories de Cordoba y La Plata (1904) Descripción de los instrumentos astronômicos del Observatorio de La Plata seguida de uma nota sobre los adelantos mas recientes de la astronomia (1904) Lecciones de geometria descriptiva HONORS Raffinetti 3648 (Asteroid)
Victor A. Ramos
Victor Alberto Ramos, Argentine geologist (Buenos Aires 22 April 1945 – First to determine that the tectonic plates of Andes were locked in a flat slab subduction Discovered accretionary tectonics as part of the Andes formation First to study and propose the horizontal subduction under Andean range mountains SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY (about 16,000 citations) With V.D. Litvak, A. Folguera & M. Spagnuolo. An Andean tectonic cycle: from crustal thickening to extension in a thin crust. (34°-37°SL). Geosc. Frontiers 5:351-67, 2014 With M. Spagnuolo, V.D. Litvak, A. Folguera & G. Bottesi. Neogene magmatic expansion and mountain building processes in the southern Central Andes. 36-37° S, Argentina. J. Geodyn. 53:81-94, 2012 With A. Folguera. Payenia volcanic province in Southern Andes: an appraisal of an exceptional Quaternary tectonic setting. J. Volcan. Geoth. Res. 201:53-64, 2011 With G. Vujovich, R. Martino & J. Otamendi. Pampia: a large cratonic block missing in the Rodinia supercontinent. J. Geodynamics 50:243-55, 2010 With M. Tunik, A. Folguera, M. Naipauer & M. Pimentel. Early uplift and orogenic deformation in the Neuquén basin: constraints on the Andean uplift from U-Pb and Hf isotopic data of detrital zircons. Tectonophysics 489:258-73, 2010 With G.G. Voldman & G.L. Albanesi. Conodont geothermometry of the lower Paleozoic from the Precordillera (Cuyania terrane), northwestern Argentina. J. South Amer. Earth Sciences 29:278-88, 2010 Anatomy and global context of the Andes: main geological features and the Andean orogenic cycle. GSA Memoirs 204:31-65, 2009 With G.G. Voldman & G.L. Albanesi. Ordovician metamorphic event in the carbonate platform of the Argentine Precordillera: implications for the geotectonic evolution of the proto-Andean margin of Gondwana. Geology 37:311-4, 2009 Patagonia: a Paleozoic continent adrift? J.S. Am. Earth Sciences 26:235-51, 2008 Cuyania, an exotic block to Gondwana: review of a historical success and the present problems. Gondwana Res. 7:1009-26, 2004 With E.O. Cristallini & D.J. Pérez. The Pampean flat-slab of the Central Andes. J. South America earth Sciences 15:59-78, 2002 With A. Folguera. Control structural del volcán Copaue. Implicancias tectónicas para el arco volcánico Cuartenario (36°-39°S). Rev. Geol. Arg. 55:229-44, 2000 Los depósitos sinorogènicos terciários de la región andina. Geologia Argentina. Anales Inst. Geol. Recursos Minerales 29(22):651-82, 1999 With J.D. Keppie. Gondwana connections before Pangea. Spec. Paper Geol. Soc. America 336, 1999 With E.J. Milani. Orogenias paleozoicas no domínio sul-ocidental do Gondwana e os ciclos de subsidência da Bacia do Paraná. Rev. Bras. Geoc. 28:473-84, 1998 With M.B. Aguirre Ureta & P.P. Alvarez. Geología de la región del Aconcagua. Anales Direc. Nac. Serv. Geol. Buenos Aires 24 (1996) With M. Cegarra & E. Cristallini. Cenozoic tectonics of the High Andes of west-central Argentina (30°-36°S latitude). Tectonophysics 259:185-200, 1996 With R.N. Alonso. El Mar Paranense en la provincia de Jujuy. Rev. Geol. Jujuy 10:73-80, 1995 Tectonics of the Late Proterozoic-Early Paleozoic: a collisional history of Southern South America. Episodes 11:168-74, 1988 With J. Fuentes & R. Velo. La falla Rio Tupungato: una fractura de cizalla gondwânica, Mendoza, Argentina. Comunicaciones 37:1-15, 1986 With T.E. Jordan, R.W. Allmendinger, C. Mpodozis et al. Paleozoic terranes of the Central Argentine Chilean Andes. Tectonics 5:855-80,1986 Descripción geologica de la hoja 33c. Los Chihuidos Norte, Provincia de Neuquén. Serv. Geol. Nacional 182 (1981) With E.D. Ramos. Los ciclos magmáticos de la Rep. Argentina. Actas 7th Congr. Geol. Argent. P.771-86, 1979 With J.V. Ploszkiewicz. Estratigrafía y tectônica de la Sierra de Payaniyen (Prov. Chubut). Rev. Asoc. Geol. Arg 32(3):209-26, 1978 With F.E. Nullo & C.A. Proserpio. Estratigrafia y tectonica de la vertiente este del Hielo Continental Patagônico, Argentina-Chile. Actas VII Congr. Geol. Arg. 1:455-70, 1978 Estratigrafia de los lagos La Plata y Fontana, Provincia del Chubut. Actas Prim. Congr. Geol. Chileno 1(A):43-64, 1976 HONOURS Foreign Member, USA National Academy of Sciences (2010) Honorary Fellow, Geological Society of America (1993)