Rubidge family
Richard Nathaniel Rubidge, Welsh-born South African geologist (Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales 11 February 1820 – Port Elizabeth 08 August 1869) He was a collector of fossil and living plants SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY On the changes rendered necessary in the geological map of South Africa by recent discoveries of fossils. Quart. J. Geol. Soc. (1865) On the relations of the Silurian schists with the quartzose rocks of South Africa. Geol. Magazine (1864) Physical features of the Eastern Province. Eastern Province Magazine 2:229-33, 1862 The Dicynodon formation. Eastern Province Magazine 2:111-5 & 173-7, 1862 Recent rocks. Eastern Province Magazine 2:29-32, 1862 On the metamorphosis of rocks in the Cape Town district, South Africa. The Geologist (1862) Notes on the metamorphosis of rocks in South Africa. The Geologist (1862) The clay-slate and its fossils. Eastern Province Magazine 1:148-55, 195-200 & 234-7, 1861 On some points in the geology of South Africa. Quart. J. Geol. Soc. (1858) On the copper mines of Namaqualand (1857) Notes on the geology of some parts of South Africa (1856) On the occurrence of gold in the trap-dykes intersecting the Dicynodon Strata of South Africa. Quart. J. Geol. Soc. (1855) HONORS Rubidgea Tate 1867 (Fossil Plantae) LINKS http://www.s2a3.org.za/bio/Biograph_final.php?serial=2422 The son of his nephew, Sidney Henry Southey Rubidge, South African amateur paleontologist (Graaff-Reinet, Western district, Eastern Cape 31 May 1887 – Graaff-Reinet, Western district, Eastern Cape 26 July 1970) His fossil museum has come to be recognized as the finest private collection of Karoo fossils in the world mainly fossil mammal-like reptiles HONORS (Fossil) Rubidgea Broom 1948 & Rubidgina Broom 1942 (Reptilia)
Rosendo Rubi
Rosendo Rubi Altamirano, Nicaraguan physician and inventor (León 1861 – León 06 January 1942) Developed a new treatment for gangrenous septicemia Septicemia gangrenosa. Nuevo tratamiento. Universidad León (1895) Invented and demonstrated successfully a radio device for transmiting voice patented in USA (1900)
Rolla Seshagiri Rao
Rolla Seshagiri Rao, Indian botanist (19 August 1921 – Delhi Noida 23 February 2015) With V.H. Kapadia, Sukh Dev & M.Y. Ansari discovered that the alkaloid colchicine could be sourced from Iphigenia stellata for commercial purposes (patented in 1971) DESCRIBED PLANTAE SPECIES Blumea venkataramanii 1973 with Hemadri Chonemorpha pedicellata 1953 Cyanotis arcotensis 1967 Cyanotis cerifolia 1966 with Kammathy Glyphochloa goaensis 1968 with Hemadri Iphigenia magnifica 1979 with Ansari Iphigenia sahyadrica 1979 with Ansari Pimpinella katrajensis 1976 with Hemadri Pollia hasskarlii 1964 Rubus ghanakantae 1972 with Joseph Tricarpelema glanduliferum with Joseph HONORS Seshagiria Ansari & Hemadri 1971 (Asclepiadaceae)
Rodolfo Rohr
Rodolfo Rohr, Austro-Hungarian born Brazilian chemical engineer and entrepneur (Dorog, Komárom-Esztergom County 18 July 1926 – Campinas, São Paulo State 24 March 2018) Developed technology for sterol extraction by molecular distillation Proposed a vaporization tunnel (solution of neem oil and water) for fighting cattle ticks Suggested technology for power generation based on agricultural wasters and biogas for rural regions BRAZILIAN & FOREIGN PATENTS With A. Nikzad & A.K. Kuszlik. Method and device for purifying high melting organic raw products or compound mixtures by means of fractionated melting crystallisation from solvent mixtures (2006) US8056362B2; US20090209773; MY158640A; BRPI0613978; EP1907088; WO2007012214 With R. Rohr. Production of biodiesel (2005) US20060225341 Processo de produção de biodiesel- etil e metil esteres a partir de borra de refino quimico ou físico de oleos vegetais ou animais. BRPI0405705A (2004) With R. Rohr. Process for separating unsaponifiable valuable products from raw materials (2002) US20050054866; US2005003027; US20030120095; US6846941; PL370828; ZA200405510 With J.A. Quijano-Trujillo. Process for extraction and concentration of liposoluble vitamins and provitamins, growth factor and animal and vegetable hormones from residues and by-products of industrialized animal and vegetable products US6344573B1 (2000) Process for the extraction and concentration of unsaponifiables from the residues and by-products of animal and vegetable products (2000) AU2001263677A1 EP1292658B1 NZ523593 AU2007202034 WO 0198444A3 Process for separating saponifiable and non-saponifiable compounds comprised in a vegetable or animal raw material (2001) WO2003052034A1 EP1458839 CA2469754 Granola with whey protein isolate and process for obtaining it BRPI 0903512A2 (2009) US6846941B2 & 20050125 HONORS Rohria Balogh & Mahunka 1977 (Acari)
Rodolfo Robles
Rodolfo Robles Valverde, Guatemalan physician (Quetzaltenango 14 January 1878 – Ciudad de Guatemala 08 November 1939) Discovered that filariasis causes eye lesions First to show the existence of onchocerciasis in the American continent (Robles disease) With Pacheco Luna described the life cycle and transmission of the onchocerciasis, identifying the Simulium flies as the vector (1916-9) With E. Brumpt Identified nematode Onchocerca volvulus as causative agent of onchocercosis and described its epidemiology (1915) Proposed excision surgery and intratumoral injections for treatment of this disease Eponym of Robles disease or onchocercosis and Robles sign SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Onchocercose humaine au Guatemala produisant la cécité et l’erysipele du litoral (Erisipela de la costa). Bull. Soc. Path. Exot. 12(7):442-63, 1919 Pseudolepra o punudos Inoculación de la verruga Etiologia y tratamiento de la colibacilosis Contribución al estudio etiologico de la llamada piorrea dental Notas sobre um signo patognomico de las fracturas del peroné Notas sobre las riquezas de Guatemala em aguas minerales (Fuentes Georginas)
Rizo-Patrón family
Antenor Rizo-Patrón Lequerica, Peruvian mining engineer (Lima 20 November 1867 – Lima 07 July 1948) Discovered a new mineral in 1900 that was named patronite in his honor by J.J. Bravo (1906) His son, Alfonso Rizo-Patrón Remy, mining and metallurgical engineer (Miraflores 09 April 1917 – Lima 11 August 2012) Patented processes of phosphates production