João Ramos e Silva
João Ramos e Silva, Brazilian dermatologist (Rio de Janeiro 11 June 1898 – 26 November 1983) Authored over 250 works, notes, comments, conferences and book chapters Described keratoderma marginalis volia mannum or marginal keratoderma of the palms known as Ramos e Silva disease Queratoderma marginal das palmas. Med. Cutan. 2:27-36, 1962 Sur la “kératodermie marginal des paumes”. Ann. Dermatol. Syphil. 89:24-31, 1962 Developed a intradermic reaction for sporotrichosis (Ramos e Silva-Padilha Gonçalves reaction) Nota sobre o valor diagnóstico da esporotriquina. O Hospital 38:625, 1950 Described macrocheilitis as a manifestation of paracoccidioidomycosis With A. Padilha Gonçalves. La macrocheilite de la blastomycose. J. B. Med. 13(5):435-9, 1967 First to observe lupus eritematosus profundus in subacute cases With H. Portugal. Cas di Lupus érythemateux profond. Ann. Derm. Syph. 82:34, 1955 Defined clinics and diagnostic ways for South American blastomycosis SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Sobre uma forma particular de sífilis tardia das extremidades – sifilide-eritro-queratodérmica discrômica. Brasil Medico, 1929 Sobre a forma puramente cutânea da blastomicose brasileira. O Hospital 22(5):737-41, 1942 A clinical and evolutionary concept of the different aspects of leprosy. O Hospital 45:397-402, 1954 With A. Padilha Gonçalves. Sobre as formas clínicas da esporotricose. O Hospital 45:555-8, 1954 With A. Padilha Gonçalves. Sur les dyschromies des treponematoses. Ann. Dermatol. Syphil 81:491-596, 1954 L’innervation de la peau ne parait jouer aucun role dans le mécanisme de la sensibilisation de la peau au di-nitro-chlorobenzene: experiences sur des maladies atteintes de leper anesthésique. Dermatologica 111:1-8, 1955 Eritema nodoso na lepra. Bol. Serv. Nac. Lepra 15:5-8, 1956 Peri-foliculite abscendante de Hoffmann, sua possível etiologia micótica. O Hospital 50:767, 1956 Coussinets dês phalanges “Pulvillus digiti”. Ann. Dermatol. Syphil. 83:22-33, 1956 Incontinentia pigmenti. Dermatologica 115:623-32, 1957 Die keratophytia nigra (tinea nigra). In: J. Jadassohn (editor). Handbuch der haut-und Geschlechtskrankheiten. Springer-Verlag, p.463-51, 1963 Syndrome de Zinsser-Fanconi. Ann. Dermatol. Syphilgraph. 93:497-502, 1966 With R. Fleischmajer & A. Nedwich. Hyalinosis cutis et mucosae. A histochemical staining and analytical biochemical study. J. Invest. Dermatol. 52:495-503, 1969 With M.P. Netto. Leishmanids. Int. J. Dermatol. 12:104-9, 1973 Sarna nodular e sarna nodular, sua diferenciação clínica. An. Bras. Dermatol. 52:407-14, 1977
João Evangelista Rick
Johann Evangelista Rick, Austrian-born Brazilian jesuit and mycologist (Dombim 19 January 1869 – Salvador do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul State 06 May 1946) DESCRIBED VALID FUNGI GENERA Aldrigiella 1934 Anthoseptobasidium 1943 Basidiodendron 1938 Brauniella 1955 Bresadolina 1928 Coniophorames 1934 Crystallocystidium 1940 Cystidiodendron 1943 Dacryomycetopsis 1958 Gloeoasterostroma 1938 Gloeopeniophorella 1934 Grandiniochaete 1940 Irpicochaete 1940 Odontiochaete 1940 Protoradulum 1933 Radulochaete 1940 Stereofomes 1928 Zanchia 1958 HONORS Rickia Cavara 1899 (Fungi)
José Rosemberg
José Rosemberg, Jewish Brazilian pneumologist and phthisiologist (London, England 19 September 1909 – São Paulo 24 November 2005) From Austrian father and Polish mother Authored 212 works on tuberculosis, 68 on smoking and 14 books Internationally known for his work on tuberculosis control With N. de Sousa Campos & Jamil N. Aun showed that BCG vaccine exerts protecting power against leprosy HONORS Palmes Academiques de France (1970) Tobacco and Health Medal, WHO (1991)
José Reis
José Reis, Brazilian veterinarian and science popularizer (Rio de Janeiro 12 June 1907 – São Paulo 16 May 2002) Recognized as a world expert on avian diseases Coined the term ornithopathology With P.C. Nóbrega described Eimeria rhynchoti 1936 (Protozoa Apicomplexa) With P. C. Nóbrega proposed inoculation in pigeons as way for diagnosis of avian cholera in Arqu. Inst. Biol. 8:183, 1937 Described Aspergillum keratomycosis in Arqu. Inst. Biol. 11:437-50, 1939 With P. C. Nóbrega described a new technique for chicken embryo egg based vaccine preparation for avian spirochaetosis in Arqu. Inst. Biol. S. Paulo 12:87, 1941 Developed a prophylactic vaccine for avian yaws With his wife, pharmacist Anita Sodré Swensson Reis (1910 – 1999) and Paulo da Cunha Nóbrega authored Tratado de Ornitopatologia (Treatise of Ornithopathology) translated to many languages (1936). This book was regarded as complete and used (in Portuguese) at Rutgers University With K.M. Silberschmidt & H. Rocha Lima authored Methoden der Virusforschungen later incorporated to Abderhalden’s Handbuch der biologischen Arbeitsmethoden (1939)
José Ramírez Mateos
José Aurelio Ramírez Mateos, Mexican naturalist and physician (Ciudad de Mexico 12 November 1852 – Ciudad de Mexico 11 April 1904) DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE SPECIES Bursera aptera 1894 Bursera morelensis 1896 Bursera trijuga 1894 Casimiroa pubescens 1896 Pterostemon rotundifolia SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Estudio bacteriológico de las aguas potables de la Ciudad de Mexico Raices de la vid atacadas por la filoxera La fumagina del cafeto El picudo del algodonero La vegetación de Mexico (1899) La papaya voladora Sinonimia vulgar y botânica de las plantas mexicanas (1902) Herbario de Cervantes Razas primitivas de America Noticias acerca de algunas laminas de la iconografia inédita de la Flora Mexicana de Sessé y Mociño (1903) HONORS Ramirezella Rose 1903 (Fabaceae)
José Manuel Ruiz
José Manuel Ruiz, Brazilian helmintologist and parasitologist (Dourado, São Paulo State 04 February 1913 – São Paulo 28 March 1959) From Spanish parents METHODS Described perfusion and collecting techniques for Schistosoma sp. Técnica de perfusão para a coleta de Schistosoma mansoni em animais de laboratório. Mem. Inst. Butantan 24(2):101-9, 1952 Processo rápido de perfusão do sistema porta-hepático de mamíferos para coleta de esquistossomídeos, aplicável aos trabalhos de campo. Mem. Inst. Butantan São Paulo 25(2):29-33, 1953 DESCRIBED TREMATODA/NEMATODA TAXA Valid Genera (all Trematoda) Aliptrema 1954 with Leão Liophistrema 1943 with Leão & Artigas Neoctangium 1943 Westella 1943 with Leão & Artigas Species Aliptrema ribeiroi 1954 with Leão Catadiscus freitaslenti 1943 Cercaria acaudata 1952 Cercaria amplicocecata 1953 Cercaria caratinguensis 1953 Cercaria hemiura 1952 Cercaria lutzi 1943 Cercaria macrogranulosa 1952 Cercaria minense 1952 Cercaria santense 1952 Choledocystus vesicalis 1943 with Leão Cyathocotyle brasiliensis 1943 with Leão Gnathostoma brasiliense 1952 Haplometroides odhneri 1959 with Perez Infidum intermedium 1943 with Leão Liophistrema pulmonalis 1943 with Leão & Artigas Mesocoelium sibynomorphi 1943 with Leão Neoctangium travassosi 1943 Opisthogonimus artigasi 1943 with Leão Opisthogonimus fariai 1943 with Leão Opisthogonimus fonsecai 1943 with Leão Opisthogonimus pereirai 1943 with Leão Petalediplostomum aristoterisi 1954 with Rangel Pseudoneodiplostomum brasiliensis 1954 with Rangel Ruicephalus minutus 1946 Westella serpentis 1943 with Leão & Artigas Westella sulina 1943 with Leão & Artigas HONORS Ruicephalus Skrjabin 1955 (Trematoda)