Carlos Ruiz Fuller
Carlos Enrique Ruiz Fuller, Chilean geologist and mining engineer (Valparaíso 23 September 1916 – Santiago 28 March 1997) From English and Danish ancestry Described a new Kind of metamorphic bed of contact Los yacimientos de hierro de la región noroccidental de Copiapó, un tipo no descrito de yacimiento de contato metamórfico. Boletín Minero 552:820-87, 1943 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Distribution and characteristics of Chilean copper deposits (1990) With F. Peebles. Geologia, distribución y genesis de los yacimientos metalíferos de Chile (1988) With I. Hayami & S. Maeda. Some late Triassic Bivalvia and Gastropoda from the Domeyko range of North Chile. Trans. Proc. Paleont. Soc. Jpn. NS 108:202-21, 1977 With A.B. Vistelius, D.N. Ivanov & Y. Kuroda. Variations of modal composition of granitic rocks in some regions around the Pacific. Math. Geology 2(1):63-80, 1970 With A.B. Vistelius. On the origin of variations in the composition of granitic rocks of Chile and Bolivia (1969) With O.A. Moraga & A. Aguilar. Genesis of the Chilean iron ore deposits of Mesozoic age (1968) Discusión sobre el origen de los yacimientos de hierro (1967) La geologia y la mineralogenetica en America Latina (1965) Distribución y origen de la mineralización em Chile (1965) With W.H. Diment, F.O. Ortiz & L.R. Silva. Terrestrial heat flow at two localities near Vallenar, Chile (1965) With G. Ericksen. Metallogenetic Provinces of Chile, S.A. Economic Geology 57:91-106, 1962 With K. Segerstrom. Geologia del Cuadrangulo Copiapó. Inst. Invest. Geol. (1962) With K. Segerstrom & L. Aguirre. Edades plomo-alfa y marco estratigrafico de granitos chilenos. Con una discusión acerca de su relación con la orogénesis (1960) With J.F.McAllister & Hector Flores W. Quicksilver deposits of Chile. Bull. Geol. Survey 964, 1950 Posibilidades mineras de Aysén (1946) Estudio geologico y economico de los distritos de Ojancos y Punta del Cobre, Copiapó (1940) HONORS Carlosruizite Konnert, Evans, McGee & Ericksen 1994 (Mineral)
Carlos Rivero Solar
Carlos Rivero Solar, Venezuelan inventor (Cabure, Falcón State 04 November 1826 – Cabure, Falcón State 13 June 1904) INVENTIONS Water-powered mill A machine to hull coffee beans A machine for grinding sharp tools like machetes, knifes and others A rodent trap A wood drill El Pájaro Serrano, a hawk-inspired flight apparatus (1868)
Carlos Renson
Carlos Renson, Belgian-born Salvadorean apothecary and plant collector (Amberes 1858 – El Salvador 30 Mar 1941) ACHIEVEMENTS Nouveau procede de recherches des Trichines dans les viandes. In Bull. de la Soc. belge de microscopie, X, p. 2i, 1884, SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With J. Puente, 1889, Informe sobre la expedición cientlfica a los ausoles de Ahuachapin: San Salvador Univ. No. 2, ser. 1 ; repr., 1929, in Garcia, MA, Diccionario Histórico-Enciclopedico de la Republica de El Salvador, Conservación del maíz y de los frijoles. Boletín de Agricultura (El Salvador) 3:483-485. 1903. Contribución a Analisis Toxicológica del Mercurio, Proceedings of the second Pan American Scientific Congress, Washington, U.S.A., Monday, December 27, 1915 to Saturday, January 8, 1916, 1915-1916, vol 12 El Tripsacum latifolium Hitchcock. Revista Agricola 5: 351-368, 1919. El Zacate jaragua, Cymbopogon rufus. Rev. Agric. Salvadoreña (1921) El Zacate Gordura. Molasses Grass (Mellinis minutiflora). Rev. Agr. Trop. 1(6): 333-337, 1928 Forraje verde para la estación seca: el Tripsacum latifolium Hitchc. Rev. Ganad. San Salvador 4(45-7):26-9, 1943 El Tripsacum fasciculatum Trinius. Rev. Agric. Salvad. 1(9):3-7, 1913 El barajillo, leguminosa forrajera de America Central. Rev. Agric. Trop. 1:65-93, Las plantas forrajeras que nos interesan: el barajillo de El Salvador. Rev. Agric. Trop. San Salvador HONORS Rensonia S.F. Blake (Asteraceae)
Carlos de Toledo Rizzini
Carlos de Toledo Rizzini, Brazilian botanist and lichenologist (Monteiro Lobato, São Paulo State 18 April 1921 – 03 October 1992) Authored with W.B. Mors & N.A. Pereira, Medicinal Plants of Brazil (2000), with international repercussion Authored with W.B. Mors Useful Brazilian plants (1966) translated into English and German Proposed a preparation method of pollen grains for mounting Estudos sobre as Acanthaceae. Bol. Mus. Nac. Rio de Janeiro, Bot. 8:1-38, 1947 DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Valid Genera Apterokarpos 1975 Arapatiella 1975 with Mattos Ixocactus 1953 Liberatia 1947 Morsacanthus 1952 Pupilla 1949 Species About 340
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao, Indian statistician and mathematician (Hwuina, Hadagalli Village, Bellary District, Karnataka State 10 September 1920 – Respected as one of great statisticians of 20th century ACHIEVEMENTS Authored over 350 research papers and 14 books Devised the criterion of second order efficiency Established optimal properties of maximum livelihood estimation Introduced differential geometric concepts in statistical inference and appear Introduced analysis of dispersion in multivariate analysis (MANOVA) Enunciated concept of orthogonal arrays of strength d (1949) Created Rao efficient score test (1947) HONORS Wilks Medal, American Statistical Association (1989) National Medal of Science, United States (2002) Mahalanobis International Award, International Statistical Institute (2003) Guy Medal, Royal Statistical Society, United Kingdom (2011) EPONYMY Cramer-Rao inequality (1945) Rao distance Blackwell-Rao theorem or Rao Blackwellization (1945) Rao-Blackwell estimator Lehman-Scheffe-Rao theorem Cramer-Rao bound Cramer-Rao functional Fisher-Rao theorem Fisher-Rao metric Rao measure Rao theorem Neyman-Rao test Rao least squares Rao covariance structure Rao U test Rao F test Rao paradox Rubon-Rao theorem Lau-Rao theorem Lau-Rao-Shanbhag theorems Rao-Yanoi generalized inverse theorem Rao-Khatri-Linnik-Shanbhag theorems on characterization of probability models Kagan-Linnik-Rao theorem Guttman-Rao relationships (1948) Rao generalized inverse of a matrix Rao quadratic entropy
Cadambathur Tirunvenkatacharlu Rajagopal
Cadambathur Tirunvenkatacharlu Rajagopal, Indian mathematician (Triplicane, Madras 08 September 1903 – Madras 25 April 1978) Authored 80 papers Recorded relations between certain classical limit theorems (1947) Proved and/or extended Tauberian theorems Gave an analogue of Edmond Landau’s theorem on partial sums of Fourier series Eponym of Rajagopal lemma