Sergio Porto
Sergio Pereira da Silva Porto, Brazilian physicist (Niterói, Rio de Janeiro State 19 January 1926 – Novosibirski, Siberia 21 June 1979) Recognized as world authority in spectroscopy and laser His laboratory at Bell Labs became one of the most important laboratories in the field of solid state spectroscopy Authored over 150 papers First to use laser radiation as an excitation source in Raman spectroscopy With D. L. Wood. Ruby optical maser as a Raman source. Optical Society of America 52(3): 1962. With H. Kogelnik first to obtain Raman spectra using He-Ne continuous laser (1963) With N. Jannuzzi. New singlet transitions in the near infrared spectrum of molecular hydrogen. Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy, 11(15):378-384, 1963. With A.A. Ballman & A. Yariv. Calcium Niobate Ca(NbO3)2: a new laser host crystal. J. Appl. Physics. American Institute of Physics, 34(11): 3155 – 3136, 1963. First to observe Raman scattering from F centers With J.M. Worlock. Raman scattering by F centers. Phys. Rev. Lett. 15:697-9, 1965 Co-discovered thermal lens effect With J.P. Gordon, R.S. Moore, J.R. Whinnery & R.C. C. Leite. Long transient effects in laser with insert liquid samples. J. Appl. Physics 36:3, 1965 First to observe polaritons in ionic crystals With B. Tell & T.C. Damen. Near forward Raman scattering in zinc oxide. Phys. Rev. Lett. 16:450-2, 1966 Introduced Porto notation With T.C. Damen & B. Tell. Raman effect in zinc oxide. Phys. Rev. 142:570-4, 1966 First to observe light scattering from spin waves With P. A. Fleury, L.E. Cheesman & H.J. Guggenheim. Light scattering by spin waves in FeF2. Phys. Rev. Lett. 17:84-7, 1966 Co-discovered resonance Raman effect With R. C. C. Leite. Enhancement of the Raman cross section in Cdc due to resonant Absorption. Physical Review Letters 17:538, 1966 First to observe optical activity in Raman spectra With J.F. Scott. Longitudinal and transverse optical lattice vibrations in quartz. Phys. Rev. 161:903-10, 1967 Observed Raman cross-section of gases With A. Weber, L.E. Cheesman & J.J. Barrett. High resolution Raman spectroscopy of gases with CW-laser excitation. J. Optic Soc. Am. 5:9-28, 1967 Observed anti-symmetric electronic Raman scattering With A. Kiel, T.C. Damen, S. Singh & F. Varsanyi. Asymmetry in the electronic and phonon Raman effects in CeCl3. IEEE J. Quant. Elect. 4:318, 1968 With A. Kiel. Selection rules for electronic Raman effect. J. Molecular Spectroscopy 32(3):458-68, 1969 Observed symmetry-forbidden first-order Raman spectra in disordered solids With P.F. Williams. Symmetry-forbidden resonant Raman scattering in Cu2O. Phys. Rev. B 8:1782-5, 1973 Generalized Lyddane-Sachs-Teller relation for ordered-disordered crystals With A.S. Chaves. Generalized Lyddane-Sachs-Teller relation. Solid State Communications 13:865-8, 1973 Observed dynamic disorder in crystals using Raman scattering With A. S. Chaves & R.S. Katiyar. Coupled modes with A1 symmetry in tetragonal BaTiO3. Phys. Rev. B 10:3522-33, 1974 Discovered a process for obtaining heavy water (1979) CONTRIBUTIONS TO MEDICINE AND OTHERS With J. A. H. de Freitas et al. performed the first in the world glaucoma operation employing argon laser (1975) Developed the first in the world technique of tympanum transplant in man employing laser With L. H. Escudero, A.O. Castro, M. Drumond, D.G. Bozinis, A.F.S. Penna & E. Gallego-Lluesma. Argon laser in Human Tympanoplasty. American Medical Association 105:252, 1979 Proposed using laser for uranium isotopic separation DEVICES/PATENTS A quantitative and Easily operated x – rays detecter. May 1961 With C. A. Arguello & D.L. Rousseau. A Double beam raman spectrometer. With D. Landon. A tandem spectrometer to detect laser – exited Raman radiation. Appl. Optics. 4: 762, 1962. With R. C. C. Leite. A simple method for calibration of ruby laser output. Sep. Proc. IEEE 51(4): 1963. With C. T.Lin, T. D. Z. Atvars et al. A low cost and high efficiency helium recycling system for CO2 laser. With A. Szule, J. Pereira Neto, J. Rezende et al. Construction and perfomance of a high resolution grating spectrometer. Anais Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 1960. 32(1): 25-30, 1960. With Gary D. Boyd, Phase – Matched Raman Radiation Amplifier and Oscillator. U.S. Patent Office jan. 24, 1967. With N. Nassau & A. Yariv. Optical maser comprising the active medium CaWO4:Pr. U. S. Patent Office no 3,258,716, 258, 716. jun. 28, 1966. With W. Proffitt, L.M. Fraas & P. Cervenka. An interferometric rejection filter for Raman spectroscopy. Appl. Opt. 10:531, 1971
Santiago Pinasco
Santiago Felipe Pinasco Carreras, Argentine atomic physicist (20 May 1922 – 09 January 2006) DEVELOPED With R.A.P. Gayoso described a modified linear pulse amplifier (1958) With M. C. Kopp a micro-microammeter (1958) Transistorized linear amplifier (1960) With C. Marazzi. Electrical meter amplifier (1962) Aerial prospecting equipment for uranium (1962) With J.R.Lorenzetti a linear amplifier (1963) With J.L. Blankenship. Design of low-noise vacuum tube pulse amplifiers for semiconductor-detector spectroscopy (1965) With A. Battisto. Integrador logarítmico y medidor de período, velocidad de respuesta y fluctuación estadística (1967) Linear pulse amplifier with three tubes
Samuel Barnsley Pessoa
Samuel Barnsley Pessoa, Brazilian parasitologist and sanitarian (São Paulo 31 May 1898 – São Paulo 03 September 1976) From United States ancestry Authored 352 scientific works between papers, books and monographs Authored Parasitologia Médica / Medical Parasitology (1946), adopted in foreign institutions Presented Pessoa classification of clinical forms in schistosomiasis Developed a method for Phlebotominae capture With I.A. Sherlock. Métodos práticos para a captura de flebótomos. Rev. Bras. Biol. 24:331-40, 1964 Developed Correa-Pessoa technique for preparation of Leishmania antigens Segunda nota sobre a vacinação preventiva na leishmaniose tegumentar americana com leptomonas mortas. Rev. Assoc. Paul. Med. 19:105, 1941 With V. Amato Neto & C. Magaldi. Intradermoreação para o diagnóstico da doença de Chagas com antígeno de Trypanosoma cruzi obtido de cultura de tecido. Rev. Goiana Med. 10(3-4):121-6, 1964 DESCRIBED TAXA Genera Paraeuctenodes 1936 (Mallophaga) with Guimarães Species 27 in Protozoa 8 in Mallophaga 7 in Coleoptera 2 in Diptera 2 in Arachnida 1 in Helminths HONORS Honorary Fellow, Royal Society of Tropical Medicine Pessoaia Costa Lima 1940 & Barnsleyia Correa 1956 (Hemiptera) Pessoaiella Guimarães 1940 (Mallophaga) Pessoamyia Souza Lopes 1938 (Diptera) His son, Gil Vital Alvares Pessoa, microbiologist (São Paulo 16 November 1928 – São Paulo 01 August 2012) DEVELOPED NEW CULTURE MEDIA With E.S. Peixoto. Caldo selenito-novobiacina. Um meio de maior seletividade para o isolamento de Salmonella de fezes. Rev. Inst. Adolfo Lutz 31:1-3, 1971 With D.S. Gelli. Meio para diferenciação da tribo Proteae de outras enterobactérias. Rev. Inst. Adolfo Lutz 32:95-6, 1972 With E.A.M. Silva. Meio de Rugai e Lisina-motilidade combinadas em um só tubo para a identificação presuntiva de enterobactérias. Rev. Inst. Adolfo Lutz 32:97-100, 1972 With E.A.M. Silva. Milieu pour l’identification présomptive rapide des enterobactéries, des aeromonas et des vibrions. Ann. Microbiol. 125:341, 1974 Isolated three new Salmonella serotypes With K. Irino, C.T. Calzada, M.T. Martins & P.S. Sanchez. Isolamento de três novos sorotipos de Salmonella: Salmonella cotia, Salmonella guarapiranga e Salmonella arizonae 65:1,v:z35 de águas de superfície, em São Paulo, Brasil. Rev. Inst. Adolfo Lutz 41(1):53-5, 1981
Salvador de Toledo Piza Jr.
Salvador de Toledo Piza Jr., Brazilian entomologist and cytogeneticist (Capivari, São Paulo State 28 December 1898 – Piracicaba, São Paulo State 22 January 1988) Authored over 1200 publications between books, papers and popular articles Authored papers with international repercussion on invertebrate cytogenetics With A. Zamith reported new exceptional meiotic mechanisms or mis-meiosis (1946) Discovered diffuse centromere in Tytius bahiensis DESCRIBED ORTHOPTERA & ARACHNIDA TAXA Orthoptera Valid Genera Acrephyllum 1973 Anapolisia 1980 Balneum 1967 Beierella 1978 Bertius 1974 Choirorhynchus 1974 Ctenophorema 1967 Herbardius 1980 Megatympanon 1958 Mendesius 1960 Meneghelia 1980 Metaphotina 1964 Miroceroys 1936 Paracoelophyllum 1972 Paraviadana 1980 Pelecynotum 1967 Phanerocercus 1980 Phaneropterella 1977 Phaneropteroides 1940 Piracicaba 1967 Polyurena 1967 Tympanotriba 1971 Wattenwylia 1938 Arachnida Valid Genera Anoplogynus 1938 Cercopachylus 1940 Inhuma 1938 Paratricommatus 1943 Progonyleptiodellus 1940 Styloleptes 1943 Species Over 300 being 143 in Orthoptera HONOURS Doctor Honoris Causa, Berlin University Pizaia Terra 1982 (Orthoptera) Pizacris Souza-Dias & Desutter-Grandcolas 2015 (Orthoptera)
Sadettin Pekmezciler
Sadettin Pekmezciler, Turkish geologist and mining engineer (1907 – ?) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Permocarbonifere productif du Sud de la Turquie. Compt. Rend. V Congr. Strat. Geol. Carbonifere Paris 2:655-6, 1963 Relationship between ages and degrees of carbonization of natural coals of Turkey (1961) Introduction to the Stratigraphy of Natural Coal in Turkey (1961) A general outlook on the Turkish lignites (1955) An exploration report on the Celtek lignite. M.T.A. Special Report nº 2025 (1953) With R. Egemen. Rapport geologique sur le Carbonifere d’Amasra. M.T.A. Report nº 1636 (1945) HONORS Pekmezcileripollenites Agrali 1969 (Fossil Sporae/Pollen)
Ruy Perez Tamayo
Ruy Perez Tamayo, Mexican immunologist and pathologist (Tampico, Tamaulipas State 08 November 1924 – Ensenada, Baja California State 27 January 2022) With M. Ihnen described the effect of methionine on wounds cicatrization With R. Kretschmer performed important studies on role that antibodies play in immune rejection (1953) With I. Monfort first demonstrated the presence of collagenase in the normal myocardium (1975) With I. Monfort. Two antigenically different types of macrophages. Exp. Biol. Med. 138(1):204-7, 1971 With K.K. Jain, A.J. Braze & M.A. Shapiro presented the first report of aberrant right subclavian artery and scimitar syndrome in the same patient (2012) With A. Gonzalez, I. Montfort et al. first to trace amebopore in an in vivo model of amebic liver abscesses (2008) With E. Ramos, I. Monfort et al. first to observe apoptosis in Entamoeba histolytica (2007) With M. Selman, M. Montaño & I. Monfort. A new model of diffuse interstitial pulmonary fibrosis in the rat. Exp. Mol. Pathol. 43(3):375-87, 1985 With F. Ramos Niembro, D. Alarcón & J. Alcocer proposed the use of colchicine for treatment of sclerodermia (1979) His book Mechanisms of disease. An Introduction to Pathology (1961) was utilized by medical colleges in United States HONOURS Visiting Professor at Harvard University, Johns Hopkins, Yale, Minnesota, Chicago, Galveston and Tel Aviv Universities (1980s)