Anita Wajntal
Anita Wajntal, Brazilian geneticist (14 July 1937 – DESCRIBED SYNDROMES AND OTHERS CONTRIBUTIONS With D. Moretti-Ferreira, C.P. Koiffmann, M. Listik & N. Setian. Macrossomia, obesity, macrocephaly and ocular abnormalities (MOMO syndrome) in two unrelated patients: delineation of a newly recognized overgrowth syndrome. Am, J. Med. Genet. 46:555-8, 1993 With D. Moretti-Ferreira, C.R. Mingroni-Netto, R.C.M. Pavanello, B.B. Mendonça & A.J. Diament. A criança macrossômica II: provável síndrome nova. Cien. Cult. 40:835, 1988 With I.J. Cavalli, I.J. Sbalqueiro & N. Freire-Maia. A 15/17 translocation in a patient with Prader-Labhart-Willi syndrome. Human Heredity 32(3):149-51, 1982 (first report of this kind of translocation in this syndrome) With J. Roizenblatt & A.J. Diament. Median cleft face syndrome or frontonasal dysplasia: a case report with associated kidney malformation. Pediatr. Ophthalm. Strabismus 16(1):16-20, 1979 (first case report of median cleft face syndrome associated with renal agenesia) DEVELOPED METHODS/MODELS With F.S. Raposo do Amaral & F.H. Sheldon. Towards an assessment of character interdependence in avian RNA phylogenetics: a general secondary structure model for the avian mitochondrial 16S rRNA. Mol. Phylog. Evol. 56:498-506, 2010 With R. de Mars. A tetrazolium method for distinguishing between cultured human fibroblasts having either normal or deficient levels of glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase. Biochem. Genet. 1(1):61-4, 1967 ORNITHOLOGY Proposed the avian genera Cryptoleucopteryx & Amadonastur 2009 with Raposo do Amaral, Sheldon, Gamauf, Haring, Riesing & F.L. Silveira
Andres Weber
Andrés George Weber y de Torres, Cuban odontologist (Guanabacoa, La Habana 31 December 1870 – La Habana 12 November 1950) From German father Authored over 300 scientific works between them Bibliographiae Stomatologicae (1922) and Bibliographia odontologica. Rev. Dent. Habana 10:321-32, 1917 His Bibliographia dentalis (1909) obtained gold medal in international congress of field at Berlin Had the most complete classification of world’s odontological bibliography and some 20,000 items in dentistry Founder, Federation Dentale Internationale (1900) Received posthumously International Miller Prize, Federeation Dentale International (1952)
Alvaro Wille Trejos
Alvaro Wille Trejos, Costa Rican entomologist (San Jose 17 May 1928 – San Jose 11 June 2006) From German ancestry A technique for collecting stingless bees under jungle conditions. Insectes Sociaux 9(3):291-3, 1962 With C.D. Michener, E.A. Cross, H.V. Daly & C.W. Rettenmeyer. Additional techniques for studying the behaviour of wild bees. Insectes Sociaux 2:237-46, 1955 Coauthored a monumental work on the nest architecture of stingless bees With C.D. Michener. The nest architecture of stingless bees with special reference to those of Costa Rica (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Rev.Biol. Trop. 21(Suppl1):1-278, 1973 DESCRIBED HYMENOPTERA TAXA Species Fossil Proplebeia silacea 1959 Trigonia (Liotrigonia) dominicana 1964 with Chandler Living Plebeia tica 1969 Tetragonisca costaricensis 1962 Trigonia (Plebeia) intermedia 1960 Trigonisca discolor 1965 HONORS Meliwillea Camargo, Lobo & Roubik 1997 (Hymenoptera) LINKS www.ots.ac.cr/tropiweb/attachments/volumes/vol54-4/00-4-Obituario%20A.%20Wille.pdf
Alpheus Fuller Williams
Alpheus Fuller Williams, US-born South African mining engineer (Oakland, Alameda County, California 21 June 1874 – Cape Town 06 January 1953) With J. Parry & F.E. Wright described mineral species bultfonteinite (1932) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY The Genesis of the diamond. A geological, mineralogical, crystallographical, petrographical and chemical study of kimberlite and its associated, cognate and accidental inclusions (1932) Diamond-bearing alluvial gravels of the union of South Africa. Brit. Empire Mining Metal. Congr. Handbook (1930) HONORS Afwillite Parry & Wright 1925 (Mineral)
Ahmed Hassan Wahba
Ahmed Hassan Wahba, Egyptian bacteriologist (Berlin, Germany 15 December 1922 – ?) Metallic sheen in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Nature 204:502, 1964 Developed a new type of cholera vaccine Developed and modified methods Vibriocine production in the cholera and El Tor vibrios. Bull. World Health Organ. 33(5):661-4, 1965 Wih J. H. Darrell. Pyocine-typing of hospital strains of Pseudomonas pyocyanea. J. Clin. Path. 17:236-42, 1964 The production and inactivation of pyocines. J. Hyg. 61(4):431-41, 1963 With O.M. Lidwell. A simple apparatus for colicine typing. Appl. Bacteriol. 26:246, 1963 With V. Takla. A new chemical flocculation test for cholera vibrio identification. Bull. World Health Organ. 26(2):306-8, 1962 With V. Takla. Semi-synthetic media for the cultivation of bacteria. J. Minist. Health 1(4):89-91, 1960
Abraham Willink
Abraham Willink, Dutch-born Argentine entomologist (Drachten, Friesland Province 13 January 1920 – San Miguel de Tucumán 08 February 1998) DESCRIBED HYMNENOPTERA TAXA Genera Araucodynerus 1968 Carlobembix 1958 Cuyodynerus 1968 Incodynerus 1968 Species About 75 HONORS Willinkia Bondar 1949 (Coleoptera) Willinkiella Menke 1968 (Hymenoptera) Willinkapis Moure 1953 (Hymenoptera)