Jose Vallega
José Vallega, Italian/Argentine plant pathologist (Genoa 29 May 1909 – Rome 10 April 1978) Authored over 200 scientific papers Studied physiological races of the rusts of cereals and flax With G. Garcia Rada, W.Q. Loegering & E.C. Stakman. An usually virulent race of wheat stem rust, Nº 189. Phytopathology 32:720-6, 1942 DEVELOPED NEW VARIETIES Santa Fe (oat) Dos nuevas selecciones de trigo de origen hibrido inmunes a Puccinia glumarum. Rev. Fac. Agron. 22(1):139-45, 1937 With G. Zitelli. New selections of durum wheat bred in Italy for resistance to the principal races of stem and leaf rusts. With G. Zitelli. New high yielding Italian durum wheat varieties (1973) With G. Zittelli, B.M. Mariani & E. Biancolatte. A durum wheat of high protein content useful for breeding purposes (1978) HONOURS E.C. Stakman Award, University of Minnesota (USA) 1960
Jose Ribeiro do Valle
José Ribeiro do Valle, Brazilian pharmacologist (Guaxupé, Minas Gerais State 15 August 1908 – São Paulo 19 December 2000) Demonstrated the presence of yellow bodies of ovary in non-venomous ovoviviparous snakes and reported original observations about endocrine glands in these vertebrates With P.R. Souza. Observações sobre o sistema endócrino dos ofídios. Rev. Bras. Biol. 2:81-8, 1942 Demonstrated the presence of androgens in testicles and estrogen in ovaries of Crotalidae With Luiz A. Ribeiro do Valle. Gonadal hormones in snakes. Science 97(2522):400, 1943 First observed the triple effect, an early indication of reactive vasoconstrictor in peripheral vascular beds following 9-THC injection With S.W. Siqueira & A.J. Lapa. The triple effect induced by Δ 9-tetrahydrocannabinol on the rat blood pressure. Europ. J. Pharmacol. (1979) Proposed relative responsiveness or rho ratio a new parameter for classification of receptor system, which measures the capability of a receptor system to induce a maximal contraction after saturation by a full agonist With A. Jurkiewicz, N.H. Jurkiewicz & G.G. Barros. Relative responsiveness (ρ) of pharmacological receptor systems in the rat vas deferens. Pharmacology 2:89-99, 1969 Proposed a model of mice cage named EPM With J. Leal Prado. Modelo prático de gaiola para ratos em experimentação. Cien. Cult. 1:116, 1949 Authored important studies about the action of hormones on motricity of genital muscles Farmacologia do Canal Deferente e da Vesícula seminal de cobaia (Papel dos hormônios sexuais) With L.C.U. Junqueira. Motility and pharmacological reactivity of genitals of vitamin E deficiente rats. Endocrinology 40:316-21, 1940 With T.H. & A. Porto. Contractilite et reactions pharmacologiques des canaux deferents et des vesicules des rats castres et traites par les hormones sexuelles. Comptes Rendus des Seances de la Societe de Biologie et de (1938) With T.H. Martins. Contractilite, survie et pharmacologic in vitro de l’epididyme humain, Compt. rend. Soc. biol. 129: 1152, 1938. With T.H. Martins. Contractilite et pharmacologie comparee in vitro des canaux deferents de Macacus rhesus normaux, castres ou injected d’hormones sexuelles’. C. R. Soc. Biol, Paris, 129:1122-5 (1938) With T.H. Martins. Endocrine control of the motility of the male accessory genital organs. Endocrinology 25:80-90 (1939) DEVELOPED METHODS Proposed using pigeons with crop fistula for quantitative assay of prolactin Test para a prolactina baseado em frottis da mucosa do papo de pombo (1937) Ovarian hyperemia in the immature rat as a pregnancy test in equids. Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. Med. 66(2):352-4, 1947 With Z. P. Picarrelli, R. Kupper, E.S. Prado & J.L. Prado. Assay of renin and hypertension with the isolated guinea-pig ileum. Circ. Res. 2(4):354-8, 1954 With J. Leal Prado developed a method or test for pregnandiol (Leal-Valle method) HONOURS Honorable Mention, American Psychological Association for his work With T. Martins. Hormonal regulation of the micturition behavior of the dog. J. Comp. Phys. Psych. 41(5):301-11, 1948 His second spouse Zuleika Pentone Picarelli Ribeiro do Valle, pharmacologist (São Paulo 02 May 1926 – São Paulo 03 April 2016) With J.H. Gaddum discovered the existence of multiple serotoninergic receptors (1956) With J. Gaddum first classified and recognized distinct 5-HT receptors called M & D (1957) With J. Ribeiro do Valle wrote a book chapter about the venom from bristles of urticant caterpillars in Venomous animals and their venoms from W. Bucherl & E. Buckley (1971)
Jose Mariano da Conceicao Velloso
José Mariano da Conceição Velloso, Brazilian / Portuguese Franciscan friar, publisher and naturalist (Tiradentes, Minas Gerais State 15 August 1742 – Rio de Janeiro 13 July 1811) His real name was José Vellozo Xavier (some sources give October 14, 1742 as his birth date) Collected animal, plant and mineral specimens in the Province of Rio de Janeiro (1783-90) Authored Florae Fluminensis (1790, but published posthumously only in 1825-7) in which described many genera and species of Brazilian flora DESCRIBED VALID TAXA (1825-7) Genera Ravenia Leretia Chresta Schwartzia Cleobula Lamanonia Hilleria Dulacia Joannesia Subgenus Trigonocarpus Incertae sedis Ivonia Species At least 163 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Alographia dos alkalis fixos, vegetal ou potassa, mineral ou soda, e dos seus nitratos (1793) Diccionario Portuguez e Brasiliano (1795) Memórias, e extractos sobre a pipereira negra (Piper nigrum) que produz o fructo conhecido vulgarmente pelo nome de pimenta da India (1798) Memória sobre a cultura do loureiro cinamono, vulgo caneleira de Ceilão, que acompanhou a remessa das plantas da mesma feita de Goa para o Brasil (1798) Quinografia portuguesa: ou collecção de várias memórias sobre vinte e duas espécies de quinas, tendentes ao seu descobrimento nos vastos domínios do Brasil (1799) O Fazendeiro do Brazil (an 11-volume rural encyclopedia) 1799-1806 Relação das moedas dos paizes estrangeiros com o valor de cada huma, reduzido ao dinheiro portuguez para o uso dos comerciantes (1800) Aviario Brazilico ou Galeria Ornithologica das aves índigenas do Brazil (1800) Extracto sobre os engenhos de assucar do Brasil, sobre o methodo já então praticado na factura deste sal essencial (1800) Instrucções para o transporte por mar de arvores, plantas vivas, sementes e de outras diversas curiosidades naturaes (1805) Descriptio et adumbratio plantarum classe criptogamica Linnei, Lichenes dicuntur Descripção de vários peixes do Brazil Tratado da navegação por canais HONORS Mycovellosiella Rangel 1917 (Fungi) Vellosiella Baillon 1887 (Scrophulariaceae)
Jose Maria Velasco
José Maria Tranquilino Francisco de Jesus de Velasco Gomez, Mexican landscape painter, scientific illustrator and naturalist (Temascalcingo, Mexico State 06 July 1840 – Ciudad de Mexico 26 August 1912) AUTHORED Research about anatomy and metamorphosis of axolotl in which described Siredon tigrina (named Ambystoma velasci later) Descripción, metamorphosis y costumbres de una especie nueva del género Siredon, encontrada em el lago de Santa Isabel, cerca de la Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo, Valle de Mexico. La Naturaleza 4:209-33, 1879 Anotaciones y observaciones al trabajo del sr. August Weismann sobre la transformación del ajolotle mexicano em Amblystoma. La Naturaleza 5:58-84, 1880 With I. Velasco. Estudios sobre una nueva espécie de falsa jalapa de Querétaro Ipomoea triflora. La Naturaleza 1:338-42, 1870 Estudio sobre la família de las cactáceas de Mexico. La Naturaleza 1:201-3, 1870 HONORS Velascoa Calderón & Rzedowski 1997 (Plantae)
Jose Maria Vargas
José Maria de Las Dolores Vargas Ponce, Venezuelan statesman, physician, naturalist and chemist (La Guaira 10 March 1786 – New York 13 July 1854) He was owner of a mineral collection, a herbarium, a chemical laboratory and the best private library of his country With José da Cruz Limardo obtained alkaloids from Cinchona species Collected more than 800 plant specimens from Venezuela and Caribbean islands that sent to herbaria of De Candolle family (Geneve), Smithsonian Institution and New York Botanical Garden SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Medicine Memoria sobre el mal de Lazaro (with J.J. Hernandez) Memoria sobre los aneurismas (1828) Memoria sobre los nervios cervicales y de los cardíacos observados en un loco (1828) Memoria sobre el dengue (1828) Monografia sobre casos practicos de insectos en las fosas nasales (1828) Memoria sobre los perjuicios de la pesca, por médio de barbasco, y otros venenos (1828) Memoria sobre dos fetos monstruosos (1828) Memoria sobre um aneurisma de la artéria hepática (1828) Memoria sobre uma singular distribución de los ureteres, observada em um cadáver disecado em el anfiteatro de la classe de Anatomia (1829) Descripción de una ptósis en el ojo derecho de un hombre (1829) Memoria sobre el cólera morbus (1831) Monografia sobre la epilepsia (1831) Instrucción popular sobre el cólera (1832) Manual de Cirurgia (1841) Botany Organografia Observaciones sobre el sistema de Linneo Plantas útiles de Venezuela y Puerto Rico Monografia sobre las gramíneas OFFICE President of Venezuela (09 February – 09 July 1835; 20 August 1835-24 April 1836) HONORS Elected Member, Royal College of Surgeons of London (1810s) Genus Vargasia Bertero 1825 (Sapindaceae)
Jose Antonio Valdes Anciano
José Antonio Felix de la Caridad Valdés y Anciano, Cuban neurologist (Matanzas 31 March 1867 – La Habana 10 March 1923) First reported a generalized hereditary emphysema Enfisema generalizado de caracter familiar (1896) Reported the youngest patient with acromegaly Acromegalia en un negro de 14 años. Presse Medicale (1897) First in the world to use antidiphteric serum for treating other diseases beyond diphtheria Un caso de bronquitis seudo-membranosa, estafilocóccica, sin bacilos de Loeffler, tratado com êxito por el suero de Roux (1897) First reported the coexistence of pseudohypertrophic myopathy and Friedrich disease in the same patient Enfermedad de Friedrich y miopatia pseudohipertrofica coexistentes en un mesmo individuo. Rev. Med. Cubana 3:125, 1904 First reported the coexistence of chronic trophoedema and acromegaly Trofoedema cronico pseudoelefantiasico en un negro acromegalico. Rev. Med. Cubana 9:15, 1906 Enunciated a new theory about mitral functional narrowness With Filomeno Rodríguez Acosta Nueva teoría sobre la estrechez mitral funcional. Rev. Med. Cubana 21:61, 1912 HONOURS Foreigner Associated Member, Medic Psychological Society, Paris (1910) Correspondent Member, Neurological Society of Philadelphia (1906) Honorary Member, Societé Medecine Mentale de Belgique LINKS http://www.revmatanzas.sld.cu/revista%20medica/ano%202007/vol1%202007/tema17.htm (in Spanish)