Manuel Uribe Troncoso
Manuel Uribe Troncoso, Mexican / US ophthalmologist (Toluca 17 June 1876 – New York 21 January 1959) Considered as world authority on eye physiology and diseases Authored over 170 papers Authored important studies about iridocorneal angle First to study aqueous humor circulation in living animals and the influence of its chemical constitution Described the basal layer of iris processes METHODS Suggested new techniques for treatment of glaucoma Described cyclodyalisis with implantation of magnesium Cyclodyalisis with insertion of a metal implant in the treatment of glaucoma: A preliminary report. Arch. Ophth. 23:270-300, 1940 New methods of examination of the angle of the anterior chamber. Arch. Ophthal. 50:364, 1921 DEVELOPED A monocular self-iluminating gonioscope (1925) A binocular gonioscope (1942) A binocular corneal microscope A “demonstration eye” for refraction anomalies An apparatus for measuring ocular anterior chamber angle New model of schematic eye for skiascopy (retinoscopy) and ophthalmoscopy. Am. J. Ophthal. 5:436, 1922 A new model of contact glass for gonioscopy (goniolens). Am. J. Ophth. 28:1360, 1945
Manuel Urbina
Manuel Urbina y Altamirano, Mexican physician and botanist (Ciudad de Mexico 07 September 1843 – Ciudad de Mexico 19 July 1906) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Notas acerca de los amoles de Hernandez. Naturaleza 3:118-30, 1910 Granos de polen de oyametl. Anales Museo Nac. Mexico 3(3):293-7, 1906 Raices comestibles entre los antiguos mexicanos. Anales Museo Nac. Mexico 3(2):117-90, 1906 Notas acerca de los ayotli de Hernandez o calabazas indigenas. Anales Museo Nac. Mexico 7:353-90, 1903 Los zapotes de Hernandez. Anales Museo Nac. Mexico 7:209-34, 1903 Los amates de Hernandez o higueras mexicanas. Anales Museo Nac. Mexico 7:93-114, 1903 Notas acerca de los tzauhtli u orquídeas mexicanas. Anales Museo Nac. Mexico 7:54-68, 1903 El peyote y el ololiuhqui. Anales Museo Nac. Mexico 7:25-48, 1903 Notas acerca de los amoles mexicanos (1899) Catalogo de plantas mexicanas (Fanerógamas) 1897 Notas acerca de los copales de Hernandez y las burseráceas mexicanas. Anales Museo Nac. Mexico 4:98-121, 1897 La chía y sus aplicaciones (1887) HONORS Urbinella Greenman 1904 (Asteraceae)
Lorenzo Uribe
Antonio Lorenzo Uribe y Uribe, Colombian botanist (Medellín 20 January 1900 – Bogotá 08 December 1980) Son of naturalista José Joaquín Uribe Authored about 40 papers Collected Lepidopteran and Coleopteran species DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE SPECIES Adelobotrys linearifolia 1966 Aristolochia antennifera 1955 Aristolochia claveriana 1955 Blakea allotricha 1971 Blakea fissicalyx 1980 Blakea longipes 1980 Blakea mitrata 1971 Blakea squamigera 1975 Blakea valenzuelae 1957 Centronia dichromantha 1965 Clidemia anoriensis 1977 Draba litamo 1948 Drymonia variegata 1952 Ernestia adenotricha 1962 Huilaea macrocarpa 1966 Huilaea minor Huilaea mutisiana 1969 Inga capsellata 1943 Inga coragypsea 1943 Inga dolichantha 1942 Inga ellsworthiana 1947 Inga guamito 1943 Inga interfluminensis 1943 Inga medellinensis 1945 Inga microgyna 1945 Inga ouraphylla 1947 Inga pilosa 1941 Inga psittacorum 1945 Inga samanensis 1952 Inga urabensis 1947 Meriania antioquensis 1969 Meriania hernandoi 1969 Meriania peltata 1962 Meriania versicolor 1962 Miconia aguirrei 1977 Miconia alborosea 1969 Miconia cionotricha 1964 Miconia cleefii 1975 Miconia eremita 1962 Miconia laetevirens 1966 Miconia lithophila 1975 Miconia orescia 1966 Miconia poecilantha 1964 Miconia sciurea 1966 Miconia wurdackii 1969 Monolena elliptica 1960 Monolena lanceolata 1979 Monolena pilosiuscula 1960 Monolena pygmaea 1961 Passiflora albicans 1958 Passiflora arbelaezii 1957 Passiflora azeroana 1955 Passiflora crispolanata 1954 Topobea calcarata 1971 Topobea rhodantha 1975 HONORS Uribea Dugand & Romero 1962 (Fabaceae)
Leopoldo Uichanco
Leopoldo Bancain Uichanco, Philippine entomologist (Calamba, Laguna 23 April 1894 – 23 February 1972) Achieved international renown for his work on aphids and migratory locusts DESCRIBED HEMIPTERA TAXA Genus Haplaphalaria 1921 Species Anomoterga kleinhofiae 1921 Asphondylia grewiae 1919 Ectenus spinosus 1950 Itonida paederiae 1919 Leptynoptera sulfurea 1921 Haplaphalaria dahli 1921 Paurocephala maculipennis 1921 Pauropsylla deflexa 1919 Pauropsylla montana 1919 Trioza pallida 1919 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Probable relation to altitude of the mound-building habit of Macrotermes (Macrotermes ailvus (Hagen)). Philip. Jour Sci. 90(2):215-8, 1961 A method of mounting epiphytic orchids (1949) Insect defoliators on Cinchona in Mindanao. Philipp. J. Forestry 3(1):45-50, 1940 A progress report on the ecology of probable outbreak centers of the migratory locust in the Philippines. Bull. Nat. Res. Count (1939) How to make nata de piña (1939) Insects in the Philippine folkore. Philip. Agric. 26:485-99, 1937 With R.B. Gines. A biometrical study of the adult components of the Philippine locust swarms. Philipp. Agric. 26(3):237-89, 1937 Tolerance of mealybugs to drying of host tissue. Philippine Agr. 23:886-90, 1935 A twenty-five year balance sheet for economic entomology. Philipp. Agric. Sci. 23:419-29, 1934 With S.R. Capco. Effect of various methods of storing corn on the degree of damage due to weevils. Philipp. Agriculturist 22:653-68, 1933-4 With F.E. Villanueva. Biology of the pink mealybug of sugarcane Trionymus sacchari (Cockerell) in the Philippines. Philip. Agric. 21:205-76, 1932 Notes on the life history and habitats of the white grub of sugarcane, Leucopholis irrorata Chev. Sugar News 12:592-4, 1931 Water and oil treatment against soil inhabiting termites and ants. Philip. Agr. 19(9), 1931 Emulsión de alquitrán: uso como insecticida. Philip. Agric. 19(8):501, 1931 A summary of insects affecting rice in the Philippines (1929) Factors affecting periodicity in the abundance of certain forms of terrestrial life in the Philippines. Phil. Agr. 15(7):403-8, 1926 Studies on the embryogeny and postnatal development of the Aphididae with special reference to the history of the “symbiotic organ” or “mycetoma”. Philip. J. Sci. 24:143-247, 1924 Reproduction in the Aphididae with a consideration of the modifying influence of environmental factors. Psyche 28:95-109, 1921 Musculature and mechanisms of movement of the tarsi in Aphids. Psyche 28:63-8, 1921 General factors in the biology of Philippine mound-building termites. Philip. J. Science 15:59-66, 1919 Certain pests of coconuts in the Philippines, with suggestions for their control HONORS Uichancoella Calilung 1975 (Hemiptera)
Julio Vicente Uriburu
Julio Vicente Juan Uriburu Medici, Argentine surgeon and breast expert (Buenos Aires 17 November 1911 – Buenos Aires 09 February 2008) BREAST Developed a classification for mammarian dysplasias Described the focusing juvenile proliferative dysplasia With A.M. Mosto & M.A. Gómez. Displasia proliferative juvenile focalizada. Prensa Med. Arg. 62:172-6, 1975 Enunciated criteria for surgery of breast cancer Operability indications and selection of technic in breast cancer. Prensa Med. Argent. 57(29):1430-4, 1970 Authored La Mama: Estructura, Patologia, Diagnostico y Tratamiento translated into English language as The Breast (1977) SURGERY With D. E. Zavaleta. Procedure for the treatnment of eventrations. Prensa Med. Argent. 38(35):2187-91, 1951 With D. Zavaleta developed a procedure to repair hernias using free full-thickness grafts (1950) With R. Finochietto. Tecnica de la descapsulación renal por anuria. Prensa Med. Argent. 35(38):1804-9, 1948 With R. Finocchietto & N.V. Turco. Tecnica de la vaguectomia toracica o supradiafragmatica. Dia Medico 20:700-2, 1948 With R. Garriz. Tecnica operatoria para hernia umbilical utilizando injerto de piel. Prensa Med. Argent. 35:717, 1948 Small mixed parotid tumour. Technic of extirpation (1946) His father, Julio Vicente Uriburu Demaria, dermatologist (Buenos Aires 09 July 1881 – Buenos Aires 02 August 1950) Described and isolated Microsporum fulvum, a fungus of pathogenic relevance (1909)
Julio Urbina
Julio Alberto Urbina Romero, Venezuelan parasitologist and biochemist (c. 1947 – Authored over 150 papers Found a number of new drugs with potent in vitro and in vivo effects on Trypanosoma cruzi and other prasites such as novel azasterols, quinuclidine based inhibitors, new triazole derivatives and new-metal clotrimazole complexes Established that amiodarone has effect on trypanosomiasis Developed the utilization of ergosterol synthesis inhibitors against Trypanosoma cruzi With N.M. Rodríguez, B.N. Bailey, M.B. Martin, E. Oldfield & R. Docampo. Radical cure of experimental cutaneous leishmaniasis by the bisphosphonate pamidronate. J. Infect. Dis. 186(1):138-40, 2002 Obtained the first reports of parasitological cure of Chagas disease in its chronic phase (2000) Obtained the first demonstration of radical parasitological cure in an animal model of chronic Chagas disease With G. Payares, J. T. Molina, C. Sanoja, A. Liendo, K. Lazardi, M.M. Piras, R. Piras, N. Perez, P. Winckler & J.F. Ryley. Cure of short and long-term experimental Chagas disease using D0870. Science 273 (5277):969-71, 1996 First detailed study of the sterol composition and metabolism in intracellular Trypanosoma cruzi amastigotes With A. Liendo, G. Visbal, M.M. Piras & R. Piras. Sterol composition and biosynthesis in Trypanosoma cruzi amastigotes. Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 104 (1):81-91, 1999 Developed a new nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic method to investigate order and dynamics in phospholipids With B. Moreno, W. Arnold, C. Taron, P. Orlean & E. Oldfield. A carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic study of inter-proton pair order parameters: a new approach to study order and dynamics in phospholipid membrane systems. Biophys. J. 75(3):1372-83, 1998 HONOURS Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Scientific Research Scholar (2000-5)