Philip Arthur Silverstone
Philip Arthur Silverstone Sopkin, US-born Colombian herpetologist and botanist (Chicago 09 October 1939 – DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Amphibia Species Adelphobates quinquevittatus 1975 Allobates ranoides 1971 Allobates zaparo 1976 Ameerega bassleri 1975 Ameerega ingeri 1975 Ameerega parvula 1975 Ameerega petersi 1976 Ameerega picta 1975 Ameerega pulchripecta 1976 Ameerega smaragdina 1976 Ameerega trivittata 1976 Andinobates altobueyensis 1975 Andinobates fulguritus 1975 Colostethus fraterdanieli 1971 Colostethus imbricolus 1975 Dendrobates tinctorius 1975 Epipedobates anthonyi 1976 Hyloxalus abditaurantius 1975 Hyloxalus lehmanni 1971 Hyloxalus ramosi 1971 Phyllobates vittatus 1975 Plantae Species Browneopsis sanintiae 2010 Dicranopygium callithrix 2004 Epidendrum torraense 2001 with Hagsater Peperomia rivulamans 2011 HONORS Silverstoneia Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo et al. 2006 (Amphibia)
Peter Seeligmann
Peter Seeligmann, Argentine plant chemist (Helsinki 10 November 1923 – San Miguel de Tucumán 1999) From German parents Authored about 70 works First reported the presence of myricetin glucosides in Asteraceae With L.R.A. Israilev & M.A.del Pero Martínez. Myricetin in Tagetes: chemosystematic significance. Phytochemistry 30:40378, 1991 Authored the most significant work in the field of chemotaxonomy and peanut until then A C-glycoside in four species of Arachis. Lilloa 33:61-8, 1970 Described the plant species Flourensia macroligulata 1960 With P. Legname & B. Mateu Amengual. Bases morfologicas quimicas que permitem justificar el reconocimiento de variedades de Acacia aroma Gill ap. H et A. (Leguminosae). Lilloa 35(2):112, 1979 Un metodo yodometrico para titular glutation en papas
Pedro Scalabrini
Pedro Scalabrini, Italian-born Argentine paleontologist and fossil collector (Como, Lombardy 21 August 1849 – Buenos Aires 24 April 1916) DESCRIBED FOSSIL SPECIES Drytomomys typicus 1889 Testudo paranensis 1884 Xenosuchuis paranensis 1887 HONORS Scalabrinitherium Ameghino 1883 (Fossil Mammalia)
Pedro Nicolas Stipanicic
Pedro Nicolas Stipanicic Villa, Argentine paleobotanist and stratigrapher (Buenos Aires 06 June 1921 – Buenos Aires 02 December 2008) Authored about 70 papers DESCRIBED FOSSIL SPECIES Plants Dictyophyllum barrealensis with Menendez Dictyophyllum castellanosi with Menendez Dictyophyllum tenuifollium 1949 with Menendez Hausmannia feltisiana with Menendez Saportaea intermedia with Bonetti Animals Notobatrachus degiustoi 1955 with Reig Xenocephalites herreroduclouxi 1966 HONORS Stipanicicia Reig 1956 (Fossil Mammalia)
Pedrito Silva
Pedrito Silva, Brazilian agricultural entomologist (Salvador 1917 – Salvador December 1990) Recognized as a world expert on cacao entomology SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Cacau e lagartão ou vassoura de bruxa. Bol. Tecn. CEPLAC 146, 1987 Combate aos insetos do cacau armazenado na Bahia. Cacau Atualidades 11(3):8-12, 1974 Informações e parecer sobre a cigarrinha dos pastos. A Granja 219:34, 1966 Tripes do cacaueiro: causador da “queima” da folha e da “ferrugem” do fruto. CEPLAC (1964) Tingídeos da Bahia. Bol. Inst. Biol. Bahia 3(1):10-77, 1960 Um novo ácaro nocivo ao tomateiro na Bahia (1954) The Coccids of Cacao in Bahia, Brazil. Bull. Entomol. Research 41(1):119-20, 1950 Controle biológico da traça do cacau pelo Microbracon hebetor (Say). Bol. Tecn. Inst. Cacau (1947) Stenoma decora Zeller (Lep. Stenomatidae): uma nova praga potencial do cacaueiro na Bahia, Brasil (1946) A formiga de enxerto (1945) Insect pests of cacao in the state of Bahia (Brazil). Trop. Agric. 21(1):8-14, 1944 Novo registro e o primeiro hospedeiro de Promasipoda pinguioides T.T. (Diptera, Exoristidae) no Brasil. Rev. Ent. 15:153-61, 1944 Novas pragas do cacaueiro no Recôncavo da Bahia HONOURS Honored in United States for his work about biological control of cacao moth (1990) Genus Silvanana Metcalf 1947 (Hemiptera)
Paulo Seabra
Paulo Seabra, Brazilian pharmacist (Resende, Rio de Janeiro State 03 January 1899 – Rio de Janeiro 02 June 1968) ACHIEVEMENTS Modified Loele staining process (Loele-Seabra method) for detecting acid-fast bacilli Oxidase and Lipase of the Leukocyte. Annals of New York acad. Sci. 59:1022-51, 1955. Developed lipase index of tuberculosis Sugestão de um cadastro lipásico para a profilaxia da tuberculose. Bol. Campanha Nac. Contra Tuberc. Junho, 1952. Lipasekataster. Zeit. Hyg. 140:573-7, 1955. Created Seabra lipasic reagent Established oxidase index, a numerical expression of the leukocytic oxidase Indice de Oxidase. Resultado de 334 determinações. Bol. Acad. Nac. Medicina 3(9):, 1939. Worked out a photo-oxidase test Developed a radiokymograph Ein Röntgenkymograph. Rev. Bras. Tuberculose 6:737-47, 1937. Contribuição para o estabelecimento de um processo para preparação do acido nítrico Um gotinyector Um radioquimógrafo Vaselina liquida como protetor anti-oxigenio Obtained colloidal cupric salts from acids of chaulmoogra oil developing 2 pharmaceutical products (Karpotran and Gadusan) that were employed in worldwide hospitals Performed important researches on biological and psychological effects of high-altitude flying Oxidase in biology and in flying research. Med. Times, 1943. Oxidase and aviation. Influence of atmospheric decompression on the blood oxidase and resistence to infection. Aviat. Med. 18:289-96, 1947. Patented Anti-rheumatic mixture and method of preparing. US2790746A (1954)