Paulo Sawaya
Paulo Sawaya, Brazilian comparative physiologist and marine zoologist (Carmo do Rio Claro, Minas Gerais State 11 September 1903 – São Paulo 29 October 1995) Son of Lebanese immigrants Authored over 300 publications Described muscle anomalies With O.M. de Sousa. Duas anomalias musculares: M. condroepitocleano e m. acessório da cavidade orbitária. Rev. Med. 39:37-48, 1926 DESCRIBED ANIMAL TAXA Thyone naideae 1955 with Ancona Lopez (Echinodermata) Siphonops annulatus marmoratus & Siphonops paulensis maculatus 1937 (Amphibia) Balanoglossus eufrosinoi 1953 with Forneris Balanoglossus nonatoi 1953 with Forneris Balanoglossus catharinensis 1953 with Forneris Pleurobranchus gigas 1972 with Grempel (Mollusca) Researches about comparative physiology, biochemistry and morphology Performed studies with pharmacological approach in animal physiology Demonstrated a cardiotoxic protein compound (siphonopsin) from nasal mucosa of Siphonops Sobre o veneno das glândulas cutâneas, a secreção e o coração de Siphonops annulatus. Bol. Fac. Cien.Letras Univ. S. Paulo 4:207-70, 1940 On a bioassay for acetylcholine and on some properties of the longitudinal muscles of Holothuria grisea (Echinodermata).Bol. Fac. Filos. Cien. Letras U. São Paulo (ser. Zool.) 24(24), 1962 With G.A. Edwards and the couple Souza Santos found that muscles from different regions of the insect present differences in fibrillar structure and that the insect fibril differs considerably from that of vertebrate (1953) Described a technique of induced aestivation With N. Shinomyia. Biologia da Tambaki-m’boya, Lepidosiren paradoxa (Fitz, 1836). Bol. Zool. Biol. Mar. NS 29:1-44, 1972 With R.Y. Tsukamoto, N.S. Takahashi & F. Takashima. A modified silver impregnation procedure for ploidy assessment in fish (1987) An incretory organ in the head of Ligia exotica Roux (Crustacea Isopoda). Proc. 8th Amer. Sci. Congr. 3:487-90, 1942 Discovered a new organ in Plecostomus sp. Sobre um órgão novo do peixe cascudo (Plecostomus) e sua provável função. Ci. Cult 12(2):87, 1960 & 13, 1961 Discovered a new function of uro-pituitary in teleostean fishes With O.F. Martins. Uma nova função da urohipófise de peixes teleósteos. C. Cult. 19, 1967 Proposed Ogcocephalus vespertilio as lab animal for studies of breathing physiology With M. Grempel. O peixe morcego (Ogcocephalus vespertilio), material adequado para estudos de fisiologia da respiração (1978) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With O. Machado de Sousa. Capillares sanguíneos intraepitheliaes na mucosa da urethra humana. Bol. Soc. Med. Cir. S. Paulo 11(6-7), 1928 Annotações craneológicas. I. Participação do vômer à constituição do paladar duro em um Cebus macrocephalus Spix. Ann. Fac. Med. S. Paulo 10(2), 1934 Sobre a mudança de cor nos crustáceos. Bol. Fac. Filos. Cien. Letras Univ. S. Paulo 13:1-109, 1939 The tail of a fish larva as a respiratory organ. Nature 149:169-70, 1942 Metabolismo respiratório de anfíbio Gymnophiona, Typhlonectes compressicauda (Dum. et Bibr.). Bol. Fac. Filos. Cien. Let. Univ. São Paulo, 1947 Contribuição para a fisiologia do aparelho de apreensão dos alimentos e da glândula do intestino médio de ostracodo. Ação de substâncias colinérgicas (1949) With N. Ambache. Use of Holothuria grisea for acetylcholine assays of electric organ extracts from Narcine braziliensis (Olfers). Physiol. Comp. Oecol. 3:53-6, 1953 With G.A. Edwards, P. de Souza Santos & H.L. de Souza Santos. Electron microscope studies of insect muscle. Flight and coxal muscle of Hydrophilus piceus. Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. 47:343-54, 1954 With H.L. de Souza Santos, G.A. Edwards & P. de Souza Santos. Electron microscopy of insect tracheal structures. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 26:309-15, 1954 With R.S. Pereira. Contribution a l’etude de la composition chimique du sang de certains selaciens du Bresil (1957) With R.S. Pereira. Ions in the blood of elasmobranchs. Bol. Fac. Filos. Cien. Univ. S. Paulo Zool. 21:85-92, 1957 With B. Oliveira Filho & P. Souza Santos. A organização submicroscópica do músculo longitudinal de Holothuria. Cien. Cult. 11:152, 1959 With L.M.Petrini. Sobre a presença de cloaca e respiração intestinal no cascudo (Loricariidae: Plecostomus plecostomus (Linn.). Bol. Fac. Filos. Cien. Letras Univ. S. Paulo Zool. 1(23): 5-20, 1960 With J. Khouri. A miogenia do coração de moluscos (Mytilus perna). Cien. Cult. 15(4):279, 1963 With F.B. de Jorge, J.A. Petersen & A.S. Ditadi. Iodine accumulation by Balanoglossus gigas. Science 150(3700):1182-3, 1965 With F.B. de Jorge, A.S.F. Ditadi, J.A. Petersen & A.B. Ulhoa Cintra. Biochemical studies on the giant earth worm Glossoscolex giganteus (Leuckart). Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 16:491-6, 1965 With K. Johansen & A.W. Martin. Some circulatory characteristics of the three-toad sloth, Bradypus tridactylus. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias (1966) With I.N. Cipolli. Ação do calico e efeito das drogas sobre o músculo liso despolarizado de moluscos opistobrânquios. Cien. Cult. (1967) Aspectos interessantes do encéfalo de grandes peixes da família Siluridae (Jaú, pintado e Mandi) dos rios do Estado de s. Paulo. Cien. Cult. 19(2):350, 1967 With A.L.V. Favaretto, S.O. Petenusci & R.J. Lopes. Determinação do volume sanguíneo em condições aéreas de cascudo Plecostomus regani (Ihering, 1905). Pisces, Loricariidae. Biologica 2(1):30, 1976 With M.V. Val Sella & F. Fava de Moraes. Cell types and glycoprotein cytochemistry in the carp adenohypophysis (Cyprinus carpio L.). Cell. Mol. Biol. 3:225-31, 1978 With J. Boschini Jr., Ocorrencia de microplacas escamóides na epiderme de Typhlonectes compressicaudus (Dumeril et Bibron, 1841), Amphibia Apoda (1978) With R. Spiropulos Piccolo. Blood vascular and respiratory systems of Synbranchus marmoratus Bloch, 1795 (Air breathing teleost fish). Some morphological and physiological aspects. Bol. Fisiol. Animal Univ. São Paulo 5:59-73, 1981 With P. Pasquarelli & E.G. Mendes. The action of parotoid venom on the heart of the toad (Bufo ictericus ictericus Spix 1824) and its effects on the inhibition caused by vagal stimulation. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 87(2):393-9, 1987 Sobre a histophysiologia dos órgãos excretores de alguns insectos HONORS Sawayaella Marcus 1939 (Protozoa: Apicomplexa) Paulosawaya Martínez & D’Andretta 1957 (Coleoptera) Palmes Académiques (France)
Pandurang Vasudeo Sukhatme
Pandurang Vasudeo Sukhatme, Indian biostatistician (Satara District, Maharashtra State 27 July 1911 – Pune, Maharashtra State 28 January 1997) Authored over 200 papers Showed that any U-statistic with a bounded kernel from a distribution whose density function is continuous at the median is bivariate normal (1957) Proposed formulae for the estimation of required sample size (1970) With Sheldon Margen formulated Sukhatme-Margen hypothesis “at low levels of calorie intake, energy is used with greater metabolic efficiency and efficiency is decreased as the intake increases over the applicable range” DEVELOPED Statistical models for assessing the dimensions of hunger and future food supplies in the world Methods for measuring the size and nature of the protein gap Scientific techniques of random sampling in crop cutting surveys for the estimation of crop production Likelihood ratio tests (1936) EPONYMY Sukhatme theorem (1937) Darling-Sukhatme theorem (1972) Sukhatme test (1957) Sukhatme d-statistic
P.P. Satsangi
P.P. Satsangi, Indian paleontologist (fl.1961-2000) DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Genus Babiacetus 1984 with Trivedy (Mammalia) Species Babiacetus indicus 1984 with Trivedy (Mammalia) Ceratodus nageshwarai 1970 with Shah (Pisces) Ebalia spinosa 1997 with Tiwari & Barman (Crustacea) Geoemyda pilgrimi 1963 with Prasad (Reptilia) Lystrosaurus rajurkari 1963 with Tripathi (Reptilia) Neptunus sijuensis 1980 with Parida (Crustacea) Palaeocarpilius bispinosus 1989 with Changkakoti (Crustacea) Thrinaxodon bengalensis 1987 (Mammalia) OTHERS CONTRIBUTIONS A new mammal-like reptile from the Lower Triassic of India. Rec. Geol. Survey Ind. (1973) Some new plant fossils from the Panchet Formation of Raniganj Formation Coalfield. Ind. Miner. 27(3):76-8, 1973 HONORS (Fossil) Satsangia Srivastava & Maheshwari 1973 (Plantae) Satsangisaccites Bharadwaj & Srivastava 1969 (Sporae)
P.C. Suratman
P.C. Suratman, Indonesian physicist and engineer Eponym of Suratman number or Laplace number With P. Van der Leeden & l.D. Nio. The velocity of free falling droplets. Appl. Sci. Res. Sect. A 5(5):338-48, 1955
Otto Schubart
Otto Rudolf Julius Schubart, German-born Brazilian zoologist (Berlin 17 February 1900 – Campinas, São Paulo State 08 November 1962) World authority on Diplopoda DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Diplopoda Genera 38 Species About 200 Myriapoda Genera 63 Crustacea (with Szidat 1960) Genus Philostomella Species Philostomella cigarra Riggia brasiliensis Riggia nana Telothia silurii Pisces Valid Species Cetopsorhamdia iheringi 1959 with Gomes Chasmocranus brachynemus 1958 with Gomes Hypostomus fluviatilis 1964 Hypostomus nigromaculatus 1964 Phenacorhamdia tenebrosa 1964 HONORS Schubartia Verhoeff 1927 (Myriapoda) Schubartesia Soares 1944 (Arachnida) Schubartina Lawrence 1937 (Diplopoda) Brasiloschubartia Jeekel 1963 (Diplopoda) Subgenus Schubartella Viets 1937(Acari)
Oswaldo Sala
Oswaldo Sala, Brazilian spectroscopist (Bauru, São Paulo State 29 June 1926 – With H. Stammreich et al. authored classical works in the field of Raman spectroscopy With H. Stammreich, R. Forneris & A.G. Ayrosa developed the technique of the excitation of Raman spectra with helium lamps in Technique and results of excitation of Raman spectra in the red and near infrared region. Spectrochim. Acta 8:41-45, 1956 With H. Stammreich introduced large contribution to Raman scattering studies of metals (1958-61) With H. Stammreich & R. Forneris presented reported studies of metallocarbonyls, cyano complexes, halogen complexes and interhalogen compounds With H. Stammreich & R. Forneris developed narrow bandpass filters that resulted in the ability to obtain superb Raman spectra of solid or turbid solutions With H. Stammreich & R. Forneris introduced the use of rubidium vapor lamp with strong resonance for obtaining spectra of Cl4 and many other species Introduced a number of valuable contributions about resonant Raman effect With S. Isotani authored A relation between bending and interaction force constants with the ionic character. An. Acad. Bras. Cien. 45:349, 1973 With M.L.A. Temperini & W.J. Barreto imagined a new representation of SERS enhancement emphasizing the modulation of vibrational mode in SERS effect (1983) With L.K. Noda & X. Araku developed a procedure to obtain the effective nuclear charge from the atomic spectrum of sodium (1999) With A.M. Pereira Neto developed a method to obtain the components of the broad Raman band assigned to the OH stretching vibrations of liquid water (2004)