João Evangelista da Silva
João Evangelista da Silva, Brazilian medical entomologist (fl.1956-97) DESCRIBED TAXA Diptera Genus Barrettomyia 1965 with Martins Species Brumptomyia ortizi 1971 with Falcão & Martins Evandromyia termitophila 1964 with Falcão & Martins Lutzomyia abunaensis 1965 with Falcão & Martins Lutzomyia acanthopharynx 1962 with Falcão & Martins Lutzomyia appendiculata 1961 with Falcão & Martins Lutzomyia bacula 1965 with Falcão & Martins Lutzomyia borgmeieri 1972 with Falcão & Martins Lutzomyia calcarata 1964 with Martins Lutzomyia caligata 1965 with Falcão & Martins Lutzomyia callipyga 1965 with Martins Lutzomyia capixaba 1987 with Falcão, Martins & Dias 1987 Lutzomyia cipoensis 1964 with Falcão & Martins Lutzomyia cuzquena 1975 with Llanos & Martins Lutzomyia diacantha 1965 with Martins Lutzomyia dispar 1963 with Martins Lutzomyia dubia 1965 with Falcão & Martins Lutzomyia elegans 1976 with Martins & Llanos Lutzomyia eurypyga 1963 with Falcão & Martins Lutzomyia flabellata 1964 with Martins Lutzomyia fraihai 1979 with Falcão & Martins Lutzomyia gasparviannai 1962 with Godoy & Martins Lutzomyia goiana 1962 with Falcão & Martins Lutzomyia hermanlenti 1970 with Falcão & Martins Lutzomyia inornata 1965 with Falcão & Martins Lutzomyia ischnacantha 1962 with Falcão, Souza & Martins Lutzomyia machupicchu 1975 with Llanos & Martins Lutzomyia mangabeirana 1963 with Falcão & Martins Lutzomyia oliveirai 1970 with Falcão & Martins Lutzomyia omagua 1976 with Llanos & Martins Lutzomyia paulwilliamsi 1977 with Falcão & Martins Lutzomyia petropolitana 1968 with Martins Lutzomyia pusilla 1986 with Dias, Falcão & Martins Lutzomyia quechua 1975 with Llanos & Martins Lutzomyia ramirezi 1982 with Falcão, Martins & Miranda Lutzomyia renei 1957 with Falcão & Martins Lutzomyia rondoniensis 1965 with Falcão & Martins Lutzomyia ruparupa 1976 with Falcão & Martins Lutzomyia rupicola 1962 with Godoy & Martins Lutzomyia sherlocki 1971 with Falcão & Martins Lutzomyia souzalopesi 1970 with Falcão & Martins Lutzomyia spathotrichia 1963 with Falcão & Martins Lutzomyia teratodes 1964 with Falcão & Martins Sergentomyia schreiberi 1975 with Falcão & Martins HONORS Subg Silvamyia Galati 1995 (Diptera)
José María Sobral
José María Sobral Iturrioz, Argentine geologist, polar explorer and geographer (Gualeguaychú, Entre Ríos Province 14 April 1880 – Buenos Aires 14 April 1961) Authored 29 publications SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY On the contact features of the Nordingra region. Bull. Geol. Inst. 9:118-28, 1910 Contribution to the geology of the Nordingra region (1913) On a granite of Hemson. Physis 2(10):122-7, 1916 Sobre el piroxeno y la olivina de la diabasa de Ulfö. Physis 4 (17):290-1, 1918 Estudio petrografico de algunas rocas argentinas. An. Sección Geol. Mineral. Minist. Agric. 2, 1918 Some physiographic notes on the Sierra de Famatina. Geogr. Annaler 3:311-26, 1921 Problemas hidrograficos en los Andes Australes (1921) La mina aurífera de San Ramón, Departamento de Tupungato (Provincia de Mendoza). Segundo Congr. Ingenieria (1928) Sobre el petroleo y el carbón. Rev. Col. Libre Estud. Super. 9:2264-91, 1941 Geologia de la comarca del territorio de La Pampa situada al occidente del Chadi-Levu. Bol. Inform. Petrol. 212:33-81, 1942 Geografia de la región occidental del territorio de La Pampa. Anales Primer Congr. Panam. Minas Geol. 2:668-750, 1942 La Plataforma continental del continente Antartico. Rev. Arg. Austral. 19(222):5-11, 1949 HONORS Sobraliceras Medina & Riccardi 2006 (Fossil Cephalopoda)
José Francisco da Silva Lima
José Francisco da Silva Lima, Portuguese-born Brazilian physician (Vilarinho, Portugal 15 January 1826 – Salvador 10 February 1910) ACHIEVEMENTS Described ainhum or Silva Lima disease (dactylolysis spontanea) identifying it as a distinct clinical entity Estudo sobre o ainhum, moléstia ainda não descripta, peculiar à raça ethipoica e affectando os dedos mínimos dos pés. Gaz. Med. Bahia 1(13):146-51, 1867 Classified beriberi in three clinical forms accepted worldwide First to call attention to development of second heart sound in beriberi Ensaio sobre o beribéri no Brasil (1872) Performed pioneer studies about clinical forms of Bancroftian filariasis Created the term microfilaria Nouvelle phase de la question relative à la nature parasitaire de la chylurie. Decouverte du representant adult de la Filaria de Wucherer. Arch. Med. Nav. 28 (12):439-047, 1877 Authored important studies on yaws LINKS www.dichistoriasaude.coc.fiocruz.br/iah/P/verbetes/limajossil.htm (complete bibliography)
Jose Vicente Scorza
José Vicente Scorza Benítez, Venezuelan parasitologist (Caracas 08 July 1924 – Merida 18 August 2016) From Italian ancestry Proposed identification of Leishmania braziliensis, L.mexicana and L. garnhami species by location of kinetoplast With H. Urdaneta. Experimental basis for the identification of American Leishmania spp. by morphometry of amastigotes. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz (1982) Developed ulamine, a pentavalent antimonial for leishmaniasis With Y. Petit de Peña, N.Vicuña Fernandez, S. López Rangel, L. Vasquez, P. Carrero, J.V. Scorza Dagert & C. Rondón. Antimony speciation in human blood samples from patients treated with ulamine: a novel experimental drug for leishmaniasis. Metal. Ions In Biol. Med. 8:560-3, 2004 DEVELOPED METHODS With J. Marquez & N. Añez. Coconut water as a monophasic liquid medium for cultivating Trypanosomatidae. Trans. Royal Soc. Trop. Med. Hum. (1987) With J.C. Sanchez Marquez & M.M. Nin Marquez. La densidad de Lutzomyia townsendi (Diptera:Phlebotominae) adultos estimada fototacticamente mediante el marcado con fluorocromos (1984) A new method for isolating Schistosoma japonicum eggs by enzymes (1961) With A. Alvarez, I. Ramos, C. Dagert, A Díaz Vasquez & J.F. Torrealba. New rapid method for the diagnosis of Chagas disease in its chronic phase (Application of the Sabin-Feldman dye test). Arch. Venez. Med. Trop. Parasitol. Med. 3(1):122-35, 1959 DESCRIBED Protozoa Cercaria allotropicalis 1966 Hepatozoon legeri 1956 with Dagert & Iturriza Hepatozoon didelphidis Leishmania garnhami 1979 with Valera, Scorza, Carnevali, Moreno & Lugo Hernandez Plasmodium pifanoi 1956 with Dagert Plasmodium torrealbai 1957 with Dagert Sarcocystis cervi 1957 with Torrealba & Dagert Sarcocystis didelphis 1957 with Torrealba & Dagert Toxoplasma serpai 1956 with Dagert & Iturriza Arocha Trypanosoma ocumarensis 1955 with Dagert Diptera (with Ortiz 1963) Subgenus Pifanomyia Brumptomyia devenanzii Lutzomyia ottolinai Nemopalpus torrealbai Scorpiones Neochactas orinicensis 1954 Teuthraustes carmelinae 1954 Tityus urbinai 1954 Tityus valeriae 1954 Others Chordodes lichyi 1954 Klossiella tejerai 1957 with Torrealba & Dagert Peripatus (Epiperipatus) torrealbai 1953
Jose Luis Sersic
José Luis Sersic, Argentine astronomer (Bella Vista, Corrientes Province 06 May 1933 – Carlos Paz, Cordoba Province 10 July 1993) From Croatian descent ACHIEVEMENTS Authored 129 works with at least 10.000 citations Enunciated Sersic profile law, a generalization of Vaucouleurs law Influence of the atmospheric and instrumental dispersion on the brightness distribution in a galaxy. Bol. Asoc. Arg. Astron. 6:41, 1963 Codiscovered Sersic-Pastoriza nuclei and Sersic-Pastoriza galaxies With M.G. Pastoriza. Peculiar Nuclei in Galaxies. PASP 77:287, 1966. EPONYMY Sersic index or parameter Sersic magnitudes Sersic function Sersic surface Sersic galaxies Sersic spheroids
Jorge Sahade
Jorge Sahade Kassab, Argentine astronomer (Alta Gracia, Cordoba Province 23 February 1915 – La Plata 18 November 2012) Son of Syrian immigrants Expert on astrophysics and stellar spectroscopy Authored more than 190 works Studied Struve-Sahade effect (1962) Discovered spectral features in various systems Authored A systematic effect in the radial velocities determined with an oscilloscope-type comparator HONORS President, International Astronomical Union (1985-8) Asteroid Sahade 2605 Diploma of Recognition, NASA (1994) Distinguished Foreign Scholar, Mid-State American Universities, Nebraska university (1988) LINKS http://www.fundacionkonex.com.ar/b979-jorge_sahade