Friedrich Sellow
Friedrich Sellow or Sello, German naturalist and etnographer in Brazil (Potsdam 12 March 1789 – Belo Oriente, Minas Gerais State October 1831) Collected thousands of specimens among plants, seeds, wood samples, mammals, birds, mollusks, amphibians, fishes, worms, insects, shells, skins, bird nests, bird eggs, skeletons, anatomical pieces, cranes, rocks, minerals, ethnographic drawings and indigenous artifacts sent to German institutions DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE SPECIES Bignonia bellas Philodendron hastatum Salvia splendens HONORS (Plantae) Selloa Kunth 1818 (Asteraceae) Sellocharis Taubert 1889 (Fabaceae) Friedsellowia Lowe, Coiffard, Mohr & Bernardes de Oliveira 2013 (Fossil)
Francisco Soca
Vicente Francisco Soca Barreto, Uruguayan pediatrician (Soca, Canelones Department 24 July 1856 – Montevideo 29 March 1922) His parents were from Canary Islands Brother in law of surgeon Eduardo Blanco Acevedo Authored Los soplos anorgânicos de la punta del corazón en el niño (1886) Proposed the role of age in the Friedrich disease a law about pain onset in this disease (Soca law) Etude clinique sur la maladie de Friedrich (1889) First study about heritable diseases of nervous system Proposed laringeal vertigo as a sign of asthma SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY A propos d’um cas de polynévrite émetinique suive de mort. Bull. Mem. Soc. Hop. Paris 38:768, 1922 Las polineuritis emetinicas (Nota preliminar). An. Fac. Med. Montevideo (1921) Sobre los colicos hepaticos y sus mascaras gastricas. An. Fac. Med. Montevideo 4:31-60, 1919 Note sur traitement de l’angine de poitrine. Arch. Mal. du Coeur (1915) Traitement du vertige de Meniere par la fibrolysine ou la antipyrinée. Bull. Mem. Soc. Med. Hop. Paris (1913) Sur La fievre hysterique. R.N. Soc. Neurol. 2:103, 1909 Sur un cas de erytheme noueux ayant dure douze ans et guéri par les injections intraveineuses de sulfate de quinine. J. Mal. Cut. Syphil. 19:321-7, 1908 Des rapports de l’asthme et de de la tuberculose. Asthme secondaire. Arch. Gen. Med. 198:353-80, 1908 Sur un cas de “paralysie dês béquilles”. Bull. Mem. Soc. Hop. Paris 2:171, 1906 Sur un nouveau cas de amyotrophie a type Charcot-Marie. Nouv. Icon. Salpetriere 15:53-62, 1902 Sur um cãs de sommeil prolongé pendant sept mois pare um tumeur de l’hypophyse Nouv. Iconogr. Salpetriere 2:101-15, 1900 With R. Bensaude. Un cas de polyadénome de type bouchnerien (1900) La tachypnee histerique secondaire. Nouv. Icon. Salpetriere 17:461-74, 1899 Laryngite estriduleuse avec tirage continu. Arch. Med. Enferm. 1:13-20, 1898 L’albuminurie dans la fievre ganglionaire. Rev. Med. Enf. (1894) Estudios medicos. El ritmo de galope (1888) Estudios medicos del tratamiento de la pleuresia purulenta en el niño (1888) De algunos progresos de la semeyotica cardíaca (1888) Historia de um caso de ataxia locomotriz sifilítica. Thesis (1883) HONOURS Foreign Associate Member, Académie Nationale de Médecine de Paris (1917)
Francisco San Roman
Francisco Javier San Román y San Román, Chilean engineer and geographer (Copiapó 1837 – Santiago de Chile 1902) From Argentine parents Gained recognition of US and European peers for his topographic charts Member of a number of scientific foreign associations With S. Muñoz, A. Chadwick & A. Pizarro authored Carta geografica del desierto y cordilleras de Atacama (1892) Collected some archaeological artifacts such as a knife in Cerro Chuculani and one vessel of Sama SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With L. Sund. Estudios geologicos y topograficos del desierto y la cordillera de Atacama (1911) El Desierto y la Cordillera de Atacama (1896) two volume Hidrologia del desierto y cordilleras de Atacama (1894) La língua cunza de los naturales de Atacama (1890) Datos sobre la mineria en La Rioja y Catamarca (1871) HONORS Sanromanite Schluter, Malcherek & Pohl 2007 (Mineral)
Francisco Mauro Salzano
Francisco Mauro Salzano, Brazilian human geneticist (Cachoeira do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul 27 July 1928 – Porto Alegre 28 September 2018) Considered as one of the leading experts on population genetics and genetical analysis of Amerindians Gave 1,511 scientific contributions including 532 articles, 60 book chapters and 21 books Authored 33 papers with more than 100 citations (16,750 by Semantic Scholar and 20, 209 by Research.com) ACHIEVEMENTS First to illustrate the genetic diversity and some rare genetic conditions in Native Americans The blood groups of South American Indians. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 15:555-79, 1957 With C.V. Tondo. Hemoglobin types of the Caingang Indians of Brazil. Science 132:1893-4, 1960 Rare genetic conditions among the Caingang Indians. Am. Hum. Genet. 25:123-30, 1961 Revealed a general diversity pattern in South Ameridians Intra and inter-tribal genetic variability In South Ameridians. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 28:183-9, 1968 Discovered a new type of population structure (fusion-fission) With J.V. Neel. Further studies on the Xavante Indians. X. Some hypotheses-generalizations resulting from theses studies. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 19:532-42, 1967 Discovered Porto Alegre haemoglobin With C.V. Tondo & D.L. Rucknagel. Hemoglobin Porto Alegre, a possible polymer of normal hemoglobin in a Caucasian Brazilian family. Am. J. Human Genet. 15:265-79, 1963 He was one of the few experts who wrote on the behalf of the World Health Organization the bioethic principles to be followed in genetic and evolutionary research (1964 & 1968) OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS With P. Skoglund, S. Mallick, M.C. Bortolini, N. Chennagiri, T. Hunemeier, M.L. Petz-Erler, N. Patterson & D. Reich. Genetic evidence for two founding populations of the Americas. Nature 525:104-8, 2015 With D. Reich, D. Patterson, N. Campbell et al. Reconstructing Native American population history. Nature 522 (1):1-6, 2012 With M.S. Jota, D.R. Lacerda, J.R. Sandoval et al. A new subhaplogroup of native American Y-chromosomes from the Andes. Amer. J. Phys. Anthr. 146:553-9, 2011 With T. Haag, A.S. Santos, C. Angelo, A.C. Srebek-Araújo, D.A. Sana, R.G. Morato & E. Eizirik. Development and testing of an optimized method for DNA-based identification of jaguar (Panthera onca) and puma (Puma concolor) faecal samples for use in ecological and genetic studies. Genetica 136:5-5-12, 2009 With V.C. Muschner, A.P. Lorenz, A.C.Cervi, S.L. Bonatto, T. Souza-Chies & L.B. Freitas. A first molecular phylogenetic analysis in Passiflora (Passifloraceae). Amer. J. Botany 90(8):1229-38, 2003 With V. Tiziani, E. Reichenberger, C.L. Buzzo, S. Niazi, N. Fukai et al. The gene for cherubism maps to chromosome 4p16. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 65(1):158-66, 1999 With T.A. Weimer, B. Westwood & E. Beutler. G6PD variants in three South American ethnic groups: population distribution and description of two new mutations. Human Hered. 48(1):92-6, 1998 With T.A. Weimer, L. Schüler & E. Beutler. Gd(+) Laguna, a new rare glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase variant from Brazil. Hum. Genet. 65(4):402-4, 1984 With I.V. de Castro & C.V. Tondo. Nova variante de haptoglobina na população negra de Porto Alegre. Cien. Cult. 20(2):16-8, 1968 With C.V. Tondo. Hemoglobin types of Brazilian Indians. Amer. J. Phys. Anthropol. 28(3):355-9, 1968 Papers in top journals PLoS One (11) & PLoS Genetics (3) Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (8) Nature & Nature Communications (6) Lancet (1) Science (1) HONOURS Honorary Member, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1989) Franz Boas High Achievement Award, Human Biology Association (1999) Doctor Honoris Causa, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse III (2010) Foreign Member, National Academy of Sciences, USA (1999) LINKS https://26843a7d-3eb6-4134-9cd3-4baa32c5c56b.filesusr.com/ugd/b703be_f6ec2081f8c243ab98ac431b6b72800e.pdf (English)
Francisco Alberto Saez
Francisco Alberto Saez Sanchez, Uruguayan cytogeneticist (Montevideo 10 March 1898 – Montevideo 27 April 1976) Authored over 200 works (126 scientific works) Gained international recognition for his researches on orthopteran cytogenetics and its taxonomic implications Investigaciones sobre los cromosomas de algunos ortopteros de la America del Sur. I. Numero y organización de lós complejos em cuatro gêneros de acridios. Rev. Museo La Plata 32:317-61, 1930 Variación numérica en correlación con la existência de cromosomas multiples en Aleuas vitticolis sp. (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Rev. Museo La Plata 32:317-61, 1930 Estructura de los cromosomas en dos especies del genero Aleuas. Actas Congr. Nac. Med. Rosario (1935) Oserved the genetic mutation by centric fusion in Orthoptera Found that amphibians don’t display morphologically invidualized sex chromosomes (1935) With P. Rojas & E. De Robertis. Untersuchungen uber die Geschlechtzellen der Amphibien (Anuren). Der Meiotische Prozess bei Bufo arenarum. Zeit. Zellforsch. Mikro Anat. 24:727-77, 1936 Studied the karyotypes of Didelphis paraguayensis (1931) and Lutreolina crassicauda (1938) Observed that there is not sexual chromatin in many species of insects and birds Authored the first work in which describes that gravity induced chromosome changes Alteraciones experimentales inducidas por la acción de la gravedad en las células somáticas de Lathyrus odoratus (Leguminosae). An. Soc. Cient. Argentina 132:139-50, 1941 Demonstrated that differentiation of euchromatin and heterochromatin along meiosis and concluded that they are distinct in their intramolecular organization Differentiation of meiotic meiotic heterochromatin and euchromatin by microspectrophotometric techniques. Anat. Rec. 113:65, 1952 Citofotometria de la heterocromatina y cromatina. Biologica 22:31-6, 1956 Described the neoX-neoY system in Orthoptera (1956) With A. Díaz. Sistema sexual neo-X neo-Y em Xyleus laevipes (Orthoptera: Romaleinae). Arch. Soc. Biol. Montevideo 23:13-27, 1956 An extreme karyotype in an orthopteran insect. Am. Nat. 91:259-64, 1957 Demonstrated the clastogenic action of some substances from animal origin With M. E. Drets. The action of gonyleptidine on the mitotic and meiotic chromosomes and on the interphase nucleus. Portugaliae Acta Biol. 5:287-302, 1958 First to describe the polyploidy in Amphibia and meiotic multivalent association of the chromosomes (1959) With N. Brum-Zorrilla. Citogenetica de anfibios anuros de America del Sur. Los cromosomas de Odontophrynus americanus y Ceratophrys ornata. An. Fac. Med. Montevideo 44:414-23, 1959 With N. Brum-Zorrilla analysed the karyotype of over 80 anuran species from South America (1959-73) Demonstrated that Black sorghum is an interspecific hybrid With O. Nuñez. La citologia de Sorghum alnum (Parodi), una nueva especie con 40 cromosomas. I. Los cromosomas somaticos. Rev. Arg. Agron. 11:152-7, 1943 Established biochemical and genetical correlations about heterochromatinization gradient of sexual chromosomes (1963-8) Described the karyotype of capybara, the biggest rodent in the world With M. E. Drets & N. Brum-Zorrilla. Karyotype of the “carpincho” (Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris uruguayensis (Rodentia, Hydrochaeridae). Experientia 27(5):584-5, 1971 With M.E. Drets & N. Brum-Zorrilla described the karyotype of Southern long-nosed armadillo (Dasypus hybridus) in 1964 Described a new mechanism of formation of sex-bivalent chromosome Xyp With E. Corbella, F. Panzera & G.A. Folle. C-banding and non-homologous associations. II. The “parachute” Xyp sex bivalent and the behavior of heterochromatic segment in Epilachna paenulata. Chromosoma 88:249-55, 1983 With V. Nowinski e E. De Robertis authored Citologia General (General Cytology) in 1946 translated into many languages; later named Cell Biology METHODS Le carmin acétique ferrique dans l’etude des chromosomes des animaux. Arch. Soc. Biol. Montevideo 1:258-61, 1929 (iron-aceto-carmin method) Un sencillo dispositivo para la inclusión en parafina que elimina ventajosamente el empleo de la estufa termorreguladora. Physis 11:82-5, 1931 Introduced a method for studying human chromosomes obtained from bone marrow puncture With E. Varela. Un nuevo metodo para el estudio de los cromosomas somaticos del hombre. Rev. Soc. Arg. Biol. 10:421-2, 1934 Una tecnica para el estudio de los cromossomas somáticos largos en los vegetales. Ciencia y Investigación 6:281-2, 1950 Perfected a many of staining cells procedures With M. Drets developed methodology employed for verifying if new volatile synthetic drugs are able to induce chromosomal changes LINKS https://fibamdp.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/libro-sobre-prof-f-saez-2011.pdf (Spanish)
Francisco Adolfo Sauvalle
Francisco Adolfo Sauvalle Chanceaulme, Cuban botanist (Charleston, South Carolina 01 July 1807 – Regla, La Habana 30 January 1878) From French parents Authored Nuevo metodo para la conservación de las carnes en la Isla de Cuba (1867) DESCRIBED PLANTAE SPECIES Calycogonium ellipticum Calycogonium productum Casearia aquifolia Jatropha peltata Margaritopsis acuifolia Myginda pungens Sabal mexicana Sagraea macrandra Terminalia angustifolia Zanthoxylum gracile Zanthoxylum phyllopterum Zanthoxylum stenopterum HONORS Sauvallea Wright 1871 (Commelinaceae)