Aloysio Sehnem
Aloysio Sehnem, Brazilian botanist and father (Santa Cruz do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul State 1912 – São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul 19 March 1981) From German descent DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE SPECIES Pteridophyta Adiantopsis minutula 1972 Adiantopsis oculta 1959 Adiantopsis perfasciculata 1961 Alsophila acantha 1978 Alsophila campestrium 1978 Alsophila cipoensis 1978 Alsophila kleinii 1978 Alsophila reitzii 1978 Alsophila serrae 1978 Anemia costata 1974 Anemia hatschbachii 1974 Anemia pinnata 1974 Anemia rigida 1974 Anemia schaefferi 1974 Anemia cipoensis 1974 Asplenium araucarieti 1963 Asplenium spannagelii 1963 Blechnum simile 1968 Doryopteris angustata 1972 Doryopteris excisa 1961 Doryopteris intermedia 1961 Doryopteris procera 1961 Doryopteris rivalis 1961 Doryopteris scalaris 1961 Dryopteris abyssi 1979 Dryopteris oligophylloides 1979 Dryopteris oreocharis 1979 Dryopteris pleiophylla 1979 Dryopteris podotricha 1979 Dryopteris sinuata 1979 Elaphoglossum gertii 1979 Hymenophyllum delicatulum 1956 Bryophyta Hookeriopsis bartramii 1969 Hookeriopsis heterophylla 1978 Macromitrium divortiarum 1978 Meteorium squamidioides 1980 Orthostichopsis latifolia 1972 Schlotheimia perserrata 1978 Squamidium angustifolium 1980 Squamidium cuspidatum 1980 Syrrhopodon stenophyllus 1972 Tetraplodon tomentosus 1976 Thamniopsis stenodictyon Thuidium patrum 1976 Zygodon patrum 1978 HONORS Sehnemobryum Lewinsky-Haapasaari & Hedenäs 1998 (Musci)
Alfredo Sordelli
Alfredo Sordelli Anette, Argentine microbiologist (Buenos Aires 28 January 1891 – 15 December 1967) From Lombardian father ACHIEVEMENTS Demonstrated that agar and other carbohydrates can be antigens and stimulate precipitins Demonstrated existence of a specific lipoid that fixates antibodies on heterogenetic antigen His preparation and titration methods of bacterial toxins were adopted worldwide Established titration methods of anti-diphtheria, anti-dysentery, anti-gangrene, anti-ophidic and other sera Elaborated and perfected economic and rapid immunization for obtaining sera of high efficiency Developed a technique for obtaining anti-diphtheria serum was later adopted by J. Bordet and perfected by Ramon With A. Manzullo developed a method for diagnose of diphtheria Developed methods for the preparation of insulin and other hormones such as estrogens and adrenaline Imagined a method for isolating psittacosis virus With Soriano, Ferrari & Torino described Clostridium saprotoxicum 1934 Discovered Clostridium sordellii, causative agent of gas gangrene (1922) Created a method for measuring minute tensions With R. Wernicke. Um metodo de medida de pequeñas tensiones. Anal. Asoc. Quim. Arg. 1:8, 1913 A new method for the preparation of serums on a large scale Demonstrated that heteroantigen is composed of two parts (lipid and protein), a concept later retrieved by Landsteiner (1918-25) With Deulofeu & Wernicke characterized Forssman antigen as a lipidic complex associated to a carrier protein Naturaleza del antigeno heterogenetico. Rev. Asoc. Med. Arg. 37:570, 1924 Sur la nature de l’antigéne hétérogénétique. C.R. Soc. Biol. Paris 92:898, 1925 EPONYMY Sordelli antitoxin (used against gas gangrene) Sordelli technique for production of sera and vaccines anti gas gangrene Sordelli method for preservation of microbial cultures by desiccation in vacuum Sordelli-Miravent-Negroni culture medium (1926) Sordelli-Deulofeu technique for preparation of insulin (1923) Sordelli toxoid preparation technique Sordelli-Miravent reaction for diagnosis of syphilis (1930) Sordelli tubes
Alfonso Splendore
Alfonso Splendore, Italian-born Brazilian physician (Fagnano Castelo, Cosenza province 25 April 1871 –São Paulo 30 April 1953) ACHIEVEMENTS First reported case of animal infection by sporotrichosis With A. Lutz. Sobre uma micose observada em homens e ratos. Rev. Med. S. Paulo 21:433-50, 1907 With A. Lutz described pathogeny, pathology and symptomatology of sporotrichosis and discovered the possibility of growing Sporotrichium schenckii in vitro (1907) Discovered Toxoplasma gondii (1908) independently from Nicolle and Manceaux Described mucous form of American cutaneous leishmaniasis, a new clinical form of leishmaniasis (1911) Isolated Paracoccidioides brasiliensis etiologic agent of paracoccidiodomycosis (1913) DESCRIBED PROTOZOA SPECIES Coelosporidium periplanetae 1903 with Lutz Glugea caeculiae 1904 with Lutz Glugea halesidotidis 1904 with Lutz Glugea heliotidis 1904 with Lutz Glugea hydriae 1904 with Lutz Glugea micrattaci 1904 with Lutz Microsporidium balantidii 1908 with Lutz Microsporidium distomi 1908 with Lutz Microsporidium ephemerae 1908 with Lutz Microsporidium girardini 1903 Nosema astyroe 1903 Nosema chironomi 1908 Nosema erippi 1903 Nosema eubules 1903 Nosema junonis 1903 Nosema lophocampoe 1903 Nosema periplanetoe 1903 Nosema vanilloe 1903 Polydispyrenia simulii 1908 Trypanosoma hypostomi 1910 EPONYMY Splendore-Hoeppli phenomenon or Splendore reaction or Splendore corpuscles (1908) Lutz-Splendore-Almeida disease or paracoccidioidomycosis See complete bibliography in https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:IFEFG0nsV3oJ:revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/scientiamedica/article/viewFile/5750/5049+alfonso+splendore&hl=pt-BR&gl=br&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjMKr5HgoFHSw8qeNeLkk_-xrhc0UBgeSWHXpFgBXrq-CvKrESogm_LPX37cEMkif37xJ-xXoU4wAceiQmDWRpxP88oBx-ADVWWlQt-FoOSTCkuoQyCW-IQ2dDe9pmiveE-u4E_&sig=AHIEtbRWdccUWcqaaear9Nhc9TQoMcBiig
Alexander Frank Skutch
Alexander Frank Skutch, US-born Costa Rican ornithologist and philosopher (Baltimore, Maryland 20 May 1904 – San Isidro del General 12 May 2004) Son in law of naturalist Charles H. Lankester Recognized as the world’s foremost expert on Neotropical birds of Central America Authored over 200 papers and 40 books ACHIEVEMENTS Studied life habits for about 300 bird species Presented the diversity of reproductive rates among species Demonstrated that the procreation of tropical birds is slower than that of the same families in the Northern Hemisphere Explained the differences in size between litters of Neotropical and northern birds Discovered cooperative brooding (1935) Defined associations and interactions that some animal species establish with their environment Collected plant species unknown to science in Central America HONORS Skutchia Pax & K. Hoffmann 1937 (Plantae) Skutchia Willis 1968 (Aves)
Albino Morimasa Sakakibara
Albino Morimasa Sakakibara, Brazilian entomologist (São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo State 29 May 1941 – From Japanese ancestry DESCRIBED HEMIPTERA/HOMOPTERA TAXA Genera Acanthodeois 1979 Aurimastris 2007 with Evangelista Bordoniana 1999 Carachata 1989 with Carvalho Cleusiana 1989 with Cavichioli Cornutalis 1998 Creonus 1996 Deoisella 2002 with Costa Eucyphonia 1968 Fermeria 2000 Fennahia 1979 Folicarina 1992 Germariana 1998 Hanstruempelia 2004 Lycoderides 1972 Micropepla 1979 Nasuconia 2007 Neotynelia 2000 with Creão Duarte Notogonia 1996 Paracentronodus 1971 Paraphetea 2000 with Creão Duarte Peltosticta 1976 Proxolonia 1969 Pseuderechtia 2012 Ramedia 1989 with Creão Duarte Sinopia 1977 Tapinolobus 1969 Species About 260 species of treehoppers, spittlebugs and cicadellids HONORS Sakakibarella Creão Duarte 1997 (Hemiptera) Albiniana Cavichioli 1996 (Homoptera) Albinapis Urban & Graf 2000 (Hymenoptera) Sakakibarana Gonçalves, Takiya & Mejdalani 2017 (Hemiptera) Sakakidikra Catalano & Dietrich 2017 (Hemiptera) LINKS https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4281.1.3.
Alberto Santos Dumont
Alberto Santos Dumont, Brazilian aviator and inventor (Palmira, today Santos Dumont, Minas Gerais State 20 July 1873 – Guarujá, São Paulo State 23 July 1932) Of French descent IMPROVEMENTS/INVENTIONS More than 20 inventions related to ballons, dirigibles, monoplanes and biplanes Many inventions in field of mechanics Discovered and comproved balloons dirigibility and their motion in the air without requiring winds force (1898) Performed the first mechanical flight in the world (with 14-bis) and developed the first flight simulator (1906) Introduced main landing gear unit in airplanes Stablished stabilizer function to mooring cable and developed flight stabilizers Produced propellers, aluminium compounds and other materials Placed gasoline engines in dirigibles Invented hangar with sliding doors (1900) and Demoiselle 20, the first hang-glider (1909) First to employ engines (1898) and illuminating gas (1899) to ballons (Amerique balloon, the first use of petrol engine in aviation (1898)) Developed the precursor of ailerons Introduced landing wheels, dihedron and nose to airplanes The artificial horizon for pilots guidance The utilization of rubber dampers Improvements in carburetors and magnets Invented opposed-piston engine Built an airplane with aquatic slipper (hydroavion forerunner) 1907 Improvements in aircraft construction techniques Invented life-saver cannon, that throw safety buoys Conceived Marciano, a motor that aid skiers motion A kind of knapsack for individual flight Platform shoes Half stairs An engine that produces electric power Wrist watch for men (1904) A mechanism for take edible baits before racing dogs Designed and built the first automobile with the best power to weight ratio until then (1897) Pantographic door HONORS Lunar Santos Dumont crater Deutsche Prize (1901) TRIVIA Invited to meet US President Theodore Roosevelt in White House (1904)