Ady Raul da Silva
Ady Raul da Silva, Brazilian plant geneticist (Rio de Janeiro 02 August 1917 – 18 September 2011) Developed 26 wheat (IAS13, IAS20, São Borja, Piratini) and 2 oatmeal cultivars With J.M.V. Andrade & J.C. Leite. Duas novas cultivares de trigo para a região do Brasil Central: BR9 Cerrados e BR10 Formosa. Pesq. Agrop. Bras. 19:109-13, 1984 Improved selection methods for wheat varieties resistant to rust and other diseases Identified new races of wheat rust Estudos preliminaries para a produção de variedades de trigo resistentes as ferrugens no Brasil. Serv. Nac. Pesq. Agron. B1 (1947) (isolated seven races of leaf rust) With E.T. Coelho & A.V. da Silva. Identificação de raças de ferrugem da folha do trigo, no Brasil pelo uso de um novo grupo de variedades. Robigo 10:7-22, 1960 With E.T. Coelho. Novas raças fisiológicas de ferrugem do colmo no Rio Grande do Sul. Robigo (1964) Other contributions With E.T. Coelho. The identification of physiologic races of Puccinia graminis var. tritici by wheat isogenic or substitution lines, carrying genes for resistance. Wheat Inform. Serv. 17:33-4, 1964 Discovered that wheat male sterility (sterile spikelets) is due to an interaction of climactic factors and the boron (1977) Pointed out the tolerance to toxic aluminium that a number of plants present Showed that is possible distinguish the seeds of red rice from those of cultivars by translucidity
Adrien Sumichrast
Adrien Louis Jean François Sumichrast, Swiss-born Mexican naturalist and collector (Yvorne, Vaud Canton 15 October 1828 – Tonale, Chiapas State 26 December 1882) Performed collections of many animal and plant species mainly birds and reptiles SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Notes sur une collection de reptiles et de batraciens de la partie occidentale de l’isthme de Tehauntepec. Bull. Soc. Zool. France 15:162-90, 1906 Observations sur les moeurs de l’Heloderma horridum. C.R. Hebd. Seances Acad. Sci. 80:676-9, 1875 The geographical distribution of the native birds of the Department of Vera Cruz with a list of the migratory species. Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 1:542-63, 1869 Note on habits of certain species of Mexican Hymenoptera. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 1868 On the habits of the Mexican species of the genus Ecitron Latr. Trans. Amer. Entom. Soc. 1868 Notes on habits of some Mexican Reptiles. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 3(13):497-507, 1864 Note sur les moeurs des quelques reptiles du Mexique. Bibl. Univ. Rev. Suisse 19:45-61, 1864 HONORS Sumichrastia Townsend 1916 (Diptera)
Adelmo Scivittaro
Adelmo Scivittaro, Brazilian agronomist and entomologist (27 May 1932 – DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA TAXA Genera Schoenfeldtiopsis 1977 with Soares Taphroderoides 1975 Taphroderopsis 1975 Species (with Soares) Claeoderes kirschi 1977 Hyperephanus proseni 1977 Hyphantus dentipes 1977 Hyphantus desbrochersi 1977 Hyphantus diringshofeni 1977 Hyphantus ignotus 1977 Hyphantus inoratus 1977 Hyphantus sulcatus 1977 Hyphantus vaurieae 1977 Hyphantus zikani 1977 Nemobrenthus bechynei 1979 Nemobrenthus pereirai 1979 Proteramocerus appendiculatus 1972 Proteramocerus forcipula 1972 Schoenfeldtiopsis zikani 1977 (Alone) Hephebocerus soaresi 1981 Monrosiaia inpai 1976 Monrosiaia kleinei 1975 Monrosiaia monicae 1975 Monrosiaia sulcata 1978 Monrosiaia walkyriae 1975 Taphroderes bolivianus 1975 Taphroderes dimidiatus 1975 Taphroderes monnei 1975 Taphroderes venezuelanus 1975 Taphroderopsis abdominalis 1975 Taphroderopsis bicolor 1975 Taphroderopsis claviger 1975 Taphroderopsis goianus 1975 Taphroderopsis mammillatus 1975 Taphroderopsis marisae 1975 Taphroderopsis mendax 1975 Taphroderopsis patriciae 1975 Taphroderopsis similis 1975 Taphroderopsis soaresi 1975 Taphroderopsis ubirajarai 1975
Abundio Sagastegui Alva
Abundio Sagastegui Alva, Peruvian botanist and geographer (Guzmango, Contumazá Province, Cajamarca Dept 23 October 1932 – Trujillo, Trujillo Province, La Libertad Dept. 26 October 2012) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genera (with Dillon) Caxamarca 1999 Jalcophila 1986 Parachionolaena 1992 Pseudoligandra 1990 Species About 100 HONORS International Biographic Center (2005) Associate Researcher, Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago) Associate Researcher, Ohio State University of Columbus Associate Researcher, University of Chicago Honor Medal, English Biodiversity Institute
Abel Ambrosio Sarasola
Abel Ambrosio Sarasola, Argentine plant pathologist (1912 – ?) Authored some papers with his wife Maria Amalia Rocca de Sarasola DESCRIBED NEW DISEASES With M.A.Rocca de Sarasola. Una enfermedad de la lechuga producida por Stemphylium botryosum en la Argentina. Rev. Fac. Agr. La Plata 33:83-91, 1957 Nueva enfermedad del olivo en la Argentina causada por Cercospora cladosporioides Sacc. Rev. Fac. Agr. La Plata 41-7, 1951 Alternaria tenuis Nees como etiologico de una nueva enfermedad del olivo. Lilloa 21:7-24, 1949 Dos enfermedades semejantes causadas por Botrytis cinerea y Ovularia viciae en las alverillas forrajeras (Vicia spp.). Dagu 3(3), 1946 Dos septoriosis de las alamedas argentinas. Rev. Arg. Agron. 2:20-43, 1944 Una nueva enfermedad de los manzanos en el Delta del Paraná METHODS With M.A.Rocca de Sarasola. Tecnica simple para seleccionar productos aptos para predisposición quimica y quimioterapia en patologia vegetal. Bol. Soc. Arg. Bot. 28(1-2):138-44, 1977 With M.A.Rocca de Sarasola. Nuevos tratamientos contra el torque del Duraznero en la Argentina. Rev. Invest. Agric. Buenos Aires 13:111-6, 1959 Un metodo practico para el cultivo aseptico de plantas (1946)
Abdus Salam
Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist and mathematician (Santok Das village, Sahiwal district, Punjab Province 29 January 1926 – Oxford, England 21 November 1996) ACHIEVEMENTS Predicted parity violation in weak interaction independent from Lee & Yang and Landau (1956) Introduced chiral symmetry in the neutrino’s theory Theorized the existence of proton decay With S. Glashow and J. Goldstone proved mathematically the Goldstone’s theorem With S. Weinberg first to apply Higgs mechanism to electroweak symmetry breaking (1964) Predicted magnetic photon (1966) Predicted existence of weak neutral currents, Z particles and W particles (1967) Named electroweak force (1967) With S.Weinberg and S. Glashow unified weak and electromagnetic forces With Jogesh Pati proposed that nuclear forces occur in unification (1971) and developed Pati-Salam model in particle physics (1973) With John Strathdee introduced the notion of superspace (1974) With J. Weiss, B. Zumino & J. Strathlee discovered the supergravity (1974) HONORS Physics Nobel Prize (1979) LINKS HTTP://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdus_Salam http://www.alislam.org/library/salam-1.html