Raul Rodríguez Barrios
Raul Rodríguez Barrios, Uruguayan neuro-ophthalmologist (Montevideo 02 September 1911 – Montevideo 05 August 2001) Authored over 170 papers Developed a suction or aspiration technique for congenital and juvenile cataract Succión directa de las cataratas congenitas y juveniles (1956) Created suction needle for extraction of congenital cataract (built by Swiss company Greis-Haber) known as Rodríguez Barrios needle With María Julia Massera Lerena authored Fondo de Ojo (Fundus), praised by review Ophthalmology Highlights to be more complete textbook about this field in any language (1959) With M.D. Bottinelli & J. Medoc described the syndrome of ocular depression and convergency (1959) One of the first in the world to perform episcleral implantation and photocoagulation in the treatment of retinal detachment (1962) With C. Solis Rodríguez. Carotid compression tonographic test. A new method to study the carotid circulation. Acta Neurol. Latinoam. 9:48, 1963 Gave warnings about direction for corneal transplants and the right selection of patients for grafting Selection of Patients for grafting. The Cornea World Congress, Butterworths, Washington p.443-60, 1965 Presented reasons and techniques for labyrinth stimulation With Maria Delia Bottinelli & Juan Medoc. The study of ocular motility in the comatose patient. J. Neurol. Sciences (1966) With C. Solis Rodríguez & F. Zylberglajt. New diagnostic sign of intraocular and orbital tumors. Acta Neurol. Latinoam. 12(1):198-203, 1966 Developed a technique for treatment of post-ulcer corneal perforation With E.Meerhoff 7 F. Zylberglajt. Tarso-conjuntivo-keratoplastia. Arq. Bras. Oftalm. 36:2-6, 1973 With R. Arana Iñiguez & J. San Julián. Nueva técnica para la extirpación del quisto hidatico cerebral HONOURS Gradle Lecture Jackson Lecture, American Society of Ophthalmology LINKS http://www.smu.org.uy/dpmc/hmed/historia/articulos/rodriguez-barrios.pdf (in Spanish)
Rao Yelseti Ramachandra Rao
Rao Bahadur Yelseti Ramachandra Rao, Indian agricultural entomologist (Yemmiganur, Adoni Taluk, Karnool District, Andhra Pradesh 11 September 1885 – 01 June 1972) Internationally acknowledged expert on locusts Described Homopteran species Palmaspis phoenicis 1922 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY The Desert locust in India (1960) The areas of origin of locust flights in the different parts of India with reference to the question of their control. Curr. Sci. 14(2), 1945 Some results of studies on the desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria Forsk.) in India. Bull. Entom. Res. 33(4):241-65, 1942 The life cycle, particularly sexual maturation in relation to climate and other factors, and methods of study. Proc. 3rd Int. Locust Conf. p.67-73, 1934 Fumigation of imported seeds with special reference to Stephanoderes. Planters Chronicle 22(25):373-4, 1927 The silver shoot disease of paddy. Madras Agric. Dept. Year Book (1925) Notes on pests investigated in Madras during the years 1921-2. Rep. Proc. 5th Ent. Meet. Pusa 1923 p.19-22, 1924 With B.A. Ballard. A preliminary note on the life history of certain anthomyiid flies Atherigona spp. and Acritochaeta excisa Thompson. Rep. Proc. 5th Ent. Meet. Pusa 1923 p.275-77, 1924 The genitalia of certain Anthomyiid flies. Rep. Proc. 5th Ent. Meet. Pusa 1923, 1924 The pests of the date palm in the Iraq. Memoirs Mesopotamia Dept. Agric. 6:1-12, 1922 Lantana insects in India. Mem. Dept. Agric. India 5:292-3, 1919 Notes on some South India Cecidomyiidae causing galls in grasses. Proc. Asiat. Soc. 13:299-306, 1917 Helopeltis antonii as pest of neem trees. Agric. J. India 10:412-6, 1915 Notes on pests investigated in Madras during the years 1921-2 Appearance of locust swarms on the Malabar coast in October 1952 HONORS Ramachandraspis Prabhaker Rao 1953 (Hemiptera)
Raja Ramanna
Raja Ramanna, Indian nuclear physicist (Tiptur, Karnataka State 28 January 1925 – Mumbai 24 September 2004) Enunciated theory of heavy nuclei giving rise to radiation Presented the stochastic theory of fragment mass and charge distribution in nuclear fission Gave geometrical interpretation of atomic and nuclear binding energies Involved in the development of a new kind of ion chamber
Rafael Romero Castañeda
Rafael R. Romero Castañeda, Colombian botanist (Cienaga, Magdalena Department 28 March 1910 – Bogotá 10 January 1973) DESCRIBED PLANT TAXA Valid Genus Uribea 1962 with Dugand Valid Species Aragoa dugandii 1958 Aragoa kogiorum 1951 Aragoa perez-arbelaeziana 1972 Matisia giacomettoi 1970 Trianaea neovisae 1973 Uribea tamarindoides 1962 with Dugand HONORS Romeroa Dugand 1952 (Bignoniaceae) Castanedia King & Robinson 1978 (Asteraceae)
Rafael Rangel
José Rafael Rangel Estrada, Venezuelan parasitologist (Betijoque, Trujillo State 25 April 1877 –Caracas 20 August 1909) Described with Romero Sierra Diptera species Aedes dominicii 1907 Studied an equine disease known as “peste boba” from which obtained a trypanosome species. It was described and named Trypanosoma venezuelense by Mesnil
Rafael Ramírez Merchán
Rafael Francisco Ramírez Merchán, Colombian obstetrician (died Bogotá 1986) Developed a new obstetric maneuver for dystocia before Maughan (1956) & Kutcipal (1959) The Presentation of an original technique for applying forceps in posterior varieties of the vertex. Rev. Col. Obst. Ginecol. 1:60, 1950 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY La psicoprofilaxis obstetrica. Rev. Col. Obst. Ginecol. 34(4):238-43, 1983 With A. Velasco Chiriboga, A. Ariza, E. Aaron & E. Cabal. Las espátulas de Velasco. Evaluación clinica. Rev. Col. Obst. Ginecol. 26:111, 1975 With L. Rojas. Rotura uterina. Rev. Col. Obst. Ginecol. 20(5):365-71, 1969 Tratamiento de las septicemias puerperales por imunotransfusión (1942) Miomatosis uterina y embarazo