Rafael Ramos Galvan
Rafael Ramos Galván, Mexican pediatrician (Ciudad de Mexico 09 July 1914 – Ciudad de Mexico 11 November 1998) Authored about 450 works With J. Cravioto & F. Gómez characterized the child severe malnutrition First described nutritional recovery syndrome With J. Cravioto & F. Gómez. Nutritional recovery syndrome (Preliminary report). Pediatrics 10:513-26, 1952 Described nutritional neutropenia and the clinical features of polineuritis Showed that third-degree child malnutrition and kwashiorkor are the same thing With J. Cravioto, F. Gómez & S. Frenk. Desnutrición de tercer grado en Mexico (kwashiorkor en Africa). Bol. Med. Hosp. Inf. 9(3):281, 1952 With F. Gómez showed the chlorine concentration in the sweat and described the pattern of plasmatic amino acids showing the transient existence of metabolic blocks similar to congenital errors of metabolism Classified malnutrition clinical signs in universal, circumstantial and aggregate Better documented the reduction in somatic growth in chronic malnourished children Identified changes in body proportion due to malnutrition Desnutrición y crecimiento fisico. Bol. Med. Hosp. Inf. Mexico 21 (Suppl 1):11-26, 1964 Efecto del ambiente sobre el crecimiento y desarrollo fisicos. Bol. Med. Hosp. Inf. Mexico 27:435-46, 1970 Consecuencias de la desnutrición cronica en los grupos humanos. Gac. Med. Mexico 111:297-316, 1976 Proposed new concepts in pediatric somatometry Somatometria pediatrica. Estudio semilongitudinal en niños de la Ciudad de Mexico. Arch. Invest. Med. 6 (Suppl 1):83-396, 1975 Validated and developed the concept of homeorrhesis to describe and measure longitudinally the changes in form and magnitude of the infant, child and adolescent under the effect of the stress of malnutrition and during nutritional rehabilitation (1964-75) Homeorhesis as a phenomenon of adaptation to calorie-protein deficiency (1966) Homeorresis. Bol. Med. Hosp. Inf. 24:5, 1967 OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS Desnutrición, un componente del síndrome de privación social. Gac. Med. 96:929, 1966 With J. Cravioto. Desnutrición en el niño. Concepto y ensayo de sistematización. Bol. Med. Hosp. Inf. 15(6):763, 1958 PAPERS IN RELEVANT PERIODICALS With F. Gómez, J. Cravioto & S. Frenk. Prevention and treatment of chronic severe infantile malnutrition (kwashiorkor). Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 69(5):969-81, 1958 With F. Gómez, J. Cravioto, S. Frenk, J. Vazquez Santaella & C. de la Peña. Fat absorption in chronic severe malnutrition in children. Lancet 268(6934):121-2, 1956
Rabello family
Francisco Eduardo Accioli Rabello, Brazilian dermatologist (Rio de Janeiro 31 December 1905 – 25 January 1989) Authored about 200 scientific works Enunciated the polarity concept in various clinical forms of leprosy A clinico-epidemiological classification of the forms of leprosy. Int. J. Leprol. 5:343-56, 1937 Classified leprosy in four types: virchowian, tuberculoid, dimorphous and undetermined (1938) Created a conceptual system of dermatological nomenclature Described the late reaction of Montenegro test Pointed out new allergy aspects of the lympho-granulomatosis disease Claimed attention for the first time to the possibility of cross reactions between Koch and Hansen’s antigens-antibodies Eponym of Rabello colliquative neuritis and Rabello impetiginoid lesions in cutaneous leishmaniasis SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Coccidioidina como tratamento de blastomicose. An. Bras. Derm. Sifililogr. 9:34, 1934 Donnees nouvelles pour l’interpretation de l’affection de Besnier-Boeck: role de la lepre. Ann. Dermatol. Syphil 7:571, 1936 A framboesia tropica e o problema das suas manifestações tardias. An. Bras. Derm. Sifililogr 13:17, 1938 A lepra incaracterística na experiência do Sanatório Padre Bento. Rev. Bras. Leprol. 11(2):115-32, 1943 With H. Portugal & R.D. Azulay. As buloses do grupo do pênfigo, suas correlações clínicas, funcionais e histológicas. An. Bras. Derm. Sifililogr 24:1, 1949 With R.D. Azulay, A.G. Antunes & J.A. Villela-Pedras. Eritrodermias exfoliativas. An. Bras. Derm. Sifilogr. 28(3):153-74, 1953 Conceituação clinico-biologica das eczematizações. An. Bras. Derm. Sifililogr. 29(1):33-45, 1954 With M. Rutowitsch & C.M. de Medeiros. Pruritic skin diseases. An. Bras. Derm. Sifililogr. 29(4):251-61, 1954 The group B under clinical viewpoint. Arqu. Min. Leprol. 20:412, 1960 With G.A. Quintaes & A. Barcaui. A case with characteristics of lichen sclerosus et atrophicus and a nevoid atrophy in patches, and with possibility of an incomplete form of scleroderma. Anais Bras. Dermatol. 41(4):290-1, 1966 With S. Fraga & C.M. de Medeiros. Chronic cicatricial bullosis. Anais Bras. Dermatol 45(1):31-6, 1970 Clinico-biological concepts of atopic status. Anais Bras. Dermatol. 46(1):35-52, 1971 Dissociated response to rheumatoid factor in lepromatous hanseniasis. JAMA 226 (10):1228, 1973 Amiloidose cutânea genuína (1955-1980). Anais Bras. Dermatol. 56(3):175-7, 1981 Síndrome complexa, familial, multicêntrica, atingindo pele, endocárdio, formações endócrinas e neuroendócrinas, mixomas. Anais Bras. Dermatol. 62(1):5-7, 1987 With V. Boas & H. Portugal. Considerações em torno de um caso de coccidioia com estrutura sarcóide. An. Bras. Dermatol. HONOURS Counselor, International Leprosy Association Expert, International Center of Leprology Chairman, Dermatological Nomenclature Committe of International Congresses of Stockholm (1957) & Washington (1962) His father, Eduardo Rabello, Brazilian dermatologist (Barra Mansa, Rio de Janeiro State 22 September 1876 – Rio de Janeiro 08 August 1940) Identified the nature of leishmaniotic lesions of the mucosa (1909) Authored a classification of the clinical forms of cutaneous leishmaniasis With J. Aguiar Pupo identified lepromatous and tuberculoid-polar types of leprosy First to call attention to a number of frequent forms of tuberculoid leprosy (1923) Described clinical aspects of the blastomycosis and distinguished it bteween the cutaneous and generalized forms Pointed out the existing differences between Brazilian and European ringworm epidemiology Demonstrated the possibility of microsporic ungual lesions (1907) later confirmed Developed techniques for dermatological radiotherapy
Pushpa Narayan Rathie
Pushpa Narayan Rathie, Indian-born Brazilian statistician (16 November 1941 – CONTRIBUTIONS/BIBLIOGRAPHY With L.C.S.M. Ozelim & A.K. Rathie. On a new identity for the H-function with applications to the summation of hypergeometric series. Turk. J. Math. 42:924-35, 2018 With P.H. D. Silva & G.G. olinto. On a new skew generalized logistic distribution. J. Raman. Soc. Math 7 Math. Sci. 5:1-20, 2016 With R.O. Silva, P.H. D. Silva & J.M.A. Mota. On the new skew distribution using Azzalini’s formula. Mathem. Aeterna 6(4):649-73, 2016 With C.R. R. Eirado. On new invertible skew and symmetric distributions. Statis. Res. Lett. 3:17-22, 2014 With R. Matsushita & P.K Swamee. On a polygonal logistic distribution approximating the normal distribution. Invest. Math. Sci. 4:75-80, 2014 With L.C.S.M. Ozelim. General solutions of certain real degree equations and their applications. Advan. Studies Contemp. Math. 22:325-41, 2012 With M. Coutinho. A new skew generalized logistic distribution and approximation to skew normal distributions. Aligarh J. Statis. 31:1-12, 2011 With C.C.S. Caiado. New intensity functions in reliability analysis with applications (2008) With P.K. Swamee & C.C.S. Caiado. New intensity finctions in hydraulic repairable systems (2008) With P.K. Swamee & C.C.S. Caiado. A two parameter skew distribution function (2008) With P.K. Swamee, R. Matsushita & E.Y. Nakano. New indices for water quality and statistical comparisons (2007) With P.K. Swamee. On a new invertible generalized logistic distribution approximation to normal distribution (2006) With C.Q. Silva & A.E. Gomes. A bounded intensity function for repairable systems in reliability theory and applications (2006) With P.K. Swamee & E.Y. Nakano. A generalized aggregate index for water quality (2005) With P.I. Kannappan. On a generalized directed-divergence function. Czech. Math. J. 24:5-14, 1974 With P.I. Kannappan. An axiomatic characterization of generalized directed-divergence. Kybernetika 9:330-7, 1973 With P.I. Kannappan. An inaccuracy functional type β. Ann. Inst. Statis. Math. 25(1):205-14, 1973 With P.I. Kannappan. A directed-divergence function of type β. Inform. Control 20:38-45, 1972 With P.I. Kannappan. An application of a functional equation to information theory. Ann. Polon. Mathem. 26:95-101, 1972 With G.S. Okhla. On a generalized Bessel function and an integral transform. Mathem. Nachr. 51:231-40, 1971 With P.I. Kannappan. On a finctional equation connected with Shannon’s entropy. Funkc. Ekvac. 14:153-9, 1971 On generalized entropy and a coding theorem. J. Appl. Probab. 7:124-33, 1970 With G.S. Okhla. On some new generalized Bessel functions and integral transforms. Rev. Univ. Nac. Tucumán Ser. A 119:45-53, 1969 A theorem on Varma transform. Proceed. Nat. Acad. Sci. India A 39:39-41, 1969 A theorem on Hankel transform. Proceed. Nat. Acad. Sci. India A 37:1-4, 1967 A theorem on Laplace and Meijer transforms. Vijan. Parish. Anus. Patrika 8:63-9, 1965 EPONYMY Rathie-Swamee distribution F-Shah-Rathie distribution Marshall-Olkin-Swamee-Rathie distribution HONOURS IBC Outstanding People of the 21st Century (2002) Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering (2002)
Prafulla Chandra Ray
Prafulla Chandra Ray, Indian chemist (Raruli-Katipara Village, Khulna District, Bangladesh 02 August 1861 – Calcutta 16 June 1944) Authored over 150 papers Famous as historian of Indian chemistry His thesis Conjugated Sulphates of Copper Magnesium Group: A study of isomorphous mixtures and molecular combinations was judged the best in Edinburgh University winning the Hope Prize (1887) His publications on mercurous nitrite and its derivatives brought him international recognition First prepared mercurous nitrite (1896) Synthesized ammonium nitrite in pure form Characterized and prepared many compounds of zinc, cadmium, mercuric iodide, etc.
Pierfelice Ravenna
Pierfelice Ravenna, Chilean botanist (1938 – DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Valid Genera Ainea 1979 Ateixa 1971 Catila 1983 Cearanthes 2000 Cobana 1974 Colima 1968 Diamena 1987 Diora 1987 Eithea 2002 Iguala 1968 Kelissa 1981 Lethia 1986 Leucothauma 2009 Ona 2009 Onira 1983 Tocantinia 2000 Subgenera Actine 1983 Cyclogyne 2001 Enoscordum 1978 Euryscordum 1991 Fulgituba 1974 Monanthoscordum 1978 Platyscordum 1978 Surgentia 2000 Tupianthes 2003 Viruflos 1962 Sections Adnata 1988 Andesine 2000 Calolirion 1988 Elatia 1981 Juncella 1988 Lenitium 2000 Nais 1981 Nidia 2000 Nivella 2001 Platyella 1988 Scirpeocharis 2000 Segetia 2003 Sipacapa 2000 Suavia 2005 Synexa 2000 Viperella 2002 HONOURS Herbert Medal, International Bulb Society (1974)
Philippe Rasoanaivo
Philippe Rasoanaivo, Malagasy plant chemist and ethnobotanist (Ouest Ambohijanahary 13 August 1946 – Antananarivo 13 July 2016) Authored over 150 research articles and more than 70 book chapters and entries Made huge contributions in ethnobotany based drugs and phytomedicines, discovering several bioactive compounds Authored studies on hazolava, traditional plant in his native country, important for treating psychiatric and sleep disorders, convulsions and male sexual dysfunction Discovered a novel malaria chemo-sensitizing alkaloid named malagashanine Discovered some novel tropane alkaloids that reverse the multi-drug resistance of cancer cells His research on the wound-healing properties of Ilex mitis (Aquifoliaceae) gave rise to extract of trade name Fanaferol (1975) Studied alkaloids from Strychnos myrtoides (Loganiaceae) as an adjuvant therapy to chloroquine SOME OTHER DISCOVERIES With T. Fossen, A. Yahorau, S. Yahorava et al. New polyfunctional phragmalin limonoids from Neobeguea mahafalensis. Planta Med. 82(11-2):1087-95, 2016 With M. Bourjot, P. Leyssen, C. Eydoux et al. Flacourtosides A-F, phenolic glycosides isolated from Flacourtia ramontchi. J. Nat. Prod. 75(4):752-8, 2012 With M. Carraz, A. Jossang, J.F. Franetich et al. A plant-derived morphinan as a novel lead compound active against malaria liver stages. Plos Med. 3(12), 2006 PATENTS With J.E.S. Wikberg, B. Rasolondratovo & S.R. Andriantiaran. Novel compounds and pharmaceutical preparations from Neobeguea species. WO2008145996 A3 (2007) & US20100247593 A1 With D. Mazier, M. Carraz, J.F. Franetich, A. Jossang, R. Joyeau & F. Di Frappier. Alkaloid compounds and their use as anti-malarial drugs WO2005103008 A1 (2004) & EP1747200 B8 With M. Carraz, A. Jossang, J.F. Franetich, R. Joyeau & D. Mazier. Alkaloids for treatment of malaria. EP04291055 (2004) With F. Di Frappier, S.R. Ratsimamanga & A.F. Trigalo. Composes derivees d’alcaloides et leur utilisation dans le traitment de malaria et cancer. WO2003095459 A3 (2002) With S.R. Ratsimammanga, A.R. Ratsimamanga, K. Cheuk, H.C. Rabemanantsoa, J. Becquart, J. Provost & D. Reisdorf. Preparation and therapeutic uses of plants and plant extracts in the Hylocereus genus WO2005094856 With S.R. Ratsimammanga, A.R. Ratsimamanga, J. Leboul, J. Provost & D. Reisdorf. Mixtures which can be isolated from Eugenia jambolana Lamarck seeds, their preparation and the use of these mixtures and some of their constituents as medicaments 20020051828 (2002) With S.R. Ratsimammanga, A.R. Ratsimamanga, J. Leboul, J. Provost & D. Reisdorf. Mixtures derived from grains of Eugenia jambolana Lamarck preparation and use of said mixtures and some of their constituents as medicaments 5972342 (1999) & 6194412 (2001) With S.R. Ratsimammanga, A.R. Ratsimamanga, J. Leboul, J. Provost & D. Reisdorf. Sodium oxamate for the treatment of diabetic conditions 6300375 (2001) HONOURS Sven Brohult Award, International Foundation for Science, Sweden (2001) AAMPS Award, International Foundation for Science, Sweden (2008)