Ignacio Rodríguez Iturbe
Ignacio Rodríguez Iturbe, US / Venezuelan hydraulic engineer (Caracas 08 March 1942 – 28 September 2022) Internationally respected as expert on hydraulic climatology Recognized as the foremost surface water hydrologist in the world Described tridimensional fundamental structure of hydrographic cuencas and the mechanisms that give rise of them Formulated one of the first self-similar models to simulate extreme behavior Introduced Bayesian approaches to estimate parameters of stream flow simulating models and to select models of extremes Developed the Geomorphological Instantaneous Unit Hydrograph (GIUH) to quantify the discharge of a basin as function of basin geometry and rainfall First to provide a sound theoretical basis for sampling the rainfall process in space and time Showed that organization of the basin and resulting landscape patterns are not the result of randomness but process-driven phenomena that can be quantified in terms of well-defined principles Superheaded the use of point processes and fields to represent precipitation in space and time Showed that simple nonlinearities in the land-atmosphere dynamics have on patterns of hydrologic variables (i.e. soil moisture) First to connect the geomorphologic structure of the river basin to its hydrologic response with the theory of geomorphologic unit hydrograph With A. Rinaldo defined optimal channel networks and First to establish the connection between optimality and fractal growth (1997) First to provide a sound theoretical basis for the way drainage basins and their networks are arranged (1997) Developed a simple model for predicting the biodiversity of fish in river networks (2008) Developed methods to quantify the accuracy and value of hydrologic data Introduced Bayesian approaches to improve different models for river flows and to predict the likelihood of extreme hydrological events Showed that nature transports water and sediment out of the watershed in the most energy efficient way possible Established equations that yielded the drainage pattern that nature will produce under different climatic and geologic conditions Formulated the mathematical representation of rainfall as random, active point processes Defined the concept of ecohydrology Authored 4 papers in Nature and 23 in Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences USA LINKS https://www.princeton.edu/cee/people/data/i/irodrigu/Bio.pdf https://www.princeton.edu/cee/people/data/i/irodrigu/CV.pdf
Hugo Roberts Fernandez
Hugo Roberts Fernandez, Cuban sanitarist and military physician (Trinidad, Las Villas Province 20 July 1868 – La Habana 05 June 1948) Patented a thermos regulator (1925) Invented a device to generate and inject hydrocyanic acid into antrum of the rats (Golden Medal in San Francisco World Fair, 1915)
Hilton Rocha
Hilton Ribeiro da Rocha, Brazilian ophthalmologist (Cambuquira, Minas Gerais State 23 December 1911 – Belo Horizonte 23 May 1993) Authored over 100 papers ACHIEVEMENTS Improved surgical technique for catarata with intraocular lens implant Developed an immune therapy for retinitis pigmentosa Discovered a method of viewing the angle of the anterior chamber With L.J. Antunes, L.E. Ferreira & J.A. Nogueira Machado. Lymphocytes and glucocorticosteroids in vitro: a new auxiliary technique for identification of open angle glaucoma. Metabolic Ophthal. 2:15-17, 1978 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY O ângulo da câmara anterior. Thesis (1942) With J. Alves Garcia. Ophtalmoplegia externa bilateral congênita familial. Brasil Med. 4:4, 1937 Roentgen examination in ophthalmology. Ophthalmos 1:62-78, 1939 With P. Elejalde. Em torno da classificação dos gliomas da retina. Ophthalmos 2:294-307, 1941 Molluscum contagioso. Ophthalmos 2, 1943 With E. Coscarelli. Lenticone anterior. Ophthalmos 2:219-26, 1943 Cromomicose conjuntival primitiva. Ophthalmos 3(2):205-18, 1943 Hipoplasia do nervo óptico. Arq. Bras. Oftalm. 8:1-9, 1945 With R. Soares. Conjuntivite lenhosa. Rev.Bras. Oftalm. 14(1):17-36, 1955 Ya-til une ophtalmie sympatique sans perforation? Bull. Mem. Soc. Franc. Ophtal, 1959 With J.M. Queiroz. Ensaios de hetero-transplante lamellar e desidratação da córnea pelo cloreto de sódio. Arq. Inst. Penido Burnier 18, 1961 With P.G. Galvão. Caso de cisticerco subretiniano juxta-papilar tratado pela fotocoagulação. Rev. Bras. Oftal. 22:41-49, 1963 With P. G. Galvão. Contribution a la thérapeutique du cysticerque intraoculaire. Bull. Mem. Soc. Franc. d’Opht 79:401, 1966 With P.G. Galvão. Immunological aspects of corneal heterografts. Int. Ophthal. Clin. 6:19, 1966 Some aspects of cryo-ophthalmology. Akt. Ophthal. Probl. 65:126-46, 1974 Der transferfaktor in der Ophthalmologie. Klin. Monatsbl. Augenheild 171:63-70, 1977 With L.J. Antunes. Primary retinitis pigmentosa: Autoimmunity? Metab. Ophthalmol 1:153-6, 1977 With P. G. Galvão , L.J. Antunes & J. Boteon. Imunologia e córnea. Anais Oftalm. 1(1):47-80, 1982 Patologia do segmento posterior como causa de deficiência visual na infância. Anais Oftalm. 2(1):92-5, 1983 Progressos e tendências no tratamento dos tumores intraoculares. Anais Oftalm. 3(1):43-53, 1984 AgS. Uveites e retinose pigmentar. Arqu. Bras. Oftalm. 50(2):94-9, 1987 HONORS Chevalier d’ Honner, Santé Publique de France Cavara Medal, Univ. Eye Clinic, Rome
Hilario Roxas
Hilario Atanacio Roxas, Philippine marine zoologist (Mariquina, Rizal 29 October 1896 – ?) DESCRIBED MARINE SPECIES Fish Taenioides caniscapulus 1938 with Ablan Ciliate Protozoa Metacylis kofoidi 1940 Rhabdonella fenestrata 1940 Tintinnidium ampullarium 1941 Tintinnopsis bacoorensis 1940 Tintinnopsis manilensis 1941 Cnidaria Anthelia elongata 1933 Anthelia molenderi 1933 Anthelia palawanense 1933 Capnella sabangensis 1933 Cespitularia hypotentaculata 1933 Cespitularia quadriserta 1933 Dendronephthya griffini 1933 Dendronephthya guggenheimi 1933 Dendronephthya malaya 1933 Dendronephthya manyanensis 1933 Dendronephthya moseri 1933 Heteroxenia lighti 1933 Heteroxenia medioensis 1933 Heteroxenia mindorensis 1933 Heteroxenia minuta 1933 Heteroxenia palmae 1933 Heteroxenia philippinensis 1933 Heteroxenia pinnata 1933 Lemnalia bantayensis 1933 Lemnalia bournei 1933 Lemnalia faustinoi 1933 Lemnalia grandispina 1933 Lemnalia scasa 1933 Lemnalia zimmeri 1933 Litophyton lighti 1933 Litophyton orientale 1933 Sansibia boquetei 1933 Sarcophyton moseri 1933 Sarcophyton tersum 1932 Stereonephthya campanulata 1933 Xenia amparoi 1933 Xenia cylindrica 1933 Xenia delicata 1933 Xenia felicianoi 1933 Xenia fisheri 1933 Xenia flava 1933 Xenia intermedia 1933 Xenia kukenthali 1933 Xenia lilieae 1933 Xenia mayi 1933 Xenia puertogalerae 1933 Xenia schenki 1933 Xenia tripartita 1933
Henrique Roxo
Henrique de Brito Belford Roxo, Brazilian psychiatrist (Rio de Janeiro 04 July 1877 – Rio de Janeiro 17 February 1969) Authored Manual de Psiquiatria (Handbook of Psychiatry) that was greeted by German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin (1921) Described a new form of delirious psychosis that named chronic automated hallucinatory delirium Systematized chronic hallucinatory delirium. Arq. Bras. Neur. Psiq. (1913) Developed Roxo method (treatment of intermittent delirium employing intramuscular injections of atropine valerianate) Proposed a method for treating epilepsy employing bromide, luminal, belladonna and potassium boric tartrate (1925) Proposed formulations and treatments for melancholia, cenesthesia, epilepsy and schizophrenia Proposed the importance of oculo-cardiac reflex in the diagnosis of psychosis Desequilibrio vago-sympathico nas doenças mentaes. Methodo especial de diagnostico differencial pela pesquiza do reflexo oculo-cardíaco (1936) Methodo practico para facilitar a diagnose de uma doença mental. O Globo (January 28, 1935) Eponym of Cephalic jitters or Roxo disease
Henrique da Rocha Lima
Henrique da Rocha Lima, Brazilian tropical physician and anatomical pathologist (Rio de Janeiro 24 November 1879 – São Paulo 12 April 1956) ACHIEVEMENTS Described genus Rickettsia and species Rickettsia prowazeki, etiologic agent of exanthematic typhus independently from H. Topfer (1916) With M. Mayer & H. Werner performed histopathological studies on bartonellosis (1913) Recognized nature and origin of Carrión disease or bartonellosis Characterized histopathologically bartonellosis discovering intracellular localization of its etiologic agent known as Rocha Lima inclusions Described Rocha Lima lesion or sign that is a hepatic mediolobular necrosis used as post-mortem diagnosis of yellow fever Demonstrated that epizootic lymphangitis and histoplasmosis were fungal diseases (1913) Performed histopathological studies on blastomycosis (1923-4) Laid the basis of histopathological classification of blastomycosis that was widely used Demonstrated histologically birds contagious epithelioma virus Described calcium inclusions of the kidney in yellow fever (1912) before Hoffmann (1924) TECHNIQUES Developed a technique for demonstrating elementary bodies in avian bouba With H. Aragão developed a technique of bacteriological diagnosis for plague with results in 16 hours Developed a method of vital coloration Established a technique to obtain vaccine for typhus OTHERS With K.M. Silberschmidt & J. Reis authored Methoden der Virusforschungen later incorporated to Abderhalden’s Handbuch der biologischen Arbeitsmethoden (1939) With Miguel Couto wrote chapters about yellow fever in Carl Mense’s Handbuch der Tropenkrankheiten (1929) and Nicola Pende’s Endocrinologia, Patologia I Clinica degli organi a secrezione interna (1923-4) HONORS/EPONYMY Bernhard Nocht Medal, Tropeninstitut (1921) Subgenus Rochanyssus Castro 1948 (Acari) Councilman-Rocha Lima corpuscles or bodies Rocha Lima test