Eduardo Rapoport
Eduardo Hugo Rapoport, Argentine ecologist and biogeographer (Buenos Aires 03 July 1927 – From Jewish Russian ancestry Anticipated the vicariance concept Defined transition zones Obtained the first evidences in favour of Rapoport rule named in his honor (1975; 1982) With M.V. Capparelli & J.E. Rabinovich. La irregularidad, un nuevo parametro para describir la distribución espacial de organismos. Acta Cient. Venez. 22(1):26-7, 1971 Una medida de la micro-heterogeneidad en la distribución espacial de los artropodos edáficos. Folia Entomol. Mex. 23-4:113-5, 1972 DESCRIBED COLLEMBOLA TAXA Genera Araucanocyrtis 1968 with Massoud Brachygastrura 1962 Delamarellina 1963 with Rubio Mucrotoma 1963 with Rubio Neorganella 1963 with Rubio Notachorudina 1962 with Cassagnau Parastomella 1968 with Rubio Probrachystomella 1962 Species 87 HONOURS (Collembola) Rapoportina Salmon 1964 Rapoportella Ellis & Bellinger 1973 Raponella Najt 1988 Honorary Member, Ecological Society of America (1996)
Edmundo Alfredo Ruveda
Edmundo Alfredo Ruveda, Argentine organic chemist (Corrientes 18 March 1934 – Rosario 14 December 2018) With M.D. Preite, J, Zinczuk, M.I. Colombo, J.A. Bacigalupo & M. Gonzalez Sierra. Resolution and absolute configuration of a tricyclic lactone. A potentially useful precursor of highly functionalized terpenoids. Tetrahedron Asymmetry 4:17, 1993 With M. Gonzalez Sierra, A.C.Olivieri & M.I. Colombo. The absolute stereochemistry of the novel dioxiaspiroditerpenoids strictanonic and grindelistrictiacid . Stereoselective synthesis of strictanonic acid methyl esther and its C6 epimer. J. Chem. Soc. Perkin Trans. I 1:1393, 1989 With T.S. Kaufman & M. Gonzalez Sierra. Synthesis of an Alberta oil sand bitumen CJ10 tricyclic carboxylic acid bering a novel diterpenoid skeleton (1988) With A.C. Olivieri & M. Gonzalez Sierra. Stereoselective synthesis of the novel bisnorditerpene grindelistrictic acid, isolated from Grindelia strictis. J.Org. Chem. 51:2824, 1986 With M.P. Mischne & M. Gonzalez Sierra. Synthesis of the novel marine diterpenes isocopal-12-en-15,16-dial, 14-epi-Isocopal-12-en-15,16 dial and 15-acetoxy-Isocopal-12-en-16-al from methyl isocopalate. J. Org. Chem. 49:2035, 1984 With M. Gonzalez Sierra & R.A. Spanevello. Simple and efficient synthesis of 3-oxo-2,6,6-trimethylcyclohex-1-ene-1-carboxylic acid, a key synthon for rac-strigol. J. Org. Chem. 48:5111, 1983 With D.S. de Miranda, G. Brendolan, P.M. Imamura, M. Gonzalez Sierra & A.J. Marsaioli. Stereoselective synthesis of the enantiomer of the novel marine diterpene isoagatholactone, it-13,16: sporgiadien-12-aol, and the parent hydocarbon isocopalane from methyl isocopalate. J. Org. Chem. 46(24), 1981 With P.M. Imamura & M. Gonzalez Sierra. Stereoselective synthesis of the novel marine diterpene (+) isoagatholactone. Chem. Soc. Chem. Comm. 734 (1981) With H.A. Priestap & J.D. Bonafede. Argentilactone, a novel 5-hydroxyacid lactone from Aristolochia argentina. Phytochem. 16(10):1579-82, 1977
Edgard Roquette Pinto
Edgard Roquette Pinto, Brazilian anthropologist, ethnologist and writer (Rio de Janeiro 25 September 1884 – Rio de Janeiro 18 October 1954) His full name was Edgar Roquette Carneiro de Mendonça Pinto Vieira de Mello Performed anthropometric measurements in Indians of Nambiquara, Paresis and Urupás tribes With B. Vinelli Baptista. Contribution à l’Anatomie Comparée des Races Humaines (1926) Laid the basis of forensic entomology in tropical lands With O. Freire. Nota sobre a fauna cadavérica no Rio de Janeiro. A Tribuna Médica 21:413-7, 1908 With O.B. de Couto e Silva & A. Ozorio de Almeida. Sobre um novo veneno sagitário dos índios Purus-Borós. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias (1926) Honored in genus Roquettea Mello-Leitão 1931 (Arachnida)
Dorival da Fonseca Ribeiro
Dorival da Fonseca Ribeiro, Brazilian chemist (Campinas, São Paulo State 16 November 1907 – Atibaia, São Paulo State 1960) Authored 32 works OBTAINED/SYNTHESIZED NEW COMPOUNDS Obtained the urucine from Bixa orellana in Rev. Biol. Hyg. 6:68-90, 1935 Sobre um novo sal de bismuto – Iodo-lecitanato de bismuto Rev. Biol. Hyg. 4:44-6, 1934 Contribuição ao estudo da aurotherapia. Sobre um novo composto áurico, o morrhuato de ouro. Bras. Med. 29:577, 1934 Síntese de um novo sal de ouro. Bras. Med. 20:557, 1934 DEVELOPED METHODS Sobre um método de esterificação de ácidos graxos (1934) Esteres de ácidos gordos e seu emprego em hypodermia. Sobre um methodo de esterificação (1934) Methodo rápido de anályse ponderal (1936) WORKS IN ENGLISH Influence of sulfanilamide on the germination of seeds. J. Biol. Chem. 152(3):665-7, 1944 Penicilin action on the germination of seeds. Science 104 (288):18, 1946 BIBLIOGRAPHY Mem. Inst. Butantan 30:5-9, 1960-2
Dioscoro Rabor
Dioscoro Siarot Rabor, Philippine zoologist and conservationist (Carcar, Cebu 18 May 1911 –College Laguna, Luzon 25 March 1996) DESCRIBED VERTEBRATE TAXA Aves Species Dicaeum proprium 1966 with Ripley Erythura coloria 1961 with Ripley Micromacronus sordidus 1968 with Ripley Napothera sorsogonensis 1967 with Rand Otus mirus 1968 with Ripley Ptilimopus arcanus 1955 with Rand Stachyris nigrorum 1952 with Rand Subspecies With Rand Aethopyga boltoni malindangensis 1957 Aracnothera clarae malindangensis 1957 Brachypteryx montana andersoni 1967 Coracina striata boholensis 1959 Corvus enca sierramadrensis 1961 Cyornis herioti camarinensis 1967 Dasylophus superciliosus cagayanensis 1967 Dicaeum anthonyi masawan 1957 Dicaeum hypoleucum cagayanense 1967 Dicaeum trigonostigma isidro 1969 Ficedula hyperythra malindangensis 1957 Ficedula westermanni palawanensis 1962 Harpactes ardens linae 1959 Harpactes ardens luzonensis 1952 Hypothymis azurea catarmanensis 1969 Ixos everetti catarmanensis 1969 Lanius validirostris quartus 1957 Napothera sorsogonensis sorsogonensis 1967 Pachycephala philippinensis siquijorensis 1957 Phylloscopus cebuensis sorsogonensis 1967 Ptilocichla mindanensis fortichi 1957 Pycnonotus goiavier samarensis 1960 Pycnonotus urostictus ilokensis 1957 Rhabdornis inornatus zamboanga 1957 Rhinomyias ruficauda boholensis 1957 Rhinomyias ruficauda zamboanga 1957 Sitta oenochlamys zamboanga 1957 Sitta oenochlamys isarog 1967 Stachyris nigrocapitata boholensis 1957 Stachyris whiteheadi sorsogonensis 1967 Trichoglossus johnstoniae pistra 1959 Zosterops nigrorum catamarensis 1969 Zosterops nigrorum sierramadrensis 1969 With Ripley Brachypteryx montana sillimani 1962 Cettia vulcania palawana 1962 Lonchura leucogastra palawana 1962 Ninox scutulata palawensis 1962 Pericrocotus speciosus gonzalesi 1961 Phylloscopus trivirgatus benguetensis 1958 Pitta erythrogaster thompsoni 1962 Pyrrhula leucogenis coriaria 1961 Serinus estherae mindanensis 1961 With Du Pont Macronous striaticeps alcasidi 1973 Mammalia Petinomys mindanensis 1939 Crocidura negrina 1952 Dobsonia chapmani 1952 Crateromys australis 1985 with Musser & Heaney Reptilia (with Brown in 1967) Brachymeles boholensis Brachymeles cebuensis Brachymeles mindorensis Brachymeles orientalis Sphenomorphus diwata
Diego Rodríguez
Diego Rodríguez, Mexican mathematician, astronomer and engineer (Atitalac, Hidalgo State 1596 – Ciudad de Mexico 1668) He was a mercedarian Performed important contributions to knowledge of comets Determined Mexico city longitude (1638), more accurate that measurements from A. Von Humboldt centuries later Elaborated his own logarithmic tables of trigonometric functions independent from E. Gunter BIBLIOGRAPHY Modo de Calcular qualquier eclipse del Sol y Luna Doctrina General repartida por capítulos de los eclipses del Sol y Luna Tratado de las ecuaciones. Fabrica y uso de La tabla algebraica discursiva Tractatus Proemiabium Mathematices y de Geometria De los logaritmos y aritmetica Tratado del modo de fabricar reloxes horizontales, verticales, etc. Discurso ethereologico del nuevo cometa, visto en aqueste Hemisferio Mexicano y generalmente em todo el mundo este año de 1652 Authored optical notes about light refraction or reflexion and a treatise about logarithms and its applications (c.1642) too. These works are lost