Chakravartula Gopal Krishna Ramanujam
Chakravartula Gopala Krishna Ramanujam, Indian palaeobotanist and palynologist (Guntur, Andhra Pradesh State 25 August 1931 – DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Sporae/ Pollen Bacubrevitricolpites 1981 with Rao Baksipollis 1985 with Reddy & Sharma Clavapalmaedites 1978 with Rao Clavaperiporites 1966 Clavasyncolpites 1981 with Rao Clavatricolporites 1966 Crotonisulcites 1978 with Rao Crotonoidaepollenites 1981 with Rao Echinosulcites 1975 with Rao Edvapollis 1975 with Rao Farsonsidites 1982 Foveoretitricolpites 1975 with Rao Grandizonaropollis 1966 Hexagonopollis 1985 with Reddy & Sharma Hippocrateaceaedites 1966 Iridacidites 1987 Jacobipollenites 1966 Loranthipites 1982 with Rao Margocolporites 1966 Neyvelipollenites 1966 Neyvelisporites 1972 Ornasporonites 1978 with Rao Ornatetradites 1981 with Rao Ornatriporites 1981 with Rao Padappakkarapollis 1981 with Rao Paravuripollis 1978 with Rao Pentadesmapites 1985 with Reddy & Sharma Permathyrites 1982 Pseudocolpopollis 1975 with Rao Quilonipollenites 1978 with Rao Retipilonapites 1966 Scabramonoletes 1966 Striatocolporites 1966 Trilatiporites 1966 Triquetropollis 1984 with Reddy & Sharma Fungi Alleppeysporonites 1979 with Rao Cannanorosporonites 1979 with Rao Foveoletisporonites 1979 with Rao Hapalophragmites 1980 with Ramachar Milesites 1980 with Ramachar Palaeoamphisphaerella 1980 with Srisailam Palaeocirrenalia 1980 with Srisailam Pucciniasporonites 1980 with Ramachar Ravenelites 1980 with Ramachar Retihelicosporonites 1979 with Rao Warkallisporonites 1979 with Rao Plantae Bischofioxylon 1960 Bridelioxylon 1956 Dalbergioxylon 1960 Glochidioxylon 1956 Putranjivoxylon 1956 Tamarindoxylon 1959 HONORS (Fossil) Ramanujamiaspora Kar & Sah 1970 (Sporae/Pollen) Ramanujamiastrobus Srivastava 1996 (Plantae) Ramasricellites Kalgutkar & Jansonius 2000 (Fungi) Ramanujamipalmaephyllum Banerjee, Mitra & Das 2005 (Plantae)
Cecilio Romaña
Cecilio Felix Romaña Berón de Astrada, Argentine parasitologist (San Javier, Santa Fe Province 16 June 1899 – Barcelona, Spain 09 February 1997) Authored about 180 works (120 of them on Chagas disease) Described ocular chagome or Romaña sign Acerca de un sintoma inicial de valor para el diagnostic de la forma aguda de la enfermedad de Chagas. La conjuntivitis schizotripanosomica unilateral (hipótesis sobre la puerta de entrada conjuntival de la enfermedad). MEPRA 22:16-25, 1935 Established technical basis for Chagas disease prophylaxis employing residual action insecticides (i.e. Gammexane or BHC in 1947) independently from Pellegrino & Dias With J.W. Abalos. Acción del “Gammexane” sobre los triatomídeos. “Control” domiliciario. An. Inst. Med. Reg. Tucumán 2:95-106, 1948 With J.W. Abalos described the hemipteran species Triatoma delpontei 1947 Patented a procedure for treatment of reactive antigen for diagnosis of chronic listeriosis Procedimiento para la preparación de um antigen reactivo para la diagnosis de la listeriosis cronica. Spanish patent, 1981
Carmen Emilia Benitez de Rojas
Carmen Emilia Benítez de Rojas, Venezuelan botanist (1937 – DESCRIBED SOLANACEAE TAXA Cestrum darcyanum 1999 with Sawyer Cestrum jaramillanum 1995 with D’Arcy Cestrum neblinense 1990 with D’Arcy Cestrum ruizteranium 1995 with D’Arcy Cestrum tilletti 1995 with D’Arcy Cuatresia hunzikeriana 1995 with Martínez Deprea paneroi 1992 with Martínez Lycianthes francisci 2000 Schwenckia alvaroana 2006 Schwenckia huberi 1990 Schwenckia trujilloi 1990 Sessea jorgenseni 2001 Solanum badilloi 1987 Solanum orientale 1984 Solanum valadinervium 1985 with Knapp Witheringia wurdackiana 1997 HONORS Rojasimalva Fryxell 1984 (Malvaceae)
Carlos Rusconi
Carlos Rusconi Sassi, Argentine paleontologist and archaeologist (Buenos Aires 02 November 1898 – Mendoza 22 February 1969) From Italian parentage Authored about 500 works Described one subfamily Eumysopinae (1935) and two species Catagonus wagneri 1930 & Ctenomys australis 1934 of living mammals DESCRIBED NEW GENERA Trilobita 39 Mammalia Acrotypotherium 1936 Allalmeia 1946 Brasilochoerus 1930 Interchoerus 1930 Macrocavia 1933 Megactenomys 1930 Nothydrochoerus 1935 Notopachyrucos 1933 Parachoerus 1930 Tapiralium 1934 Tranyocastor 1936 Xenohydrochoerus 1934 Pisces Anatoia 1946 Caminchaia 1946 Cenechoia 1946 Challaia 1946 Echentaia 1946 Guaymayenia 1946 Neochallaia 1949 Pasambaya 1946 Reptilia Acrohydraspis 1934 Ancanamunia 1942 Ilchunaia 1946 Notocaiman 1937 Purranosaurus 1948 Rhamphostomopsis 1933 Uruguaysuchus 1933 Xenosuchus 1933 Amphibia Chigutisaurus 1948 Icanosaurus 1950 Otuminisaurus 1948 Crustacea Culampaia 1949 Estheriopsis 1947 Huarpeana 1954 Graptolita Challapora 1949 Mendograptus 1950 Notograptus 1948 Aves Cunampaia 1946 Querandiornis 1958 Echinodermata Antunia 1955 Salagastiana 1951 Mollusca Charruia 1955 Quilicanella 1952 Cnidaria Mendoconularia 1951 Mendopora 1948 Bryozoa Paraguataia 1948 HONORS Rusconia Kraglievich 1931 (Fossil Mammalia)
Carlos Ruiz Fuller
Carlos Enrique Ruiz Fuller, Chilean geologist and mining engineer (Valparaíso 23 September 1916 – Santiago 28 March 1997) From English and Danish ancestry Described a new Kind of metamorphic bed of contact Los yacimientos de hierro de la región noroccidental de Copiapó, un tipo no descrito de yacimiento de contato metamórfico. Boletín Minero 552:820-87, 1943 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Distribution and characteristics of Chilean copper deposits (1990) With F. Peebles. Geologia, distribución y genesis de los yacimientos metalíferos de Chile (1988) With I. Hayami & S. Maeda. Some late Triassic Bivalvia and Gastropoda from the Domeyko range of North Chile. Trans. Proc. Paleont. Soc. Jpn. NS 108:202-21, 1977 With A.B. Vistelius, D.N. Ivanov & Y. Kuroda. Variations of modal composition of granitic rocks in some regions around the Pacific. Math. Geology 2(1):63-80, 1970 With A.B. Vistelius. On the origin of variations in the composition of granitic rocks of Chile and Bolivia (1969) With O.A. Moraga & A. Aguilar. Genesis of the Chilean iron ore deposits of Mesozoic age (1968) Discusión sobre el origen de los yacimientos de hierro (1967) La geologia y la mineralogenetica en America Latina (1965) Distribución y origen de la mineralización em Chile (1965) With W.H. Diment, F.O. Ortiz & L.R. Silva. Terrestrial heat flow at two localities near Vallenar, Chile (1965) With G. Ericksen. Metallogenetic Provinces of Chile, S.A. Economic Geology 57:91-106, 1962 With K. Segerstrom. Geologia del Cuadrangulo Copiapó. Inst. Invest. Geol. (1962) With K. Segerstrom & L. Aguirre. Edades plomo-alfa y marco estratigrafico de granitos chilenos. Con una discusión acerca de su relación con la orogénesis (1960) With J.F.McAllister & Hector Flores W. Quicksilver deposits of Chile. Bull. Geol. Survey 964, 1950 Posibilidades mineras de Aysén (1946) Estudio geologico y economico de los distritos de Ojancos y Punta del Cobre, Copiapó (1940) HONORS Carlosruizite Konnert, Evans, McGee & Ericksen 1994 (Mineral)
Carlos Rivero Solar
Carlos Rivero Solar, Venezuelan inventor (Cabure, Falcón State 04 November 1826 – Cabure, Falcón State 13 June 1904) INVENTIONS Water-powered mill A machine to hull coffee beans A machine for grinding sharp tools like machetes, knifes and others A rodent trap A wood drill El Pájaro Serrano, a hawk-inspired flight apparatus (1868)