Carlos Renson
Carlos Renson, Belgian-born Salvadorean apothecary and plant collector (Amberes 1858 – El Salvador 30 Mar 1941) ACHIEVEMENTS Nouveau procede de recherches des Trichines dans les viandes. In Bull. de la Soc. belge de microscopie, X, p. 2i, 1884, SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With J. Puente, 1889, Informe sobre la expedición cientlfica a los ausoles de Ahuachapin: San Salvador Univ. No. 2, ser. 1 ; repr., 1929, in Garcia, MA, Diccionario Histórico-Enciclopedico de la Republica de El Salvador, Conservación del maíz y de los frijoles. Boletín de Agricultura (El Salvador) 3:483-485. 1903. Contribución a Analisis Toxicológica del Mercurio, Proceedings of the second Pan American Scientific Congress, Washington, U.S.A., Monday, December 27, 1915 to Saturday, January 8, 1916, 1915-1916, vol 12 El Tripsacum latifolium Hitchcock. Revista Agricola 5: 351-368, 1919. El Zacate jaragua, Cymbopogon rufus. Rev. Agric. Salvadoreña (1921) El Zacate Gordura. Molasses Grass (Mellinis minutiflora). Rev. Agr. Trop. 1(6): 333-337, 1928 Forraje verde para la estación seca: el Tripsacum latifolium Hitchc. Rev. Ganad. San Salvador 4(45-7):26-9, 1943 El Tripsacum fasciculatum Trinius. Rev. Agric. Salvad. 1(9):3-7, 1913 El barajillo, leguminosa forrajera de America Central. Rev. Agric. Trop. 1:65-93, Las plantas forrajeras que nos interesan: el barajillo de El Salvador. Rev. Agric. Trop. San Salvador HONORS Rensonia S.F. Blake (Asteraceae)
Carlos de Toledo Rizzini
Carlos de Toledo Rizzini, Brazilian botanist and lichenologist (Monteiro Lobato, São Paulo State 18 April 1921 – 03 October 1992) Authored with W.B. Mors & N.A. Pereira, Medicinal Plants of Brazil (2000), with international repercussion Authored with W.B. Mors Useful Brazilian plants (1966) translated into English and German Proposed a preparation method of pollen grains for mounting Estudos sobre as Acanthaceae. Bol. Mus. Nac. Rio de Janeiro, Bot. 8:1-38, 1947 DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Valid Genera Apterokarpos 1975 Arapatiella 1975 with Mattos Ixocactus 1953 Liberatia 1947 Morsacanthus 1952 Pupilla 1949 Species About 340
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao, Indian statistician and mathematician (Hwuina, Hadagalli Village, Bellary District, Karnataka State 10 September 1920 – Respected as one of great statisticians of 20th century ACHIEVEMENTS Authored over 350 research papers and 14 books Devised the criterion of second order efficiency Established optimal properties of maximum livelihood estimation Introduced differential geometric concepts in statistical inference and appear Introduced analysis of dispersion in multivariate analysis (MANOVA) Enunciated concept of orthogonal arrays of strength d (1949) Created Rao efficient score test (1947) HONORS Wilks Medal, American Statistical Association (1989) National Medal of Science, United States (2002) Mahalanobis International Award, International Statistical Institute (2003) Guy Medal, Royal Statistical Society, United Kingdom (2011) EPONYMY Cramer-Rao inequality (1945) Rao distance Blackwell-Rao theorem or Rao Blackwellization (1945) Rao-Blackwell estimator Lehman-Scheffe-Rao theorem Cramer-Rao bound Cramer-Rao functional Fisher-Rao theorem Fisher-Rao metric Rao measure Rao theorem Neyman-Rao test Rao least squares Rao covariance structure Rao U test Rao F test Rao paradox Rubon-Rao theorem Lau-Rao theorem Lau-Rao-Shanbhag theorems Rao-Yanoi generalized inverse theorem Rao-Khatri-Linnik-Shanbhag theorems on characterization of probability models Kagan-Linnik-Rao theorem Guttman-Rao relationships (1948) Rao generalized inverse of a matrix Rao quadratic entropy
Cadambathur Tirunvenkatacharlu Rajagopal
Cadambathur Tirunvenkatacharlu Rajagopal, Indian mathematician (Triplicane, Madras 08 September 1903 – Madras 25 April 1978) Authored 80 papers Recorded relations between certain classical limit theorems (1947) Proved and/or extended Tauberian theorems Gave an analogue of Edmond Landau’s theorem on partial sums of Fourier series Eponym of Rajagopal lemma
C.R. Narayan Rao
C.R. Narayan Rao, Indian herpetologist and ichthyologist (Coimbatore 15 August 1882 – Bangalore 02 January 1960) DESCRIBED VERTEBRATE TAXA Amphibia Genus Ramanella 1925 with Ramanna Species Duttaphrynus brevirostris 1937 Fejervarya modesta 1920 Indirana longicrus 1937 Indirana tenuilingua 1937 Micrixalus elegans 1937 Micrixalus kottigeharensis 1937 Micrixalus narainensis 1937 Micrixalus swamianus 1937 Nyctibatrachus kempholeyensis 1937 Nyctibatrachus sanctipalustris 1920 Nyctibatrachus sylvaticus 1937 Ramanella anamalaiensis 1937 Ramanella minor 1937 Ramanella mormorata 1937 Ramanella triangularis 1918 Ramanella variegata 1918 Raorchestes charius 1937 Sphaerotheca leucorhyncha 1937 Zakerana mysorensis 1922 Zakerana parambikulamana 1937 Zakerana sauriceps 1937 Pisces Species Botia striata 1920 Garra bicornuta 1920 Garra platycephala 1920 Nemachilichthys shimogensis 1920 HONORS Raorchestes Biju, Shouche, Dubois, Dutta & Bossuyt 2010 (Amphibia)
Bruno Rangel Pestana
Bruno Rangel Pestana, Brazilian biomedical scientist (São Paulo 15 September 1881 – São Paulo 05 December 1971) Authored 49 scientific works (until 1951) ACHIEVEMENTS Developed a serum for bubonic plague With Vital Brazil prepared anti Elaps serum and noted that species presenting great sensibility to venoms are that which produce more antibodies (1910) With Sebastião de Camargo Calazans developed agar-lactose-rosolic acid Calazans-Rangel Pestana medium for bacilli Emprego do acido rosolico no isolamento e identificação dos bacilos do grupo coli-tífico-disentérico em meios sólidos. Mem. Inst. Butantan 7:283, 1932 Discovered etiologic agent of nambiuvú or canine rangeliosis named Rangelia vitalii in his honor O nambyuvú. Rev.Med. S. Paulo 22:423-6, 1910 PATENTS With R. Hottinger. Um novo processo e dispositivo para esterilizar água e outros líquidos (nº10.843) 1920 HONORS Rangelia Carini & Maciel 1914 (Protozoa: Apicomplexa)