Ananda R. Rao
Ananda R. Rao, Indian palaeobotanist (fl. 1931-81) DESCRIBED FOSSIL PLANTAE TAXA Genera Cycadophytites 1959 with Bose Dicotylirhizos 1957 Nipaniorhua 1946 Nipaniostrobus 1943 Ontheodendron 1931 with Sahni Podostrobus 1971 with Bose Rajmahalia 1934 with Sahni Species Cycadophytites florini 1959 with Bose Dicotylirhizos sahnii 1957 Dictyozamites hallei 1933 with Sahni Nipaniorhua granthia 1947 Nipaniostrobus sahnii 1943 Ontheodendron florini 1931 with Sahni Palmoxylon feistmantelii 1969 with Achutan Palmoxylon kraeuseli 1966 with Menon Palmoxylon mahabalei 1967 with Menon Palmoxylon maheshwarii 1964 with Menon Palmoxylon narayanii 1962 with Menon Palmoxylon parthasarathyi 1964 with Menon Podostrobus rajmahalensis 1943 Rajmahalia paradoxa 1934 with Sahni Sphenopteris rajmahalensis 1934 with Sahni Stachyotaxus sampathkumaram 1963 Others Algae Genus Oedogoniites 1957 Species Cyclotella iyengaria 1962 with Awasthi Oedogoniites palanensis 1957 Fungi Species Microthyriacites cooksinae 1959 Microthyriacites sahnii 1959 Palaeosordaria lagena 1959 Perisporiacites varians 1959 Phragmothyrites edwardsii 1958 Pollen/Sporae Genus Podosporites 1943 Species Alisporites auriculiformis 1943 Alisporites jurassicus 1943 Pityosporites nipanica 1943 Podosporites tripakshii 1943 Sporites magadhensis 1943 Sporites navicula 1943 HONORS Raoanthus Chitaley & Patel 1975 (Fossil Plantae)
Amílcar Arandas Rego
Amílcar Arandas Rego, Portuguese-born Brazilian helminthologist and parasitologist (Barcelos, Portugal 30 June 1934- GENERA & SPECIES DESCRIBED (Helminths) Genera Lentiella 1964 Cleberia 1967 Parachoanotaenia 1967 Brayela 1984 Gibsoniela 1984 Jauella 1985 (with Pavanelli) Harriscolex 1987 Houssayela 1987 Travassiella 1987 (with Pavanelli) Nupelia 1991 (with Pavanelli) Paramonticellia 1991 (with Pavanelli) Mariauxiella 1995 (with de Chambrier) Brooksiella 1999 (with Chubb & Pavanelli) Chambriella 1999 (with Chubb & Pavanelli) Euzetiella 1999 (with de Chambrier & Vaucher) Pseudocrepidobothrium 2001 (with V. Ivanov) Scholzia 2005 with Pertierra & Chambrier Species 50 Others 3 species of Trypanosoma See www.diplectanum.dsl.pipex.com/rego
Americo Ricaldoni
Jose Domicio Americo Ricaldoni Saroldi, Uruguayan clinical pathologist (Montevideo 21 October 1868 – Montevideo 06 July 1928) From Italian parentage Brother of Teobaldo J. Ricaldoni ACHIEVEMENTS Reported the first clinical cause of amebic granuloma With A. Berta. La disenteria amibiana en el Uruguay. An. Fac. Med. Montevideo 1:31-190, 1916 Developed hematological techniques for distinguishing cytologically the different types of leukemic conditions With A. Berta. Estados leucemicos y paraleucemicos. An. Fac. Med. Montevideo 1:477-593, 1916 Described Pancoast-Tobias tumor Paralisis atrofica radicular inferior del plexo braquial, por esclerosis epiteliomatosa procedente del domo pleural, en el curso de um cancer latente del pulmón. Las lesiones irradiantes del domo pleural. Anal. Fac. Medic. Montevideo 3, (1918) Achieved the first indirect record of intracranial pressure (1925) before French Janny and Swedish Lundberg First to show definitely the hereditary character of Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome With A. Isola. Enfermedad congenita familiar caracterizada por una atrofia adipose-genital a una retinitis pigmentosa y polidactilia. An. Inst. Neurol. Montevideo 1:456-70, 1927
Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri
Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri, Indian / Bengali physicist (Barisal, British India 14 September 1923 – 18 June 2005) Authored 48 papers and 6 books Derivated Raychaudhuri equation independently of Landau Relativistic cosmology. I. Phys. Rev. 98:1123, 1955 Enunciated Raychaudhuri theorem Theorem for non-rotating singularity free universes. Phys. Rev. Lett. 80:645, 1998 A new theorem in relativistic cosmology. Mod. Phys. Lett. 15:391, 2000 EPONYMY Raychaudhuri identity Raychaudhuri scalar
Alvaro Reynoso
Alvaro Francisco Carlos Reynoso y Valdés, Cuban agronomist and chemist (Alquízar, Habana Province 04 November 1829 – La Habana 11 August 1888) ACHIEVEMENTS Nouveau procédé pour reconnaitre l’iode et le brome. Ann. Chimie et Phys. 26:285, 1849 Note sur plusieurs nouvelles combinations de l’amoniaque avec les cyanoferrures et, en particulier, avec le cyanoferrure de nickel. Comptes Rendus 33:409 & Ann. Chimie et Phys. 30:252, 1850 Sur un nouveau mode de separation de l’acide phosphorique d’avec les oxydes metalliques. Note sur le preparation des acides metalliques. Comptes Rendus 32:644, 1851 Demonstrated the action of water on many compounds under high pressure and temperature Action de l’eau, une haute temperature et sous une forte pression sur les pyrophosphates, metaphosphates, cyanures. Comptes Rendus 34:18 & 795, 1852 Memoire relative a l’action de l’eau sur divers corps une haut temperature et dans une forte pression. Comptes Rendus 36:230 &411, 1853 Memoire sur la presence du sucre dans le uries et sur la liaison de ce phenomene avec la respiration (1853) (prize-winner memory by Institut de France) Modified the Melsens procedure for sugar extraction from sugarcane Nota sobre el empleo del bisulfito de cal en la fabricación del azucar. Diario de la Marina 07 March 1859 Nuevo procedimiento para separar la magnesia de la potasa y la sosa. Mem. Real Soc. Acad. Ciencias (1863) Published Memoria obre la Presencia de sangre em la orina de las personas sometidas a La inalación de medicamentos anestesicos, with which received Montyon Prize of Medicine and Surgery from Academie des Sciences de Paris (1854) His doctoral thesis Investigaciones sobre la formación del eter was published in Annales de Chimie et de Physique de Paris (1856). This research was well received in French and Spanish scientific circles. Proposed reducting sugar cane in pulp until to obtain a homogenous paste favouring total extraction of juice and to amplify his percentage Conceived Reynoso system, an integral system of agrotechnical measures for intensive cultivation of sugar cane whose principles are in currency until in our days Published Ensayo sobre el cultivo de la caña de azucar or Essay about sugar cane cultivation (1862), that was regarded as one of the main works about sugar cane and translated to many languages, revolutionising sugar industry due to introduce scientific methodology in yield and management INVENTIONS Devised an apparatus for making the sugar cane produce 80% of sugar. This invention was silver medal distinguished at Industrial Fair of Paris (1878) Patented a new method of sugar crystallization employing cold treatment A patent about dividing sugar cane in rough sticks using rotative knifes (1874) A new alumina defecator A method to preserve permanently fresh meat joint its odor, color and flavour A solution for embalming corpses (1858-9) HONORS Reynosia Grisebach 1866 (Rhamnaceae)
Aline Renoux
Aline Renoux-Meunier, Caribbean phycologist of Guadeloupe (fl.1965-94) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With D. Pietkiewicz et al. Notes taxinomiques préliminaires sur Caulerpa taxifolia et Caulerpa mexicana (1994) Inventaire des algues marines des cotes d’Haiti (1978) Etude preliminaire de la flore algale de la mangrove du Grand Cul de sac marin. Nouv. Agron. Antilles-Guyane. 3(2):77-97, 1977 With G. Renoux. Notions d’écobiocoenotique marine, excursions en Martinique (1975) Etude de la végétation algale du cap Saint-Martin (Biarritz). Bull. Cent. Etudes Rech Sci. Biarritz 5:378-564, 1965 HONOURS Renouxia Fredericq & Norris 1995 (Rhodophyta)