Woon Hah Paik
Woon Hah Paik, South Korean entomologist (13 January 1917 – 2000) Genus Angelacarus 1980 (Acari) SPECIES Angelacarus coreanus 1980 (Acari) Atheroides suwonensis 1971 (Hemiptera) Caenohomalopoda koreana 1981 with Tachikawa & Paik Delphioniobium hanla 1971 (Hemiptera) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY A check list of Formicidae (Hymenoptera) of Korea. Korean J. Plant Prot. 23:193-5, 1984 Catalogue of parasite predator-host insects of Korea (1982) Tentative catalogue of the oribatid mites (Cryptostigmata: Acari) of Korea. Kor. J. Plant Prot. 19:251-7, 1980 Notes on Protura. Korean J. Plant Prot. 18:189-98, 1979 With J. Namkung. Studies on the rice paddy spiders from Korea (1979) A list of Oribatei (Acari) of Korea. Korean J. Plant Prot. 17(4):231-5, 1978 Biology of the dung beetles in Korea. Bull. Coll. Agric. Seoul Nat. Univ. 1:153-95, 1976 With J. Namkung & H.J. Paik. Spider fauna of the mulberry fields at Suwon, Korea (1973) Illustrated Encyclopedia of Fauna and Flora of Korea. Insecta 5 (1972) & 6 (1978) Scale insects found in the green house in Korea. Kor. J. Pl. Prot. 11(1):1-4, 1972 With D.E. Lee, K.S. Woo & J.D. Park. Aphid fauna of Cheju island (Quelpart Island). Bull. Aphid Lab. 1:13-22, 1969 With S.S. Choi. Host plant catalogue of the Korean aphids. Bull. Aphid Lab. 1:23-50, 1969 Correlation between the vector densities and the rate of potato virus infections. Kor. J. Pl. Prot. 8:7-8, 1969 With U.B. Poik & J.J. Shim. Flight rhythms of aphids at Suwon. J. Plant Prot. 7:1-4, 1969 With J.S. Hyun & S.Y. Choi. Study on the flying dispersal of the rice stem borer, Chilo suppressalis (Walker), tagged with radioactive phosphorus. J. Seoul Nat. Univ. 19B:36, 1968 Preliminary survey of flying aphids in the coastal areas. Kor. Obs. 9:38-48, 1968 Insect pests of rice in Korea (1967) Aphids of Korea (1965) With J.S. Park. A list of pests in Korea (1963) With S.K. Yun, S.Y. Choi & M.S. Im. Control of the rice stem borer (Chilo suppressalis) with the new insecticides. Plant Prot. 1:51-3, 1962 Citrus insect problems in Quelpart Island. Jour. Appl. Zool. 1(1):33, 1958 The burying beetles of Korea. Corentomon, Suwon 1(1):2-12, HONORS Woonpaikia Park 2010 (Lepidoptera)
Wladimir Lobato Paraense
Wladimir Lobato Paraense, Brazilian parasitologist and malacologist (Igarapé-Mirim, Pará State 16 November 1914 – Rio de Janeiro 11 February 2012) Internationally known as leading expert on Planorbidae Mollusca Authored 171 papers Developed in vitro culture of exo-erythrocytary form of Plasmodium gallinaceum With H. Meyer & V. Menezes. Estudos sobre Plasmodium gallinaceum. Comportamento dos esporozoitos em cultura de baço embrionário. Rev. Bras. Biol. 2(1):89-94, 1942 Proved existence of exo-erythrocyte cycle in malaria independently of Reichenow & Mudrow (1943; published in 1944) O ciclo exoeritrocitário dos parasitas da malária. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 41(3):469-93, 1944 Demonstrated that malarial parasites induce production of distinct antibodies and specific ones to distinct phases of each cycle Aspectos parasitários observados no local inoculado com esporozoítos de Plasmodium gallinaceum. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 38: 353-359. (English summary: 357-359)(1943) Ação patogênica das formas exoeritrocitárias do Plasmodium gallinaceum. 1. Investigações preliminares. 2. Prova terapêutica da ação patogênica. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 44: 147-192. (English summary: 185-192), 1946 Described a method for concentrate miracidia With L.R. Correa. Variation in susceptibility of populations of Australorbis glabratus to stran of Schistosoma mansoni. Rev. Inst. Med. Trop. S. Paulo 5:15-22, 1963 With I.N. Deslandes. The renal ridge as a reliable character for separating Taphius glabratus from Taphius tenagophilus. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 8:456-72, 1959 Sperm sharing in Biomphalaria snails. Nature 325(6106):737, 1987 DESCRIBED SPECIES/SUBSPECIES Gastropoda Mollusca Australorbis inflexus 1956 with Deslandes Australorbis intermedius 1962 with Deslandes Biomphalaria amazonica 1966 Biomphalaria cousini 1966 Biomphalaria occidentalis 1981 Biomphalaria oligoza 1974 Biomphalaria orbignyi 1975 Biomphalaria tenagophila guaibensis 1984 Drepanotrema lineatum 1971 Gyraulus percarinatus 2005 Lymnaea rupestris 1982 Plesiophysa dolichomastix 2002 Diptera Aedes lepidus 1945 with Cerqueira HONORS Telebasis paraense Machado 1956 (Odonata) Echinostoma paraensei Lie & Basch 1967 (Trematoda) Eimeria lobatoi Ferreira, Araújo, Confalonieri, Chame e Ribeiro 1992 (Protozoa) Culicoides lobatoi Felippe-Bauer & Quintelas 1994 (Diptera) Man of the Year, American Biographical Institute (1997) Biographies in International Who’s Who & Dictionary of International Biography
Wenzhong Pei
Wenzhong Pei / Wenchung Pei, Chinese anthropologist, archaeologist and paleontologist (05 March 1903 – 18 September 1982) Discovered Zhoukoudian man (1929) DESCRIBED FOSSIL MAMMALIA TAXA Genus Fenhoryx 1958 Species Ailuropoda microta 1962 Ailuropoda minor 1962 Arctonyx minor 1987 Canis cyonoides 1934 Canis variabilis 1934 Crocidura wangi 1936 Elephas kiangnanensis 1987 Felis teilhardi 1934 Fenhoryx wanchihyii 1958 Hyaena zdanskyi 1934 Hydropotes pleistocenica 1941 with Teilhard de Chardin Hystrix magna 1987 Microtus complicidens 1936 Oriensictis melina 1934 Pachycrocuta licenti 1934 Tetralophodon liuchengensis 1987 Trilophodon wufengensis 1965 Youngia epitingi 1941 with Teilhard de Chardin Subspecies Viverricula malaccensis fossilis 1987 HONORS (Fossil) Peisorex Kowalski & Li 1963 (Mammalia) Peilepis Wang 1984 (Pisces) Peia Li 2009 (Pisces)
Walter Pinto Jr
Walter Pinto Jr., Brazilian clinical geneticist (1944 – ABOUT DISEASES With L. Toma, C.P. Dietrich & H.B. Nader. Caracterização bioquímica de uma nova mucopolissacaridose. Arq. Biol. Tecnol. 24:67-9, 1981 With A. Billis, A.C. Lima, l.S. Queiroz, E.M. Cia & E.R. Oliveira. Adenoma of bladder in siblings with renal dysplasia. Urology 16(3):299-302, 1980 (found renal dysplasia in adenoma of urinary bladder) With L.I. Gardner, R.L. Neu, R.S. Shah, M. Co, E.R. Lehr & G.A. Bahr. Family with three apparently balanced t (3:15) (p27;q22) translocation carriers. Amer. J. Dis. Children 133:1002-5, 1979 With L.I. Gardner & P. Rosenbaum. Abnormal genitalia as a presenting sign in two male infants with hidantoin embryopathy syndrome. Amer. J. Dis. Children 131:452-5, 1977 METHODS With G.L. Acacio, R. Barini, R.L.S. Ximenes, H. Pettersen & M. Faria. Nuchal transparency: an ultrasound marker for fetal chromosomal abnormalities. São Paulo Med. J. 119 (1):19-23, 2001 With B. Beiguelman. Ficha clínica para recém-nascidos com alguma alteração da morfogênese: uma proposta. Braz. J. Genetics 3:819-26, 1991 With A.F.N. Magalhães, B. Beiguelman, A.S. Pereira & R.A. Pereira Filho. Simplificação da prova de respiração calórica para o diagnóstico da síndrome de Gilbert. Arq. Gastroent. 15:73-8, 1978 With B. Beiguelman. A new approach to dermatoglyphic studies. Rev. Bras. Pesq. Med. Biol. 4:305-9, 1971
Visconde de Prados
Camilo Maria Ferreira Armond, visconde de Prados, Brazilian scientist (Barbacena, Minas Gerais State 07 August 1815 – Rio de Janeiro 14 August 1882) Studied and worked in France as aide-préparateur under physician Marie Guillaume Alphonse Devergie (1798-1879) His thesis, Essai sur l’etude de la vie at Academie de Medecine de Paris (1837), was acclaimed by experts Studied the flora of Rio de Janeiro State corresponding with botanist Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794-1868) Performed astronomical studies and published them in Tratado de Astronomia Aplicada e de Geodesia from Emmanuel Liais and in Anais do Imperial Observatório Astronômico da Corte Authored report about 1865 solar eclipse in Comptes Rendus de Academie des Sciences de Paris and annual report of Smithsonian Institute Won awards at International Gartenschau 1869 (Hamburgo) and World Fair 1876 (Philadelphia) due to quality of coffee produced in his farm Santa Sofia OFFICES President, Deputy Chamber (1864-6; 1878-82) Governor of Rio de Janeiro (1878-9) HONORS Pradosia Liais 1872 (Sapotaceae)
Vijay Kumar Patodi
Vijay Kumar Patodi, Indian mathematician (Guna, Madhya Pradesh 12 March 1945 – Mumbai 21 December 1976) Derived a formula for the index of a linear elliptic operator on a compact manifold (1971) With Atiyah & Singer introduced eta invariant, a special invariant of a compact Riemannian manifold (1973-5) First to prove local equivariant Atiyah-Singer index theorem Gave a combinatorial formula for Pontryagin classes (1976) Invited Lecturer, International Congress of Mathematicians (1974) EPONYMY Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index theorem Atiyah-Bott-Patodi index theorem Atiyah-Bott-Patodi space Atiyah-Patodi-Singer invariant Patodi cancellation lemma