Samuel Barnsley Pessoa
Samuel Barnsley Pessoa, Brazilian parasitologist and sanitarian (São Paulo 31 May 1898 – São Paulo 03 September 1976) From United States ancestry Authored 352 scientific works between papers, books and monographs Authored Parasitologia Médica / Medical Parasitology (1946), adopted in foreign institutions Presented Pessoa classification of clinical forms in schistosomiasis Developed a method for Phlebotominae capture With I.A. Sherlock. Métodos práticos para a captura de flebótomos. Rev. Bras. Biol. 24:331-40, 1964 Developed Correa-Pessoa technique for preparation of Leishmania antigens Segunda nota sobre a vacinação preventiva na leishmaniose tegumentar americana com leptomonas mortas. Rev. Assoc. Paul. Med. 19:105, 1941 With V. Amato Neto & C. Magaldi. Intradermoreação para o diagnóstico da doença de Chagas com antígeno de Trypanosoma cruzi obtido de cultura de tecido. Rev. Goiana Med. 10(3-4):121-6, 1964 DESCRIBED TAXA Genera Paraeuctenodes 1936 (Mallophaga) with Guimarães Species 27 in Protozoa 8 in Mallophaga 7 in Coleoptera 2 in Diptera 2 in Arachnida 1 in Helminths HONORS Honorary Fellow, Royal Society of Tropical Medicine Pessoaia Costa Lima 1940 & Barnsleyia Correa 1956 (Hemiptera) Pessoaiella Guimarães 1940 (Mallophaga) Pessoamyia Souza Lopes 1938 (Diptera) His son, Gil Vital Alvares Pessoa, microbiologist (São Paulo 16 November 1928 – São Paulo 01 August 2012) DEVELOPED NEW CULTURE MEDIA With E.S. Peixoto. Caldo selenito-novobiacina. Um meio de maior seletividade para o isolamento de Salmonella de fezes. Rev. Inst. Adolfo Lutz 31:1-3, 1971 With D.S. Gelli. Meio para diferenciação da tribo Proteae de outras enterobactérias. Rev. Inst. Adolfo Lutz 32:95-6, 1972 With E.A.M. Silva. Meio de Rugai e Lisina-motilidade combinadas em um só tubo para a identificação presuntiva de enterobactérias. Rev. Inst. Adolfo Lutz 32:97-100, 1972 With E.A.M. Silva. Milieu pour l’identification présomptive rapide des enterobactéries, des aeromonas et des vibrions. Ann. Microbiol. 125:341, 1974 Isolated three new Salmonella serotypes With K. Irino, C.T. Calzada, M.T. Martins & P.S. Sanchez. Isolamento de três novos sorotipos de Salmonella: Salmonella cotia, Salmonella guarapiranga e Salmonella arizonae 65:1,v:z35 de águas de superfície, em São Paulo, Brasil. Rev. Inst. Adolfo Lutz 41(1):53-5, 1981
Salvador de Toledo Piza Jr.
Salvador de Toledo Piza Jr., Brazilian entomologist and cytogeneticist (Capivari, São Paulo State 28 December 1898 – Piracicaba, São Paulo State 22 January 1988) Authored over 1200 publications between books, papers and popular articles Authored papers with international repercussion on invertebrate cytogenetics With A. Zamith reported new exceptional meiotic mechanisms or mis-meiosis (1946) Discovered diffuse centromere in Tytius bahiensis DESCRIBED ORTHOPTERA & ARACHNIDA TAXA Orthoptera Valid Genera Acrephyllum 1973 Anapolisia 1980 Balneum 1967 Beierella 1978 Bertius 1974 Choirorhynchus 1974 Ctenophorema 1967 Herbardius 1980 Megatympanon 1958 Mendesius 1960 Meneghelia 1980 Metaphotina 1964 Miroceroys 1936 Paracoelophyllum 1972 Paraviadana 1980 Pelecynotum 1967 Phanerocercus 1980 Phaneropterella 1977 Phaneropteroides 1940 Piracicaba 1967 Polyurena 1967 Tympanotriba 1971 Wattenwylia 1938 Arachnida Valid Genera Anoplogynus 1938 Cercopachylus 1940 Inhuma 1938 Paratricommatus 1943 Progonyleptiodellus 1940 Styloleptes 1943 Species Over 300 being 143 in Orthoptera HONOURS Doctor Honoris Causa, Berlin University Pizaia Terra 1982 (Orthoptera) Pizacris Souza-Dias & Desutter-Grandcolas 2015 (Orthoptera)
Sadettin Pekmezciler
Sadettin Pekmezciler, Turkish geologist and mining engineer (1907 – ?) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Permocarbonifere productif du Sud de la Turquie. Compt. Rend. V Congr. Strat. Geol. Carbonifere Paris 2:655-6, 1963 Relationship between ages and degrees of carbonization of natural coals of Turkey (1961) Introduction to the Stratigraphy of Natural Coal in Turkey (1961) A general outlook on the Turkish lignites (1955) An exploration report on the Celtek lignite. M.T.A. Special Report nº 2025 (1953) With R. Egemen. Rapport geologique sur le Carbonifere d’Amasra. M.T.A. Report nº 1636 (1945) HONORS Pekmezcileripollenites Agrali 1969 (Fossil Sporae/Pollen)
Ruy Perez Tamayo
Ruy Perez Tamayo, Mexican immunologist and pathologist (Tampico, Tamaulipas State 08 November 1924 – Ensenada, Baja California State 27 January 2022) With M. Ihnen described the effect of methionine on wounds cicatrization With R. Kretschmer performed important studies on role that antibodies play in immune rejection (1953) With I. Monfort first demonstrated the presence of collagenase in the normal myocardium (1975) With I. Monfort. Two antigenically different types of macrophages. Exp. Biol. Med. 138(1):204-7, 1971 With K.K. Jain, A.J. Braze & M.A. Shapiro presented the first report of aberrant right subclavian artery and scimitar syndrome in the same patient (2012) With A. Gonzalez, I. Montfort et al. first to trace amebopore in an in vivo model of amebic liver abscesses (2008) With E. Ramos, I. Monfort et al. first to observe apoptosis in Entamoeba histolytica (2007) With M. Selman, M. Montaño & I. Monfort. A new model of diffuse interstitial pulmonary fibrosis in the rat. Exp. Mol. Pathol. 43(3):375-87, 1985 With F. Ramos Niembro, D. Alarcón & J. Alcocer proposed the use of colchicine for treatment of sclerodermia (1979) His book Mechanisms of disease. An Introduction to Pathology (1961) was utilized by medical colleges in United States HONOURS Visiting Professor at Harvard University, Johns Hopkins, Yale, Minnesota, Chicago, Galveston and Tel Aviv Universities (1980s)
Rosendo Pascual
Rosendo Pascual Ruiz, Argentine paleontologist (Godoy Cruz, Mendoza Province 10 July 1925 – La Plata 23 December 2012) Authored 143 papers Cited as the first paleomammalogist to work at Antarctic DESCRIBED FOSSIL MAMMALIAN GENERA Allocavia 1962 Anargyrolagus 2007 with Carlini & Goin Argentodytes 2007 with Kielan-Jaworowska, Ortiz-Jaureguizar, Vieytes e Goin Bonapartherium 1980 Borhyaenidium 1963 with Bocchino Campanorco 1984 with Bond & Vucetich Chasichimys 1967 Chasicorays 1967 Cocatherium 2006 with Goin, Tejedor, Geffo et al. Monotrematum 1992 with Archer, Ortiz-Jaureguizar et al. Neoanchimys 1961 with Bondesio Ocnerotherium 1954 Oxybunotherium 1965 Palangania 1998 with Goin, Candela, Bond & Escribano Paradelphomys 1968 with Patterson Patagonia 1987 with Carlini Pattersomys 1967 Predidolops 1980 Procardiomys 1961 Reigia 1983 Simpsonotus 1979 with Vucetich & Fernandez Sudamerica 1985 with Scillato-Yané Xenocardia 1963 with Bondesio Xylechimys 1968 with Patterson Species At least 35 HONORS (Fossil Mammalia) Rosendolops Goin & Candela 1996 Pascualihippus Shockey 1997 Pascualdelphys Flynn & Wyss 1999 Pascualgnathus Bonaparte 1966 Pascualia Ortega Hinojosa 1963 Pascualodus Gelfo 2004
Rodolfo Pasqualini
Rodolfo Quirino Pasqualini Guzzetti, Argentine endocrinologist (Buenos Aires 20 May 1909 – Buenos Aires 18 March 2004) ACHIEVEMENTS Developed Pasqualini-Etala test or pitressin test for exploration of renal function With E. Etala. Hipófisis y excreción de cloruro de sodio. Rev. Soc. Arg. Biol. 16:161-73, 1940 Discovered Pasqualini syndrome or pseudoeunuchoidism With G. E. Bur. Sindrome hipoandrogenico con gametogenesis conservada: clasificación de La insuficiência testicular. Rev. Assoc. Med. Arg. 64:6, 1950 First to demonstrate the therapeutic action of sodium salicylate upon rheumatic fever El tratamiento de la fiebre reumatica,una larga experiencia y una hipótesis personal. Prensa Med. Arg. 37(15):757-69, 1950 Discovered oligophrenia associated with Klinefelter syndrome With G. Vidal & G.E. Bur. Psychopathology of Klinefelter’s syndrome. (Review of thirty-one cases). Lancet 273(6987):164-7, 1957 Demonstrated antidipsetic action of pitressin (ADH) With A. Codeville. Thirst-suppressing (antidipsetic) effect of pitressin in diabetes insipidus. Acta Endocrinol. 30:37-41, 1959 His wife, Christiane Dosne de Pasqualini, French-born Argentine oncologist (Paris 09 February 1920 – Buenos Aires 23 December 2022) Authored over 400 publications CONTRIBUTIONS Papel bivalente del sistema inmune en el crecimiento tumoral (Bivalent role of the immune system in tumor growth). Medicina 64(3):277-80, 2004 With F. Benavides, M. Giordano, L. Fiette, A.L.B. Bruniatti, N.M. Palenzuela, S. Vanzulli, P. Baldi, R. Schmidt & J.L. Guenet. Nackt (nkt), a new hair loss mutation of the mouse with associated CD4 deficiency. Immunogenetics 49(5):413-9, 1999 With R. Laguens. A new approach to immunotherapy of cancer based on autologous T-lymphocytes (1987) With L. Rumi, M.E. Colmerauer, R. Braylan & S.L. Rabasa. Phenomenon of enhancement associated with murine leukemia. Medicina 31(5):372-6, 1971 With F. Saal. New approach to the etiology of human lymphomas based on a murine model (1971) METHODS With C. Giraudo Conesa & L. Rumi. An improved method for PHA culturing mouse lymphocytes using Ficoll Hypaque gradient (1976) With L. Rumi. I. Larripa & S. Brieux de Salum. An improved method for cytogenetic studies of solid murine tumors (1974)