Setembrino Petri
Setembrino Petri, Brazilian paleontologist and stratigrapher (Amparo, São Paulo State 25 September 1922 – São Paulo 01 March 2023) DESCRIBED FOSSIL MOLLUSCA & FORAMINIFERA TAXA Genus Guiratingia 1966 with Fulfaro (Bivalvia) Mendesia 1962 (Foraminifera) Species Actinopteria langei 1967 Ammobaculites copei 1962 Ammobaculites hartti 1962 Ammonia mendesi 1957 Angulogerina paraensis 1957 Anomalina calumbiensis 1957 Anomalinoides itatigensis 1962 Anomalinoides petrobrasi 1962 Bigenerina euzebioi 1962 Bolivina pirabensis 1957 Bolivina rhombica 1954 Bolivina striatula 1954 Bolivina tinocoi 1962 Cibicides americanus 1954 Cibicides cururuensis 1954 Cibicides mendesi 1962 Cibicides pirabensis 1957 Cibicidina hoelfeldi 1962 Cibicidina paraensis 1957 Cibicidina sergipana 1962 Conorbella americana 1957 Dentalina borgesi 1962 Dentalina mirandai 1962 Discopulvinulina pirabensis 1957 Discorbis lisboai 1962 Discorbis paraensis 1957 Elphidium limbatum 1954 Elphidium paraensis 1954 Elphidium tropicalis 1954 Eoguttulina anderyi 1962 Eoguttulina kreidleri 1962 Eponides aracajuensis 1962 Eponides leinzi 1962 Fissurina depressula 1957 Fusulinella silvai 1952 Globotruncana campbelli 1962 Globulina tropicale 1957 Guembelitria kegeli 1962 Guiratingia mendesi 1966 with Fulfaro Lagena bulloides 1957 Lenticulina benderi 1962 Lenticulina guedesi 1962 Lingulina assisi 1962 Lingulina kelleri 1962 Marginulina gardneri 1962 Marginulina loefgreni 1962 Mendesia minuta (or Vialovia minuta) 1962 Nodosaria carltoni 1962 Nodosaria mourai 1962 Nonion canecensis 1957 Nonionella curvisulcata 1954 Nonionella garaia 1952 Nonionella leonardosi 1952 Nonionella pirabensis 1957 Parafissurina hemisphaerica 1957 Paramillerella derbyi 1956 Planomalina mauryae 1962 Planularia derbyi 1962 Planulina cotinguibensis 1962 Pseudoglandulina wanderleyi 1952 Pseudopolymorphina tropicale 1957 Pseudovalvulineria sergipana 1962 Quinqueloculina avelinoi 1962 Quinqueloculina crandalli 1962 Quinqueloculina fusiformis 1957 Quinqueloculina sopperi 1962 Reophax hyatti 1962 Reophax whitei 1962 Reussella moraisii 1962 Robulus pauloi 1962 Spiroloculina henbesti 1955 Spiroplectammina japericensis 1957 Spiroplectammina lenkoi 1962 Spiroplectammina regoi 1962 Tetrataxys zellerorum 1956 Textularia curta 1954 Textularia leinzi 1955 Textularia marajoara 1954 Trifarina barnesi 1972 Trochammina japericensis 1957 Trocholina silvai 1962 Vaginulina duartei 1962 Valvulineria amarali 1962 Verneuilina branneri 1962 Others (Fossil) Invertebrata Ilyocypris bertini 1999 with Gobbo-Rodrigues Phyloblatta roxoi 1945 Pisces Genus Taquaralodus 2010 with Chahud Species Orodus ipeunaensis 2010 with Chahud Sphenacanthus sanpauloensis 2010 with Chahud & Fairchild Algae Lychnothamnus barbosai 1955 HONORS (Fossil) Petriaia Mussa, Borghi, Bergamaschi, Schubert, Pereira & Rodrigues 1996 (Plantae) Petriathyris Lee & Jin 2006 (Brachiopoda) Petrisigmoopsis Pinto & Purper 1981 (Ostracoda)
Sergio Porto
Sergio Pereira da Silva Porto, Brazilian physicist (Niterói, Rio de Janeiro State 19 January 1926 – Novosibirski, Siberia 21 June 1979) Recognized as world authority in spectroscopy and laser His laboratory at Bell Labs became one of the most important laboratories in the field of solid state spectroscopy Authored over 150 papers First to use laser radiation as an excitation source in Raman spectroscopy With D. L. Wood. Ruby optical maser as a Raman source. Optical Society of America 52(3): 1962. With H. Kogelnik first to obtain Raman spectra using He-Ne continuous laser (1963) With N. Jannuzzi. New singlet transitions in the near infrared spectrum of molecular hydrogen. Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy, 11(15):378-384, 1963. With A.A. Ballman & A. Yariv. Calcium Niobate Ca(NbO3)2: a new laser host crystal. J. Appl. Physics. American Institute of Physics, 34(11): 3155 – 3136, 1963. First to observe Raman scattering from F centers With J.M. Worlock. Raman scattering by F centers. Phys. Rev. Lett. 15:697-9, 1965 Co-discovered thermal lens effect With J.P. Gordon, R.S. Moore, J.R. Whinnery & R.C. C. Leite. Long transient effects in laser with insert liquid samples. J. Appl. Physics 36:3, 1965 First to observe polaritons in ionic crystals With B. Tell & T.C. Damen. Near forward Raman scattering in zinc oxide. Phys. Rev. Lett. 16:450-2, 1966 Introduced Porto notation With T.C. Damen & B. Tell. Raman effect in zinc oxide. Phys. Rev. 142:570-4, 1966 First to observe light scattering from spin waves With P. A. Fleury, L.E. Cheesman & H.J. Guggenheim. Light scattering by spin waves in FeF2. Phys. Rev. Lett. 17:84-7, 1966 Co-discovered resonance Raman effect With R. C. C. Leite. Enhancement of the Raman cross section in Cdc due to resonant Absorption. Physical Review Letters 17:538, 1966 First to observe optical activity in Raman spectra With J.F. Scott. Longitudinal and transverse optical lattice vibrations in quartz. Phys. Rev. 161:903-10, 1967 Observed Raman cross-section of gases With A. Weber, L.E. Cheesman & J.J. Barrett. High resolution Raman spectroscopy of gases with CW-laser excitation. J. Optic Soc. Am. 5:9-28, 1967 Observed anti-symmetric electronic Raman scattering With A. Kiel, T.C. Damen, S. Singh & F. Varsanyi. Asymmetry in the electronic and phonon Raman effects in CeCl3. IEEE J. Quant. Elect. 4:318, 1968 With A. Kiel. Selection rules for electronic Raman effect. J. Molecular Spectroscopy 32(3):458-68, 1969 Observed symmetry-forbidden first-order Raman spectra in disordered solids With P.F. Williams. Symmetry-forbidden resonant Raman scattering in Cu2O. Phys. Rev. B 8:1782-5, 1973 Generalized Lyddane-Sachs-Teller relation for ordered-disordered crystals With A.S. Chaves. Generalized Lyddane-Sachs-Teller relation. Solid State Communications 13:865-8, 1973 Observed dynamic disorder in crystals using Raman scattering With A. S. Chaves & R.S. Katiyar. Coupled modes with A1 symmetry in tetragonal BaTiO3. Phys. Rev. B 10:3522-33, 1974 Discovered a process for obtaining heavy water (1979) CONTRIBUTIONS TO MEDICINE AND OTHERS With J. A. H. de Freitas et al. performed the first in the world glaucoma operation employing argon laser (1975) Developed the first in the world technique of tympanum transplant in man employing laser With L. H. Escudero, A.O. Castro, M. Drumond, D.G. Bozinis, A.F.S. Penna & E. Gallego-Lluesma. Argon laser in Human Tympanoplasty. American Medical Association 105:252, 1979 Proposed using laser for uranium isotopic separation DEVICES/PATENTS A quantitative and Easily operated x – rays detecter. May 1961 With C. A. Arguello & D.L. Rousseau. A Double beam raman spectrometer. With D. Landon. A tandem spectrometer to detect laser – exited Raman radiation. Appl. Optics. 4: 762, 1962. With R. C. C. Leite. A simple method for calibration of ruby laser output. Sep. Proc. IEEE 51(4): 1963. With C. T.Lin, T. D. Z. Atvars et al. A low cost and high efficiency helium recycling system for CO2 laser. With A. Szule, J. Pereira Neto, J. Rezende et al. Construction and perfomance of a high resolution grating spectrometer. Anais Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 1960. 32(1): 25-30, 1960. With Gary D. Boyd, Phase – Matched Raman Radiation Amplifier and Oscillator. U.S. Patent Office jan. 24, 1967. With N. Nassau & A. Yariv. Optical maser comprising the active medium CaWO4:Pr. U. S. Patent Office no 3,258,716, 258, 716. jun. 28, 1966. With W. Proffitt, L.M. Fraas & P. Cervenka. An interferometric rejection filter for Raman spectroscopy. Appl. Opt. 10:531, 1971
Santiago Pinasco
Santiago Felipe Pinasco Carreras, Argentine atomic physicist (20 May 1922 – 09 January 2006) DEVELOPED With R.A.P. Gayoso described a modified linear pulse amplifier (1958) With M. C. Kopp a micro-microammeter (1958) Transistorized linear amplifier (1960) With C. Marazzi. Electrical meter amplifier (1962) Aerial prospecting equipment for uranium (1962) With J.R.Lorenzetti a linear amplifier (1963) With J.L. Blankenship. Design of low-noise vacuum tube pulse amplifiers for semiconductor-detector spectroscopy (1965) With A. Battisto. Integrador logarítmico y medidor de período, velocidad de respuesta y fluctuación estadística (1967) Linear pulse amplifier with three tubes
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)