Enrique Perez Arbelaez
Enrique Perez Arbelaez, Colombian Jesuit, scientist and author (Medellín 01 March 1896 – Bogotá 22 January 1972) Authored 37 books Described the plant species Lindsaea colombiana (1928) Metodo quimico-industrial para la desfibración de las bromeliáceas. Rev. Acad. Colomb. Ciencias 6(22-3):235-43, 1945 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Plantas utiles de Colombia (1947) Hilea Magdalenesa – Prospección económica del valle tropical del Río Magdalena (1949) Recursos naturales de Colombia HONORS Arbelaezaster Cuatrecasas 1986 (Asteraceae) LINKS http://www.accefyn.org.co/sp/academicos/Silla_15_Enrique_Perez_Arbelaez.htm (bibliography)
Edwin Percy Phillips
Edwin Percy Phillips, South African botanist (Sea Point, Cape Town 18 February 1884 – Cape Town 12 April 1967) Authored over 200 scientific papers DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genera Allenia 1944 Basutica 1944 Inezia 1932 Keetia 1926 Pseudognidia 1944 Pseudoscolopia 1927 Spatallopsis 1946 Stapeliopsis 1932 Struthiolopsis 1944 Stultitia 1933 Susanna 1950 (for his wife Susan Kriel) Theilera 1927 Ursiniopsis 1951 Species 255 HONOURS Erepsia N.E. Brown 1925 (Aizoaceae)
Eduardo Palma
Eduardo Carlos Palma Bellmunt, Uruguayan surgeon (Montevideo 28 July 1907 – 1994) Of Genovese descent from paternal side Authored 223 scientific works Developed a venous bypass for femoropopliteal arteriopathy employing autologous vein (1956) First described surgical bypass of iliofemoral vein utilizing the contralateral saphenous vein as a crossover graft known as cross over vein graft or Palma operation With F. Risi, H. Tobler & F. del Campo. Tratamiento de los trastornos postflebiticos mediante anastomosis venosa safeno-femoral cotrolateral. Bull. Soc. Surg. Uruguay 29:135-45, 1958 With R. Esperon. Vein transplants and grafts in the surgical treatment of the post-phlebitic syndrome. J. Cardiovasc. Surg. 1:94, 1960 Described juvenile syndrome of Hunter canal and ring of third adduct or stenosing juvenile arteriopathy of Hunter canal or Palma’s syndrome in chronic obliterative arteriopathies Stenosed artheriopathy of the Hunter canal and loop of the adductor magnus. Amer. J. Surg. 83:723, 1952 Described the lesions known as hemodynamic arteriopathies, an important etiopathogenic cause of arteriosclerosis (1954-9) Suggested the hemotraumatic origin of arteriosclerosis (1968) Proposed the viral origin of schizophrenia (1952) DESCRIBED/DEVELOPED TECHNIQUES/METHODS Developed a technique of transcecal ileostomy internationally known Established a technique for identifying branchings of bile ducts via incisions Perfected the sigmoid descending pull-trough and the Pfannenstiel operation Simultaneous colostomy and ileostomy – ileostomy with an autonomically continent sphincter. World J. Surg. 6:130-7, 1982 A technique for posterior fossa exposure. Psychiat. Neurol. Neurochir. 65:97-102, 1962 With R.J. Rodríguez Martínez, W. Perillo & F. Fernandez. Technic of approach of the posterior fossa. Bol. Soc. Cir. Uruguay 30:82-93, 1959 With H. Delgado. Treatment of abdominal eventration by means of plastic repair with mobilization of the costal border. Bol. Soc. Cir. Uruguay 30:60-4, 1959 (a procedure for treatment of middle eventrations through resection of cartilaginous costal flanges) Technic of osteoplastic craniotomy for brain surgery. Bol. Trab. Soc. Cir. Buenos Aires 41:25-41, 1957 (Sp. Number) Perfectionization of thoracolaparotomy. An. Paul. Med. Cir. 69(2):133-51, 1955 With E. Peluffo, H.C. Bazzano & J.C. Beltrán. Cerebral hydatid cyst in a 3 year old child: surgical technic and results. Arch. Pediat. Uruguay 23(2):102-15, 1952 With J. Rodríguez Juanotena. Contribution to the technique of median laparotomy. Arch. Urug. Med. Cir. Espec. 36(6):517-24, 1950 Lumbar sympathectomy: technic and results. Bol. Soc. Cir. Uruguay 21(5):505-24, 1950 With C. Bordoni Posse & J.J. Estable. La tecnica de arteriografia de contraste y sus resultados. Rev. Inform. Terap. 19:106, 1937 HONOURS Foreign Associate Member, Academie de Chirugie de France (1978) Honorary Member, French Association of Surgery (1979) Ratschow Gedachtnis Gold Medal, Germany (1983)
Edna Pauline Plumstead
Edna Pauline Janisch Plumstead, South African palaeobotanist, stratigrapher and coal geologist (Cape Town 15 September 1903 – Johannesburg 23 September 1989) Authored the first report about fossil fructifications of Glossopteris species being then invited to Geological Society of London (1953) DESCRIBED FOSSIL PLANTAE TAXA Valid Genera Hirsutum Jongmansis 1961 Lanceolatus 1952 Lerouxia 1961 Pluma 1958 Scutum 1952 Vannus 1963 Species Bifariala intermittens 1958 Euryphyllum antarcticum 1969 Gangamopteris stephensonii 1973 Gladiponum dutoitides Glossopteris fuchsii 1962 Gonophylloides strictum Jongmansis transvaalensis 1958 Lanceolatus derouxides 1952 Lanceolatus palaeovittarius Otozamites antarcticus 1962 Ottokaria buriadica 1956 Ottokaria transvaalensis 1956 Platyphyllum albanense 1967 Pluma longicaulis 1958 Plumsteadia lerouxii Plumsteadia stricta 1958 Scutum leslium 1952 Scutum thomasii Vannus gondwanensis 1963 Walikalia juckesii 1975 HONORS (Fossil Plantae) Plumsteadia Rigby 1963 Plumsteadiella Le Roux 1966 Plumsteadiostrobus Chandra & Surange 1977
Edmundo Pisano
Edmundo Enrique Pisano Valdés, Chilean plant geographer and ecologist (Punta Arenas, Magallanes & Antartica Chilena 19 May 1919 – Santiago de Chile 20 March 1997) Described Fuchsia magellanica var. eburnea 1979 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY La estepa patagônica como recurso forrajero en Aysén y Magallanes (1984) Bosquejo fitogeográfico de Fuego-Patagonia. Anal. Inst.Patagonia 12:159-71, 1981 Fitogeografia de Fuego-Patagonia chilena (1977) Caractreristicas de la biota magallanica derivadas de factores especiales. Anal. Inst.Patagonia 6:123-37, 1975 Fitogeografia de la Peninsula de Brunswick. Anal. Inst.Patagonia 4:141-206, 1973 La vida en los Parques Nacionales. Anal. Inst.Patagonia (1973) Estudio ecológico preliminar de Parque Nacional “Los Pinguinos” (Estrecho de Magallanes). Anal. Inst.Patagonia 2(1-2):76-95, 1971 Geografia econômica de Chile (1950) Esquema de clasificación de las comunidades vegetales de Chile. Agronomia 2(1):30-33, 1956 La vegetación de las distintas zonas geográficas chilenas. Rev. Geogr. Chile Terra Australis 11:95-107, 1954 With C. Muñoz Pizarro. Estudio de la vegetación y flora de los parques nacionales de fray Jorge y Talinay. Agric. Tecnica 2, 1947 Tipos de vegetación y fitoclimas em la Transecta Botanica de la Patagonia austral HONORS Pisanoa Haessel 1989 (Hepaticae)
Edmundo Pereira
Edmundo Pereira, Brazilian botanist (Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro State 19 March 1914 – Rio de Janeiro 16 May 1986) Authored 53 papers DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Bromeliaceae 110 species, 30 varieties, one subspecies and 4 forms Others 3 species, 3 varieties and one form HONORS Edmundoa Leme 1997 (Bromeliaceae)