Bruno Carlos Palombini
Bruno Carlos Palombini, Brazilian pneumologist (Rio Grande do Sul State c.1935 – Porto Alegre 06 June 2015) Authored over 290 papers and 4 books ACHIEVEMENTS With P.R.K. Souza. A new technique for improving the reproducibility of rate of sweating and sweat composition in the diagnosis of cystic fibrosis (1970) With P.R.K. Souza. Cystic fibrosis: an improved diagnostic method utilizing constant current iontophoresis (1972) Proposed a pulmonary cycle for Mammomanogamus laryngeus With L.C. Severo, L.M. Conci, J.J. Camargo & M.R. André Alves. Syngamosis: two new Brazilian cases and evidence of a possible pulmonary cycle. Trans. Royal Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 82(3):467-8, 1988 With D.V. Godoy, C.S.O. Palombini & C.S. Martins Filho. Recognition of the type and pattern of bronchial asthma: suggestion of adoption of new classification upon the analysis of 258 cases. Chest 100:59, 1991 Proposed a progressive protocol for asthma control With L.C.C. da Silva, J.L. Hetzel, L.M.C. da Silva & P.G. Cardoso. Um milagre na pneumologia: a solução terapêutica para os asmáticos. Rev. Med. Santa Casa 9(16):1651-61, 1998 Showed definitely the triad in chronic cough With C.A.C. Villanova, E. Araújo, O.L. Gastal, D.C. Alt, D.P. Stolz & C.O. Palombini. A pathogenic triad in chronic cough. Asthma, postnasal drip syndrome and gastroesophageal reflux disease. Chest J. 116(2):279-84, 1999 Coined the term Airwayology to describe an integrated view of airway diseases With N.S. Porto, E. Araújo & D.V. Godoy. Doença das vias aereas: uma visão clínica integradora (Viaerologia) (2001) HONOURS Visiting Professor, University of Pennsylvannia Who’s Who in the World (1996)
Bento Pickel
Bento José Pickel, German-born Brazilian Benedictine monk and botanist (Markelsheim, Bad Mergentheim State 28 July 1890 – São Paulo 04 April 1963) Authored over 130 scientific and popular papers Dermatite purulenta produzida por duas espécies de Paederus sp. (Col. Staph). Rev. Entomol. 2(3):775-93, 1940 DESCRIBED PLANTAE SPECIES Gossypiospermum crimeanum 1958 Mimosa coelho-de-moraesii 1958 with Handro Myrocarpus leprosus 1955 Saranthe marcgravii 1939 Terminalia camuxa 1958 Terminalia mameluco 1958 HONORS Pickeliana Mello Leitão 1932 (Arachnida)
Benjamin Peary Pal
Benjamin Peary Pal, Indian plant geneticist and breeder (Mukundpur, Punjab 26 May 1906 – New Delhi 14 September 1989) Authored over 160 scientific publications and 5 books DEVELOPED NP700 and NP800 series (varieties of wheat) which combat a particular type of rust N809 variety of wheat that can combat all 3 types of rust (1954) More than 40 varieties of roses HONORS Benjpalia Subramanian & Bhatt 1989 (Fungi)
Benedito de Oliveira Paiva
Benedito de Oliveira Paiva, Brazilian agronomist (Pirapetinga, Minas Gerais State 12 November 1889 – Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul State 26 March 1974) Performed studies about plant tolerance to toxic aluminium of soils Proposed a scale to characterizing the wheat sensibility to acidity of soils Seleção e adubo (1944). This work was translated into English as Selection and Fertilization in the annals of congress Plant Adaptation to Mineral Stress in Problem Soils occurred in Beltsville, Maryland, United States (1976) DEVELOPED VARIETIES & CULTIVARS Wheat Colonias Trintanni Trapeano Trintecinco Patriarca Novosurto Riosulino Farrapo Combate Nordeste Planalto Alegrete Seberi Toropi Others Quarentão (maize) Moravia 2 (oat) LINKS Www.cnpt.embrapa.br/pesquisa/agromet/pdf/trigo_rumo/trigo_no_brasil.pdf
Baini Prashad
Baini Prashad, Indian malacologist and ichthyologist (Kirtapur, Punjab 17 January 1894 – Calcutta 18 January 1969) Discovered that the mantle was specifically responsible for the production of shell sculpture in Vivipariidae DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Mollusca Genera Balwantia 1919 Eocremnoconchus 1928 Eolymnium 1919 Indonaia 1918 Indopseudodon 1922 Saptadonta 1934 Sinonovacula 1924 With Annandale Alocinma 1919 Astenothyra 1921 Atyscaphander 1924 Heudiella 1924 Parafossarulus 1924 Turbinicola 1921 Pisces Genera (with Mukerji 1929) Indostomus Parasphaerichthys Species Glyptothorax burmanicus 1929 with Mukerji Homaloptera rupicola 1929 with Mukerji Indostomus paradoxus 1929 with Mukerji Leptocephalus milnei 1919 with Southwell Leptocephalus vermiculatus 1919 with Southwell Microphis dunckeri 1929 with Southwell Olyra horae 1929 with Mukerji Parasphaerichthys ocellatus 1929 with Mukerji Pseudolaguvia tuberculata 1929 with Mukerji Cestoda Genera Ilisha 1918 with Southwell HONORS Bainidiplosis Mani 1935 (Diptera)
Authos Pagano
Authos Gloi Ischiros Mateo Domingo Pagano, Uruguayan-born Brazilian economist, lawyer, statistician and philosopher (Montevideo 21 September 1903/9 – São Paulo 12 March 1976) Authored over 2,500 articles and 12 books His doctoral thesis O coeficiente instantâneo de mortalidade (1939) gained acclaim and received a Cuban prize His Lições de Estatística (1943) propelled British mathematician T.N.E. Greville to publish Laws of Mortality which satisfy a uniform seniority principle (1957) His Lições de Estatística was translated into English by Michigan University (1952); a third edition of this book received a prize by Actuarial Institute of London (1956) O coeficiente instântaneo de mortalidade: estabelecimento analytico e sua applicação à pesquiza de leis de sobrevivência (1939) Fórmula para o cálculo da probabilidade de sobrevivência entre as idades x e x+m/k. Bol. Mensal Div. Estat. Docum. Social Pref. S. Paulo p.106-7 Dedução da fórmula geral da média harmônica e sua aplicação à determinação do índice do poder aquisitivo da moeda em São Paulo. Bol. Mensal Div. Estat. Docum. Social Pref. S. Paulo 113:25, Fórmulas novas para a estimativa da população e sua aplicação à determinação da população do município de são Paulo. Bol. Mensal Div. Estat. Docum. Social Pref. S. Paulo 103:27, Uma função de morbilidade e a fórmula correspondente do prêmio puro para o seguro-enfermidade. Bol. Mensal Div. Estat. Docum. Social Pref. S. Paulo 125 Authored a number of articles about astronomy in national and foreign journals (1940-50s) He was honorary member of a great number of foreign cultural and scientific societies