Odriozola family
Manuel Odriozola Romero, Peruvian physician (Lima 26 March 1826 – Lima 27 June 1888) First to perform special studies over nasal miyasis Authored the first study about Peruvian verruca or bartonellosis in Estudio acerca de la verruga peruana (1858) Authored Verrugas i gusanera de las narices in Gaceta Medica de Lima 1:140, 1858, a work that was praised by French medical community His son, Ernesto Odriozola Benavides, physician (Lima 06 May 1862 – Lima 16 March 1921) His doctoral thesis Les lésions du coeur consecutives a l’atherome des coronaires (1888) received a gold medal from Faculté de Medecine de Paris Authored La maladie de Carrión ou verruga peruvienne (1898), the most complete work about it until its day
Nobuo Oguri
Nobuo Oguri, Japanese-born Brazilian shipbuilder (Tokyo 06 December 1925 – Rio de Janeiro 27 November 2014) Developed a methodology for management of shipyards Along the Portuguese-born Manoel Ribeiro Gonçalves were the main names of the Brazilian shipbuilding industry building modern ships comparable to that from other great centers of shipbuilding COLABORATED IN SHIPBUILDING ore/oiler Docepolo (1975), the greatest ship built at Southern Hemisphere in that day ore/oil carriers Docefjord & Tijuca (1986) were the world record-breakers among ships of their type oiler Bicas (1984), the first ship to meet the requirements of the International Maritime Organization for fully segregated ballast tanks
Nicolas Osorio
Nicolas Osorio Ricaurte, Colombian pathologist (Bogotá 10 September 1838 – Anapoima 21 December 1905) Authored Une tumeur provenant de la substance grise cephalorachidienne. Thesis (1865) First observed “pigmentum” in blood, 6 years ahead of Laveran in Higado Pigmentado (1874). In this work presented anatomo-pathologically the visceral lesions of paludism Presented the first case of black piedra (1874) in Sur la piedra, nouvelle espece d’affection parasitaire des cheveux With Posada Arango introduced the term piedra and described clinical aspects of black piedra SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Tratados sobre las quinas Estudio sobre las fiebres Ligaduras elásticas Hernia estrangulada Habitaciones de los obreros Aneurisma de la subclávia Estudio anatomo patológico sobre bazo “palustre”
Nelson Onuchic
Nelson Onuchic, Brazilian mathematician (Brodosqui, São Paulo State 12 March 1926 – São Carlos, São Paulo State 03 September 1999) From Austrian descent ACHIEVEMENTS Authored 49 works Obtained important findings about P spaces and uniform structures that earned him renown in international scientific community (1958-60) Introduced new concepts in asymptotic equivalence Generalized the concept of exit point Extended Waszewski topological method for differential equations with time-delay Obtained an instability criterion more generalized that from Hale concept (1971) EPONYMY Hartman-Onuchic theorem (1963) Hale-Onuchic asymptotic method (1964) See (in Portuguese) http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/brc/33004137031P7/2006/badin_mg_me_rcla.pdf
Nei Fernandes de Oliveira Jr.
Nei Fernandes de Oliveira Jr., Brazilian physicist (Campinas, São Paulo State 20 May 1941 – With Y. Shapira discovered virtual bicritical point (1979-80) With C. Becerra & Y. Shapira discovered Lifshitz multi critical point (1980) DEVELOPED A system for measuring differential magnetic susceptibility down to 0.3 K using modulated field A system for precise measurements of magnetization in plastic dilution refrigerators (1994) With G. Vellego & A. C. Medugno a continuous process for production of NbTi superconducting nanowires Technology for obtaining ultra low temperatures under intensive magnetic fields Designed and built devices for cryogenic research A new generation of resonant detectors employing spherical antennas With André B. Henriques GaAs based semiconducting structures (1990s) A Variable Temperature Chamber (Insert Dewar) For Superconducting Magnets With A Built-In He Transfer Line. Cryogenics 15: 293, 1975. With H. Vargas. Construction of a Set of Coils For Precise Magnetic Susceptibility Measurements at Liquid Helium Temperatures. Anais Acad. Bras. Cien. 41:505, 1969. With C.J. A. Quadros. A cryostat for measurements of magnetic susceptibility between 0.3 and 20 K. J. Sci. Instr. (J. Phys. E) 2 ser. 2:967, 1969 With C. J. A. Quadros. Construction and Operation of A Potencia 3 He Refrigerator. Anais Acad. Bras. Cien 36:403, 1964 With G. Frossati patented small Plastic Dilution Refrigerators in United States, Japan and Europe (1990s)
Masayuki Okumura
Masayuki Okumura, Brazilian surgeon (São Paulo 16 July 1927 – From Japanese ancestry Performed the second and third cases of intestinal transplantation in the world literature (1968-9) First intestine transplant in the world in which the patient survived for 10 days (1968) First to demonstrate the presence of Trypanosoma cruzi in intestinal myenteric plexus First to reproduce megaesophagus, megastomach, megabladder and megacolon in experimental Chagas’disease With A. Correa Netto. Experimental production of “megas” in animals inoculated with Trypanosoma cruzi (in Portuguese). Rev. Hosp. Clin. Fac. Med. S. Paulo 16:338-41, 1961 His work about pre-hospitalar first aid of patients that suffered traffic accidents gained international repercussion (1982) With P.L.S. Pinto, R. Takami, E.V. Nunes, C.S. Guilherme , J. Gama-Rodrigues et al. Cytokine-like substance: origin and fate in Chagas disease. A new hypothesis about the local inflammatory reaction etiopathogenesis. (Experimental study in white mice). Rev. Hosp. Clin. 54(3):73-4, 1999 PATENTS Geradores elétricos gêmeos isômeros (Isomeric twin electric generators) PI0304864-0 (2005) Energia elétrica hidro-elétrica (Hydroeletric electric power) PI0304895-0 (2005) HONOURS Who’s Who in the World, Marquis Who’s Who Publications (1996) International Man of the Year, International Biographic Center, Cambridge, England (1996-7) Twentieth Century Achievement Award, Five Hundred Leaders of Influence, American Biographic Institute, United States (1997)