Muthuvelu Nadchatram
Muthuvelu Nadchatram, Malaysian acarologist (Kampung Chetty, Port Jackson 27 December 1927 – Kuala Lumpur 21 November 2011) Authored about 150 scientific papers First to show that colour of ticks or mites reflected its habitat and lifestyle First to take pictures of reproductive behavior of mites With J. Audy. A method of rearing individual trombiculid mites in the field. Nature 174:1021, 1954 DESCRIBED ACARI TAXA Genera Bishoplinia 1965 with Vercammen-Grandjean Colobatriglyphus 1983 with Fain Ereynetoides 1962 with Fain Heaslipioides 1966 with Vercammen-Grandjean & Traub Lorillatum 1963 Mesonyssoides 1962 with Fain Micronychites 1981 with Fain & Lukoschus Micronychitoides 1981 with Fain & Lukoschus Nakhoda 1975 with Domrow Nasalialges 1980 with Fain Rattimyobia 1980 with Fain & Lukoschus Susa 1960 with Audy Traubacarus 1957 with Audy Vercammenia 1958 with Audy Species/Subspecies About 265 HONORS Nadchatramia Wen 1999 (Acari)
Mudumbai Seshachalu Narasimhan
Mudumbai Seshachalu Narasimhan, Indian mathematician (Thandarai, Tamil Nadu State 07 June 1932 – 16 May 2021) Pioneer of the study of moduli spaces of holomorphic vector bundles on projective varieties Proved Narasimhan-Seshadri theorem (1965) With G. Harder introduced canonical filtrations on algebraic vector bundles With S. Ramanan proved the existence of universal connections in differential geometry (1961-3) and introduced the notion of Hecke correspondence between moduli spaces of vector bundles With Nori proved that there are only finitely many smooth projective curves having a given abelian variety With Simha showed the existence of a global moduli space EPONYMY Drezet-Narasimhan theorem (1989) Harder-Narasimhan stratification Harder-Narasimhan filtration Harder-Narasimhan categories Harder-Narasimhan numbers Harder-Narasimhan polygons of vector bundles Harder-Narasimhan recursion Harder-Narasimhan reductions Mumford-Narasimhan problem Narasimhan-Ramanan invariants Narasimhan-Ramanan moduli space Narasimhan-Ramanan parameterization Narasimhan-Ramanan singular curves Narasimhan-Ramanan theorem Narasimhan-Ramanan-Verra map Narasimhan-Simha metric HONORS King Faisal International Prize for Science (2006)
Mohammed Nizamuddin
Mohammed Nizamuddin, Pakistani phycologist (Atsar, Bihar, India 11 January 1930 – Karachi 16 January 2011) Authored 120 research papers and 5 books DESCRIBED ALGAE TAXA Family Seirococcaceae 1962 Valid Genus Stolonophora 1969 (Phaeophyceae) Species Bryopsis aishae 1995 Bryopsis manorensis 1995 Bryopsis pakistanica 1995 Bryopsis qasimensis 1995 Caulerpa faridii 1964 Caulerpa manorensis 1964 Caulerpa qureshii 1964 Chaetomorpha gigonii 1965 with Shabdir Ali (Fossil) Closterium pakistanicum 1995 with Masud ul Hassan & T. Rasool Codium afaqhusainii 2001 Codium aliyae 2001 Codium bilobum 2000 Codium boergesenii 2001 Codium faridii 2000 Codium fastigiatum 2001 Codium fimbriatum 2000 Codium gerloffii 2000 Codium hawkesbayense 2001 Codium islamii 2000 Codium laevigatum 2001 Codium manorense 2001 Codium pakistanicum 2000 Codium pseudolatum 2001 Codium robustum 2001 Codium saifullahi 1999 Codium shameeli 1997 Codium tobrukense 1993 with El Menifi Fathalla Cottoniella libyensis 1990 with Godeh Cystophora congesta 1964 with Womersley Cystophora cymodocea 1964 with Womersley Cystoseira masoudii 1995 Cystoseira susanensis 1975 Cystoseira wildprettii 1995 Dermonema abbottiae 1991 with Afaq-Husain & Shameel Dictyota dhofarensis 2006 with A.C. Campbell Dictyota hauckiana 1975 Dictyota kohlmeyeri 1980 with Gerloff Haloplegma anweri 1973 with Shameel Myriodesma harveyanum 1967 with Womersley Myriodesma peronii 1967 with Womersley Polysiphonia kieliana 1975 with Sargassum ramentaceum 1991 with Zarmouth Sirogonium khoriense 1995 with Masud ul-Hassan Stypopodium shameelii 1996 with K. Aisha Ulva grandis 1977 with Saifullah Vaucheria karachiensis 2003 with Saifullah & Gul HONORS Nizamuddinia P.C. Silva 1966 (Phaeophyceae)
Moacyr Rossi Nilsson
Moacyr Rossi Nilsson, Brazilian veterinarian (São Paulo 03 October 1927 – São Paulo 18 July 1992) Authored about 50 works Gained international recognition for his studies on rabies Published the first work on resistence genetics to rabies virus With M. Siqueira, O.A. Sant’Anna, T.T. Nilsson & M. Genari. Rabies virus immunity in genetically selected high and low responder lines of mice. Infect. Immunol. 25(1):23-6, 1979 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With R.A. Silva & G.V. Rivello. Isolamento de vírus rabico de morcego não hematófago da espécie Phyllostomus hastatus hastatus (Pallas). Arq. Inst. Biol. Animal 4:115-20, 1961 With O.A. Pereira, W. Sugay & E.E. Trapp. Ocorrência de encefalomielite equina em Itaporanga, Estado de S. Paulo. II. Estudos sorológicos. Rev. Inst. Med. Trop. 6:1-4, 1964 With W. Sugay. Rabies diagnosis. Comparative study of Negri bodies and the mouse inoculation tests. Study of rabie animals chiefly livestock. Arq. Inst. Biol. 33(1):11-16, 1966 With W.M. Correa. Isolamento do vírus do aborto equino no Estado de São Paulo. Arq. Inst. Biol. 33:23-5, 1966 With W. Sugay. O uso de camundongos lactentes no diagnóstico da raiva. Arq. Inst. Biol. 33:47-8, 1966 Isolamento de vírus da raiva de morcegos hematófagos do Estado de São Paulo, Brasil. Bol. Of. San. Panam. 60:310-5, 1966 With W.M. Correa. Hepatitis due to equine abortion virus. Comparison between the liver histology in human, canine, duckling and equine viral hepatitis. Canad. J. Comp. Med. Vet. Sci. 30:112-6, 1966 With N.S. Piegas. Ectima contagioso em ovinos no Estado de São Paulo. O Biologico 34(12):265-8, 1968 With W. Sugay, O.L. Pasqualin & S.B.K. Muller. Rabies diagnosis. Comparative study on susceptibility of adult and suckling mice. Arq. Inst. Biol. 35:43-7, 1968 Comunicação: Diagnóstico da raiva. Observações sobre as amostras de vírus de baixa patogenicidade. Arq. Inst. Biol. 36:63-5, 1969 With A. Ribeiro Netto, O. Miguel, M. Mizuno & F.Nikitin. Estudo comparativo de vacina anti-rábica de uso bovino. Bol. Of. San. Panam. 70(6):538-43, 1971 With A. Ribeiro Netto, J. de Angelis Cortes, M. Mizuno & O.Miguel. Comparative study of cattle anti rabies vaccine. II. Protection confered by Alurabiffa, Era and Formidogel vaccines. Zbl. Vet. Med. B 20 (5):378-404, 1973 With J. de Angelis Cortes. Influence of the virus quantity on the results of the serum-neutralization test in mice for measuring the antirabic antibodies. Rev. Fac. Med. Vet. Zootecn. Univ. S. Paulo 11:95-106, 1974 With C.A. Nagata. Isolamento do vírus rabico do cérebro, glândulas salivares e interescapular, coração, pulmões e testículos de morcego Desmodus rotundus no Estado de São Paulo. Arq. Inst. Biol. 42:183, 1975 With F.M. Rodrigues, C.A. Nagata & E.M.P. Peixoto. Isolamento do vírus da raiva de morcego insetívoro Molossus obscurus (Geoffroy, 1805), no Estado de São Paulo. Arq. Inst. Biol. 42:193-6, 1975
Mario Novello
Mario Novello, Brazilian cosmologist (Rio de Janeiro 24 August 1942 – From Italian ancestry Authored 189 papers and 17 books Showed that gravitation is a result of self-interaction of gamma fields in J. Math. Physics 12:1039, 1971 Explained the origin of neutrinos masses in Lettere al Nuovo Cimento 1:252, 1971 Suggested that weak forces changes in account to Universe evolution state (1972) Showed that weak and electromagnetic forces are consequences of self-interaction of gamma fields in Lettere al Nuovo Cimento 13:74, 1973 With the physicist José Martins Salim found non-singular rays for our Universe in Physical Review D20:377, 1979 With the physicist J. M. Salim and independently of V. Melnikov & S.V. Orlov constructed the first analytical bounce cosmological model (1979) With Hans Heitzmann proposed Dynamical Eternal Universe Scenario (DEUS) in 1984 With I.A. Bediaga e Hickman, M. Gasperini & E. Predazzi presented a geometric description of hadronization in a curved spacetime in Modern Physics Letters A4:169, 1988 With N. Deruelle, I. Costa & N.F. Svaiter presented a soluble example of quantum fields in cosmological spacetimes in Class. Quantum Gravity 6:1893, 1989 With N.F. Svaiter & M.E. Guimarães established the required conditions for material bodies may propagate on time type closed curves in Modern Physics Letters A7:5, 1992 With V.A. De Lorenci, J.M. Salim & R.B. Klippert showed than non-linear processes in standard electromagnetism may lead to electromagnetic black hole in Physical Review D64:45001, 2000 With V.D. Ivashchuk, S.A. Kononogov & V. Melnikov found non-singular solutions in a multidimensional cosmology with a perfect fluid in Gravity and Cosmol. 12:273, 2006 Presented a construction of Diracian linear fermions in terms of Heisenbergian nonlinear spinors in Europhysics Letters 80:4100, 2007 Eponym of Novello-Heitzmann viscous universe HONOURS Doctor Honoris Causa, Université de Lyon (2004) LINKS http://www.seara.ufc.br/folclore/folclore221.htm (in Portuguese)
Manuel Nuñez Tovar
Manuel Bautista de las Mercedes Nuñez Tovar, Venezuelan medical entomologist and parasitologist (Caicara de Maturín, Monagas State 24 September 1872 – Maracay, Aragua State 27 January 1928) First to explain the miiasis transmitted by mosquitoes DESCRIBED DIPTERA TAXA Valid Genus Fransaia 1927 with Dyar Species Aedes argyrites 1926 with Dyar Culex bihaicola 1927 with Dyar Culex macaronensis 1926 with Dyar Haemagogus celeste 1926 with Dyar Phlebotomus evansi 1924 Phlebotomus maracayensis 1924 Phlebotomus otamae 1924 Phlebotomus rangeli 1924 Simulium lugubre 1928 with Lutz Simulium versicolor 1928 with Lutz Trichoprosopron pusillum 1928 with Lutz Wyeomyia caracula 1927 with Dyar Wyeomyia favor 1928 with Dyar Wyeomyia felicia 1927 with Dyar Wyeomyia gausapata 1927 with Dyar Wyeomyia guadians 1927 with Dyar Wyeomyia pampithes 1928 with Dyar Wyeomyia serratoria 1927 with Dyar HONORS Subgenus Nunezia Dyar 1928 (Diptera)