Santiago Antuñez de Mayolo
Santiago Angel de La Paz Antuñez de Mayolo Gomero, Peruvian engineer and physicist (Huaclán, Aija Province 10 January 1887 – Lima 20 April 1967) ACHIEVEMENTS Invented an electrolytic condensator employed in radio receptor and electronic equipments (1904) Predicted the existence of neutron in Third Panamerican Scientific Congress, Lima (1924) and the existence of positron in Los Tres elementos constitutivos de la materia (1932) Proposed an equation unifying electromagnetic and gravitational fields Une meme equation pour le champ electromagnetique et le champ gravitationnel (1934) Established the existence of 4 asteroids (1930) Enunciated a Parabolic Law of Planetary Distances in Solar System Nueva ley de las distancias planetarias en el sistema solar y su interpretación física (1926) Performed important archaeological studies on Old Peruvian civilizations Physics Nobel Prize nominee (1943)
Samuel Manuwa
Samuel Layinka Ayodeji Manuwa, Nigerian surgeon (Ogun State 04 March 1903 – Lagos 24 September 1975) Invented Manuwa excision knife An excision knife for tropical ulcers. Brit. Med. J. 13 April, p.574, 1946 HONOURS Welcome Prize in Medicine Robert Wilson Memorial Prize in Chemistry
Samarendra Nath Maulik
Samarendra Nath Maulik, English / Indian entomologist (Tamluk, West Bengal State 25 December 1881 – London 09 July 1950) Enunciated Maulik principle Eponym of Maulik organ or metafemoral spring DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA GENERA Adalurnus 1936 Akantaka 1916 Alafia 1936 Anastena 1936 Anisoderopsis 1916 Apaksha 1926 Aprionota 1929 Asamangulia 1915 Asutosha 1926 Aulostyrax 1929 Avinasa 1936 Bijukta 1936 Bikasha 1931 Bimala 1926 Cneoranella 1936 Cnestispa 1930 Codiohispa 1930 Dercetisoma 1936 Eka 1931 Ekagonia 1916 Galerotella 1936 Galerupipla 1936 Glaucosphaera 1926 Gopola 1926 Griva 1926 Hoplasomedia 1936 Jacobyana 1926 Kamala 1926 Kari 1923 Keeta 1931 Lamellipalpodes 1921 Lamellipalpus 1921 Lanka 1926 Mimagitocera 1936 Neorthaea 1926 Nesohaltica 1929 Nesohispa 1913 Nonispa 1933 Pharangispa 1929 Plesistia 1929 Pratima 1931 Pycnophthalma 1929 Rhabdotohispa 1913 Shairia 1936 Shamshera 1936 Solephyma 1936 Squamispa 1928 Swargia 1936 Taphinellina 1936 Throscoryssa 1928 Trikona 1916 Wallaceana 1928 HONORS Maulika Basu & Sengupta 1980 (Coleoptera)
Salvador Mazza
Salvador Mazza, Argentine hygienist and parasitologist (Rauch, Buenos Aires Province 06 June 1886 – Monterrey, Mexico 09 November 1946) Son of Italian immigrants Authored about 260 works Confirmed the existence of Chagas disease and performed important studies about it (Chagas-Mazza disease) Described the chagasic dacrioadenitis or Mazza-Benítez sign With Clemente Benítez. Comprobación de La naturaleza esquizotripanósica y frecuencia de la dacrioadenitis en la Enfermedad de Chagas. Presencia de granulaciones en la forma ocular de esta enfermedad. Publ. MEPRA 31, 1937 Described the chagomes as cutaneous manifestations in Chagas disease With Ramón S. Freire. Manifestaciones cutaneas en Enfermedad de Chagas. Chagomas de inoculación. Chagomas Metastáticos y Chagomas Hematogenos. Rev. MEPRA 46:3-38, 1940 Described Mazza secondary chagomes or lipochagomes Described schizotrypanids, cutaneous eruptions in Chagas disease Esquizotripanides. Manifestaciones eruptivas agudas en la enfermedad de Chagas (exantemas y roseolas). Rev. MEPRA 51:3-74, 1941 Described Mazza-Jorg nodular hepatitis With M.E. Jorg. Sobre nodulos de histiocitosis en el higado de perro inoculado con Schizotryp. cruzi de origem humano. Publ. MEPRA 15:1-24, 1934 With R. Kraus developed an anti-typhoid vaccine (1910) DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Fungi Cryptococcus mitis 1930 with Stabile & Feijoo Hormodendrum chaquense with Niño Trichophyton saltense 1934 with Niño & Cornejo Trichosporon humahuaquense 1934 with Niño Protozoa Blastocrithidia gallardoi 1937 Phytomonas jujuyense 1939 Trypanosoma balfouri 1932 with Oliva, Schurmann & Gutdeutsch Trypanosoma dabbenei 1927 with Deautier & Steullet Trypanosoma franchinianus 1932 with Fiora Trypanosoma langeronianus 1932 with Fiora Nematoda Dipetalonema nicollei 1929 Dipetalonema tenius 1929 Dipetalonema finlayi 1932 with Fiora Microfilaria tamborini 1927 with Franke Hemiptera Genus Mepraia 1940 with Jörg & Gajardo Tobar Triatoma rosenbuschi 1936 Triatoma bruchi 1944 with Jörg HONORS Mazzia Khalil & Vogelsang 1932 (Nematoda)
Ruy Gomes de Moraes
Ruy Gomes de Moraes, Brazilian parasitologist (Cachoeiro do Itapemirim, Espirito Santo State 1909 – Rio de Janeiro 13 September 1973) Modified Baermann apparatus and developed Baermann-Moraes method for detecting helminth larvae in feces, culture and soil. Contribuição para o estudo do Strongyloides stercoralis e da estrongiloidose no Brasil. Rev. Serviço Esp. Saude publica 1(3):507-624, 1948. Discovered Trichosporon ribeiroi, a new agent of nodular trichomycosis or black piedra Novo agente de tricomicose nodular: “Trichosporon ribeiroi” n.sp. Cultura Médica 3:64-89, 1941. Developed a new method for treatment of strongyloidiasis employing bismuth salts Ensaio de um novo método de tratamento da estrongiloidose pelos sais de bismuto. Rev. Bras. Med. 18:646-8, 1961
Ronaldo Rogério de Freitas Mourao
Ronaldo Rogério de Freitas Mourão, Brazilian astronomer (Rio de Janeiro 25 May 1935 – Rio de Janeiro 25 July 2014) ACHIEVEMENTS Published more than 100 papers and 85 books Recorded phantom Saturn ring (1960) Established the periodic character of Jupiter’s bands A search for periodicity in the thickness of Jupiter (1962) Established new relations in the application of Thiele-Innes method (1964) Developed a new method for computing circular orbits of visual double stars (1966) Discovered invisible companion star of Aitken 14 (1971) Discovered with Belgian Henri Debehogne 14 asteroids (1980) Authored Encyclopedic Dictionary of Astronomy and Astronautics (1988), the first of its kind in the world HONORS 2590 Mourão Asteroid LINKS http://www.ronaldomourao.com/jornal/NewsClip/Default.asp