Nai Ben Ming
Nai Ben Ming or Naben Min, Chinese crystal physicist (Jiangsu Province 09 August 1935 – Developed etching method for revealing dislocation lines and networks in body centered cubic crystals First to observe the birefringence image of end on screw dislocations and gave it a detailed explanation according to the anisotropy of both elastic and photoelastic properties of crystals Described the defect mechanism of crystal growth based on atomic configurations around defects and its intrinsic properties Generalized the screw dislocation mechanism to the growth mechanism assisted by any type of dislocation proposing new growth mechanisms Proposed the stacking fault, twin lamella, re-entrance corner-assisted growth mechanism and the cooperative growth mechanism of re-entrance corners with rough surface First to show the physical nature of electroconvection and its role in pattern selection on electrocrystallization Proposed a new pattern selection hypothesis in morphological evolution Demonstrated experimentally the role of convective noise near growing interface on the morphology selection and evolution in crystallization Revealed the intrinsic oscillation of concentration field in front of a growing interface and periodic nucleation in fractal aggregation Extended the concept of superlattice from semiconductor to dielectrics First to prepare LN, LT, BNN, SBN & TGS crystals with periodic semistructures Demonstrated the practical application of quasiperiodic superlattice in nonlinear optical field Predicted and proved a new mechanism for optical bistability in bidimensional dielectric superlattice LINKS http://www.hlhl.org.cn/english/showsub.asp?id=253
Mutis family
José Celestino Mutis y Bosio, Spanish-born Colombian botanist and geographer (Cadiz 06 April 1732 – Santafé de Bogotá 11 September 1808) Described nocturnal variations in barometer Discovered daily salty air in the tropics Created a specific for dysentery (1810) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Valid Genera Acaena 1771 Barnadesia 1781 Bejaria 1771 Castilleja 1782 Consuegria 1810 (Incertae Sedis) Escallonia 1821 Espeletia 1808 Lozania 1810 Manettia 1771 Pera 1784 Pombea 1810 (Incertae Sedis) Vallea 1782 Species About 70 HONORS (Asteraceae) Mutisia Linnaeus filius 1782 Flosmutisia Cuatrecasas 1986 His nephew, Sinforoso Mutis Consuegra, Colombian botanist (Bucaramanga 15 July 1773 – Bogotá 22 August 1822) Described the section Amaria 1810 (Fabaceae) Honored in genus incertae sedis Consuegria Mutis (1810)
Muhammad Ramzan Mirza
Muhammad Ramzan Mirza, Pakistani ichthyologist (1936 – DESCRIBED VALID PISCES TAXA Genus Naziritor 1985 with Javed Species Barilius naseeri 1986 with Rafiq & Awan Barilius pakistanicus 1978 with Sadiq Batasio pakistanicus 1989 with Jan Clupisoma naziri 1973 with Awan Gagata pakistanica 1999 with Parveen & Javed Glyptothorax pemjabensis 1971 with Kashmiri Glyptothorax sufii 1975 with Asghar Bashir Nangra robusta 1973 with Awan Naziritor zhobensis 1967 Paraschistura alepidota 1970 with Banarescu Paraschistura lepidocaulis 1981 with Nalbant Paraschistura lindbergi 1965 with Banarescu Paraschistura microlabra 1981 with Nalbant Paraschistura naseeri 1963 with Ahmad Schistura afasciata 1981 with Banarescu Schistura anambarensis 1970 with Banarescu Schistura arifi 1981 with Banarescu Schistura curtistigma 1981 with Nalbant Schistura fascimaculata 1981 with Nalbant Schistura harnaiensis 1969 with Nalbant Schistura kohatensis 1981 with Banarescu Schistura machensis 1970 with Nalbant Schistura macrolepis 1981 with Banarescu Schistura pakistanica 1969 with Banarescu Schistura shadiwalensis 1981 with Nalbant Schizothorax skarduensis 1978 with Awan Sisor pakistanicus 2001 with Javed Triplophysa trewavasae 1990 with Ahmad
Moura Brasil family
José Cardoso de Moura Brasil, Brazilian ophthalmologist (Iracema, Ceará State 10 February 1846 – Rio de Janeiro 01 January 1928) He was chief of L. Wecker ophthalmological clinic at Paris Developed a new process for cataract extraction employing a mixed flap with iridotomy Ophtalmologia. Novo processo para a extracção da catarata: extracção por um pequeno retalho mixto com iridotomia. União Médica, 1881 First used jequirity oil in ophthalmology Memoire sur le jequirity. Traitement de la conjunctivite granuleuse, aigue et chronique par l’Abrus precatorius ou jequirity. Ann. Ocul. 301, 1882 Developed an eye drops that bears his name (1913) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Tratamento cirúrgico da catarata (1872) Contribuição para o estudo comparativo dos diversos processos operatórios no tratamento das affecções oculares. Rev. Med. Bahia, 1877 Tratamento Cirurgico para o Descollamento de Retina (1879) Aniria ou falta completa da íris. Arch.Med. Cir. Farm. Brasil 1:7, 1880 Do emprego das correntes continuas nas affecções lymphaticas da conjunctiva e da córnea. Arch.Med. Chir. Farm. Brazil 4:7, 1880 Contribuição para o estudo comparative de diversos processos operatives no tratamento das afecções oculares (1880) Escleretomia dupla no tratamento do glaucoma. União Médica, 1881 L’ophtalmie purulent factice produite par La liane à reglisse au jequirity: memoire. Gaz. Hebd. Med. Cir. 835, 1882 Do uso e abuso do fumo, cegueira dos fumantes. Arch.Med. Cir. Farm. Brazil 5-6: 1881 Cancro infectante das palpebras (1889) Deslocamento da retina e seu tratamento (1889) Da extracção da catarata simples sem iridectomia e suas vantagens (1901) Estudos sobre o jiquirity no tratamento do trachoma Variação da tensão intraocular nas raças branca, mestiça, preta e indígena His relative, Nelson Moura Brasil do Amaral, ophthalmologist (Rio de Janeiro 26 August 1900 – Rio de Janeiro 07 June 1980) Nova orientação no tratamento do trauma Novo método de operação da catarata Eponym of Arruga-Moura Brasil intra-tenonian implant
Morna Mathias
Frances Celia Morna Mathias, English-born South African petrologist and geochemist (20 May 1913 – Nee Frances Celia Morna Cameron-Swan being granddaughter of physicist and chemist Joseph Wilson Swan SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With J.J. Gurney, J.C. Siebert & G. Moseley. Kyanite eclogites from the Rietfontein kimberlite pipe, Mier Coloured Reserve, Gordonia, Cape Province. Contr. Mineral. Petrol. 30:46-52, 1971 With J.C. Siebert & P.C. Rickwood. Some aspects of the mineralogy and petrology of ultramafic xenoliths in kimberlite. Contr. Miner. Petrol. 26:75-123, 1970 With P.C. Rickwood. Diamondiferous eclogite xenoliths in kimberlite. Lithos 3:223-5, 1970 With P.C. Rickwood. Ultramafic xenoliths in the Matsoku kimberlite pipe, Lesotho. Spec. Publ. Geol. Soc. South Africa 2:358-69, 1969 With P.C. Rickwood & J.C. Siebert. A study of garnets from eclogite and peridotite xenoliths. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 19:271-07, 1968 A disharmonious granite: the Spitzkop granite, South West Africa. Trans. Geol. Soc. South Africa 65(1):281-92, 1962 With H. Martin & E.S.W. Simpson. The Damaraland sub-vulcanic ring complexes in South-West Africa (1960) The geochemistry of the Messum igneous complex, S.W. Africa. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 12:29, 1957 Petrology of Messum Joneous complex. Trans. Geol. Soc. South Africa LIX:1-35, 1956 A note on two actinolites and a chlorite from Prieska District, C.P. Trans. Geol. Soc. South Africa 55:13-18, 1953 An unusual cordierite rock from Upington, Cape Province. Miner. Mag. 29:936-45, 1952 Two olivines from South Africa melilite-basalts. Mineral Mag. 28(204):486-91, 1949 With F. Walker. Petrology of two granite-slate contacts at Cape Town. Geol. Soc. London Quart. J. 102(1-4):499-521, 1947 Contribution to the Petrology of Namaqualand (1943). Thesis A comparative study of the Namaqualand granites. Trans. Geol. Soc. S. Africa XLIII:175-203, 1940 Occurrence of barite in a iron ore deposit in Namaqualand (1940) Application of pedological methods to the study of some weathered Mahnesbury Agrillitites of Cape Peninsula. Trans. Royal Soc. South Africa 21 HONORS Mathiasite Haggerty, Smyth, Erlank, Rickard & Danchin 1983 (Mineral)
Montenegro brothers
Benedito Augusto de Freitas Montenegro, Brazilian surgeon (Jaú, São Paulo State 07 April 1888 – São Paulo 22 August 1979) From Spanish father Internationally known as a great name in gastro duodenal surgery Performed the first total gastrectomy in Americas (1923) Developed a number of surgical methods between them Montenegro method or Finsterer-Montenegro method for treating gastro duodenal ulcers Eponym of Montenegro ligament As a soccer player played for Associação Atletica Mackenzie (1902-5) LINKS www.cbcsp.org.br/redator/item13663.shtml His brother, João Baptista de Freitas Montenegro, anatomical pathologist (Bocaina, São Paulo State 05 October 1892 – São Paulo 19 December 1980) Described Montenegro reaction or test for cutaneous leishmaniasis A cutis reação na leishmaniose. An. Fac. Med. São Paulo 1:323-330, 1926 Cutaneous reaction in Leishmaniasis. Archiv. Dermat. Syphilol. 13:187-94, 1926 Performed the first experimental model for paracoccidioidomycosis research (1927)