Milton Fontes Magarão
Milton Fontes Magarão, Brazilian bacteriologist and phthisiologist (Itaporanga d’Ajuda, Sergipe State 08 March 1903 – Rio de Janeiro 15 November 1986) Authored 71 publications WHO recognized his laboratory as world reference in atypical mycobacteria Identified distinct strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Performed the first tests of microbian resistance to bacteriostatics METHODS With H. Linhares modified the Corper-Stoner method (1949) Improved Darzins method for isolating tubercle bacilli from pathological material (Darzins-Magarão method) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With A.O. Lima & N. Bethlem. Alguns aspectos da imunologia da tuberculose. J. Pneumol. 11(2):98-106, 1985 With R.C. Mortatti & A.O. Lima. O complexo “Mycobacterium tuberculosis” (1980) With H.M. Brascher, G.G. R. Ferreira, J.R. Vargens & A.O. Lima. Inibição da migração dos leucócitos com antígenos particulados. Rev. Bras. Pesq. Med. Biol. 10:255-60, 1977 With H.M. Brascher, J.R. Vargens, R.C. Mortatti & A.O. Lima. Humoral and cellular immunity in children vaccinated with oral BCG. Rev. Bras. Pesq. Med. Biol. 10:175-80, 1977 With A.O. Lima, D.S. Camara, H.K. Massuda & G.G.R. Ferreira. Imunidade celular e humoral na tuberculose pulmonar ativa. Rev. Inst. Med. Trop. S. Paulo 19:1-9, 1977 With U. Zanon & E.L. Mondin. A atividade tuberculicida de desinfetantes hospitalares. Rev. Div. Nac. Tuberc. 18:5-15, 1974 With J. Dauster & A.C. Santiago. Resistência do bacilo de Koch às drogas standard e de reserve (Experiência de Guanabara). Arq. Bras. Tuberc. Doen. Torax 25(1):3-6, 1966 With H. Fraga. O problema da quimioterapia da tuberculose pulmonar no RJ visto através da frequência da resistência microbiana. Rev. Serv. Nac. 10(38):157-60, 1966 With V. Lorian. Color standardization of atypical mycobacteria. Acta Tuberc. Pneumol. Scand. 44:219-21, 1964 With A.C. Santiago, A.P. de Almeida & H. Fraga. Contribution à l’etude de La résistance d’emblée du bacille tuberculeux aux medicaments standard à Rio de Janeiro. Bull. Um. Int. Tuberc. 3:36, 1962 With V. Lorian. Des mycobactéries anormales dans notre pratique pneumologique. Acta Tuberc. Pneumol. Scand. 51:252, 1962 With J. Dauster, A.C. Santiago, E. Werneck, H. Fraga, A.P. Almeida & R.C.R. Barreto. The problem of resistance of M. tuberculosis to standard drugs in Rio de Janeiro. Advan. Tuberc. Res. 11:193-213, 1961 With H. Fraga & A. de Almeida. Persistência do bacilo de Koch aos agentes antimicrobianos e sua repercussão na profilaxia da tuberculose. Rev. Serv. Nac. 5:12, 1959 With H. Fraga & A.P. Almeida. A resistência do bacilo de Koch aos agentes antimicrobianos e suas repercussões na profilaxia da tuberculose. Rev. Serv. Nac. Tuberc. 3(12):459-66, 1958 With N. Costa & H. Fraga. Contribuição anatomo-patológica e bacteriológica ao estudo dos processos residuais da tuberculose pulmonar resultantes do tratamento. Tisiol. Pneumol. 3:5, 1957-8 With C.B. Chaves. O método agitação-precipitação no diagnóstico bacteriológico da tuberculose. O Hospital 5:601, 1954 With S.O. Lima. Reação de prognóstico da tuberculose pulmonar em hansenosos tuberculosos (1954) Diagnóstico de tuberculose e lavado brônquico. Rev. Bras. Tuberc. 21:67-71, 1953 With A.O. Lima. Cutireação à tuberculina em doentes de lepra. Clin. Tisiol. 7:83, 1952 With H. Linhares, E.W. Hirsch, S.P. Carvalho & A. Scorzelli Jr. Cultura do bacilo de Koch. Rev. Sesp. 3:509-14, 1950 With H. Linhares. Diagnóstico bacteriológico da tuberculose (1949) With H. Linhares. Tuberculose urogenital. Clin. Tisiol. 3:237, 1948 With R. Fernandes & J. Dauster. Sobre a presença de um bacilo tuberculoso tipo aviário, isolado a partir de um gânglio mesentérico proveniente de clínica humana. Clin. Tisiol. 23:59-62, 1947 With M. Arriagada & M. Thales. Lytic action of Bacillus subtilus on Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Clin. Tisiol. 2(6):345-8, 1944 Virulência do bacilo de Koch sob a ação dos bacteriostáticos HONOURS Honorary Member, International Carlo Forlanini Association Correspondent Member, Commission de Bactériologie et d’Immunologie de L’Union Internationale contre la tuberculose (Paris)
Miguel Angel Moron Rios
Miguel Angel Morón Ríos, Mexican entomologist (Ciudad de Mexico 24 October 1952 – Xalapa 22 August 2017) Regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on scarab beetles larvae DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA TAXA Genera/Subgenus Archedinus 1990 with Krikken Belicinus 2012 with Arce Perez & Shepard Subg. Bucaphalanus 2012 with Ramírez Ponce Chelilabia 1999 with Nogueira Halffterinetis 2007 with Nogueira Iridosoma 1991 with Delgado Castillo Macropoidelimus 1983 Mazahuapertha 1999 with Nogueira Mesosternus 1988 Nayarita 1999 with Nogueira Paraheterosternus 1983 Parisoleoides 1987 Plesiosternus 1983 Saccharoscaptus 2015 with Gross Yaaxkumukia 1999 with Nogueira Species 291 (136 of them in genus Phyllophaga) HONORS Moronopeilos Brailovsky 1988 (Hemiptera) Moronius Grossi & Vaz de Mello 2015 (Coleoptera) Moroniella Ramírez Ponce 2015 (Coleoptera) LINKS http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0065-17372019000100301 (Spanish) http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0065-17372017000300538&lng=pt&nrm=iso (Spanish)
MIDDLE EAST
Fatin Gokmen, Turkish astronomer (Akeksi 06 January 1877 – Istanbul 1955) Conceived of using a particular quadrant to make a table of the minimum and maximum values of the variations of the azimuth and the hour angle for a certain latitude His son, Tarik Gokmen, astronomer (Istanbul 26 November 1918 – 1985) Group-sequence criterion for series of observations. Rev. Fac. Sci. Univ. Istanbul Serie C 19(3):171-92, 1954 William Deab Nimeh, Lebanese gastroenterologist (Deir El Kamar 27 July 1891 – ?) Developed Nimeh method for the determination of the size of the liver and spleen by hepatosplenography and hepatosplenometry New method for the determination of the size of the liver and spleen. Am. J. Gastroent. 23:147-56, 1955 Un metodo nuevo para la determinación del tamaño del hígado y del bazo (1974) Salah Daoud Salman, Lebanese otorhinolaringologist (Beirut 24 January 1936 – With D.F. Proctor, D.L. Swift & S.A. Evering. Nasal resistance: a description of a method and effect of temperature and humidity changes. Ann. Otol. Rhinol. Laryngol. 80:736-43, 1971 A new stent for endoscopic sinus surgery. Otolaryngol. Head, Neck Surg. 109:780-1, 1993 Ekrem Kadri Unat, Turkish microbiologist and medical historian (Ankara 19 August 1914 – Nisan 13 April 1998) Reported the first case of cryptococcosis of the colon With B. Pars & J.P. Kosyak. A case of cryptococcosis of the colon. Br. Med. J. 5211:1501-2, 1960
MEXICO
Ponciano Aguilar Frías, Mexican mining engineer and topographer (Guanajuato 14 November 1853 – Guanajuato 10 April 1935) Devised a new method for identifying minerals by means of electric arc (pyroelectric analysis) (1915-1930) Honored in mineral species aguilarite Genth 1891 José Guadalupe Aguilera Serrano, Mexican geologist and paleontologist (Mapimi, Durango State 05 February 1857 – Ciudad de Mexico 13 March 1941) Colaborated to Mexican Geological Chart, presented in Universal Exposition of Paris with great success (1889) First to describe the formation of kaolin in basaltic rocks (1907) Alberto Barajas y Celis, Mexican mathematician (Ciudad de Mexico 17 July 1913 – Ciudad de Mexico 03 July 2004) With R. Vazquez. Teorema sobre una conjetura de Birkhoff. Bol. Soc. Mat. Mexicana (1946) He was invited to give lectures at Harvard University due to his work below Birkhoff’s theory of gravitation and Einstein’s theory for weak fields. Proceed. Nat. Acad. Sciences 30:54, 1944 Gregorio Barroeta Corbalán, Mexican physician and naturalist (San Luis Potosi 1831 – 25 October 1906) Collected plant specimens that gave rise to new species described by botanists MEMBERSHIP Member, Smithsonian Institute Honorary Member, Geographical Society of Quebec HONORS Barroetea A.Gray 1880 (Asteraceae) Gustavo Calderón Riveroll, Mexican geophysicist and geographer (San Pablo Apetatitlán, Tlaxcala State 11 February 1942 – Manzanillo, Colina State 19 April 2016) Obtained the first measurements of motions of Earth tectonic plaques (1991) that earned him NASA Group Achievement Award Ovidio Farga Torrent, Mexican Invented a phone viewfinder (telefonovisor) in 1970 and the videocine (a forerunner of video recorder) José María Roque de Jesus Macouzet Malo, Mexican pediatric surgeon (Morelia, Michoacán State 16 August 1870 – 24 November 1921) From French descent Reported the first arterial embolectomy with catheter Consideraciones acerca de dos casos de gangrena producida por embolias. Mem. II Congr. Med. Panam. Mexico II:31, 1896 Estefania Salas de Broner, Mexican antiquarian (died Xalapa 06 October 1907) Married to a German Collected a great amount of Misanteca archaeological artifacts described by Strebel from Cempoala, Cerro Montoso and Misantla (1883-4) With her sister Joaquina Salas de Morales collected new species of mollusks from Veracruz and Misantla (1875-6) Both are honored in genus Salasiella Strebel 1878 (Mollusca) Narciso Souza Novelo, Mexican physician, poet, botanist and ethnographer (Merida, Yucatán Province 16 October 1881 – Merida, Yucatán Province 15 February 1952) Described plant species Agave purpurea (1941) Bred and obtained new and beautiful varieties of orchids from which was regarded as a world expert José Norberto Aureliano Urrutia Sandoval, Mexican surgeon (Xochimilco, Districto Federal 06 June 1872 – San Antonio, Texas, USA 14 August 1975) First to report the extirpation of cirsoid aneurysm from the palm region of the hand in thew world (1909) Performed surgery for separating conjoined twins united by abdome and liver with world acclaim (1917)
Mervyn William Mansell
Mervyn William Mansell, South African entomologist (Bedford, Eastern Cape 19 November 1944 – Authored over 60 research papers DESCRIBED NEUROPTERA TAXA Family Psychopsidae 2017 with Bakkes & Sole Genera Afroptera 2019 with Abdalla Amerocroce 1983 Annulares 2004 Carnarviana 1983 Morandida 1983 Pamares 1990 Siccanda 2019 with Abdalla Tjederia 1977 Species Afroptera acuta 2019 with Abdalla Afroptera albi 2019 with Abdalla Afroptera balli 2019 with Abdalla Afroptera brinkmani 2019 with Abdalla Afroptera cylindrata 2019 with Abdalla Afroptera folia 2019 with Abdalla Afroptera koranna 2019 with Abdalla Afroptera maraisi 2019 with Abdalla Amerocroce boliviana 1983 Annulares aspoecki 2004 Annulares lanner 2004 Austrocroce occidens 1983 Cabralis pallidus 2017 with Bakkes & Sole Cabralis zambeziensis 2017 with Bakkes & Sole Carnarviana cretata 1983 Carnarviana janthorum 1983 Coberotha angolana 1994 with Aspock Concroce parva 1981 Crambomorphus kalaharicus 2018 Crambomorphus namibicus 2018 Cymothales capensis 1987 Cymothales cybele 1987 Cymothales exilis 1987 Cymothales marginatus 1987 Cymothales tjederi 1987 Ganguilus indicus 2010 with Michel Ganguilus rex 2010 with Michel Ganguilus veniae 2010 with Michel Laurhervasia namibica 1980 Laurhervasia transvaalensis 1980 Morandida peruviensis 1983 Mucroberotha aethiopica 1994 with Aspock Mucroberotha angolana 1994 with Aspock Mucroberotha minteri 1994 with Aspock Nemopterella cedrus 2019 with Abdalla Nemopterella kabas 2019 with Abdalla Palparellus ulrike 1996 Pamares damarus 1990 Pamares deru 1990 Pamares nephele 1990 Pamares parvus 1990 Pamexis hantam 2016 with Ball Pamexis karoo 1992 Pamexis namaqua 1992 Rhachiberotha ingwe 1994 with Aspock Rhachiberotha sheilae 1994 with Aspock Solter san 2013 Syngenes medialis 2018 Syngenes scholtzi 2018 Tjederia brevicornis 1981 Tjederia namaquensis 1977 HONORS (Neuroptera) Mansellia Tjeder 1992 Manselliberotha Aspock & Aspock 1988
Maximino Martínez
Maximino Martinez y Martínez, Mexican botanist (Huasca de Ocampo District, Hidalgo State 30 May 1888 – Ciudad de Mexico 02 June 1964) Internationally recognized for his work on economic botany Authored over 100 works DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Valid Genus Balmea 1942 Valid Species Abies durangensis 1942 Abies vejarii 1942 Balmea stormae 1942 Erodium saxatile 1934 Juniperus blancoi 1946 Juniperus comitana 1944 Juniperus durangensis 1946 Juniperus jaliscana 1946 Juniperus monticola 1946 Peltogyne mexicana 1961 Picea chihuahuana 1942 Pinus douglasiana 1943 Pinus durangensis 1942 Pinus herrerae 1940 Quercus macdougallii 1964 Quercus mulleri 1953 Quercus sanchez-colinii 1954 Solandra guerrerensis 1967 Others 24 subspecies, 15 varieties and 14 forms SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Plantas utiles de Mexico Apuntes para una monografia del pochote El arbol del balsamo Las plantas narcoticas de los antiguos mexicanos Los recursos florestales en las regiones del seno de Mexico Un galactogeno de importância, o capomo Las plantas medicinales de Mexico Plantas hulíferas Plantas aromaticas