Luis Montane
Juan Luis Epifanio Montané y Dardé, Cuban physician, physical antropologist and archaeologist (La Habana 07 April 1849 – Chatou, France 28 November 1936) From French father and Catalonian mother Collected a number of archaeological and anthropological artifacts ARCHAEOLOGY Los moundbuilders em Cuba (1892) El idolo de la Gran Tierra de Maya (1906) El mound de Guayabo Blanco (1915) PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY Performed studies on comparative anthropology with craneometry and osteometry El craneo desde le punto de vista antropológico (1877) Un craneo guanche. Estudio craneologico (1885) Un craneo caribe. Estudio craneologico (1885) Established the concept of semi-microcephaly Etude anatomique du crane chez les microcéphales (1874) Found the first non-deformed crane of pré-hispanic Cuban man (1913) with Fernando Ortiz The first teeth of a fossil primate in Caribbean Les dents d’un singe pré-historique, Montaneia anthropomorpha, de Cuba. Bull. Mem. Soc. Anthrop. Paris (1923) Others L’homme fossile cubain. Proceed. 2nd P.R. Congr. Washington (1916) L’homme de Sancti Spiritus, Ile de Cuba (1906) Les hommes préhistoriques de Cuba (1921) OFFICES President, Societé d’Anthropologie de Paris (1922)
Luis Milone
Luis Ambrosio Milone, Argentine astrophysicist (Santa Fe 19 May 1933 – Cordoba 17 June 2018) DEVELOPED METHODS With D.C. Merlo. Alternative method for determining mean stellar distances. Bol. Asoc. Argent. Astron. 49:168-71, 2006 With D.C. Merlo. Un procedimiento simple para obtener un flujo constante en una atmosfera estelar. Bol. Asoc. Argent. Astron. 46:42-3, 2003 With D.C. Merlo. ? Ès necesario calcular detalladamente funciones de partición atomicas? Bol. Asoc. Argent. Astron. 40:27, 1996 With A.A.E. Milone & G.E. Bobatto. Numerical evaluation of the line broadening function H (a,v). Astrophys. Space Science 147(2):229-34, 1988 OTHERS Identification charts for southern R Coronae Borealis stars. Astrophys. Space Science 172:263-71, 1990 HONORS Asteroid 4725 Milone
Luis Migone
Luis Enrique Migone Mieres, Paraguayan microbiologist and parasitologist (Asunción 12 July 1876 – Asunción 13 July 1954) From Italian father ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered Trypanosoma equinum, the etiologic agent of “mal de caderas” With M. Elmassian. Sur le mal de caderas ou flagellose paresiante des equides sudamericaines. Ann. Inst. Pasteur 17:241-67, 1901 Authored a study about the role of capybara as intermediate host of Trypanosoma equinum, a paper translated to many languages Le role des carpinchos comme reservoir de virus dans la conservation du mal de caderas. Bull. Soc. Path. Exot. 3:524-5, 1910 First to report American visceral leishmaniasis Un cas de kalazar en Asunción (Paraguay). Bull. Soc. Path. Exot. 6:118-20, 1913 La buba du Paraguay, leishmaniose américaine. Bull. Soc. Path. Exot. 6:210-18, 1913 His studies on leishmaniasis and leprosy gained international repercussion Studied bacteria and protozoan of plants and animals from Paraguay Parasitologie de certains animaux du Paraguay. Bull. Soc. Path. Exot.9: 395-64, 1916 Flagelados de las plantas. Rev.Soc. Cien. Paraguay 1:35-9, 1922 Described and named the parasitic protozoa Phytomonas elmassiani 1916 Studied the therapeutic properties of aguai-guazu named Pouteria migonei in his honor HONORS Migonella Freitas & Lent 1946 (Nematoda) Migonemyia Galati 1995 (Diptera)
Luis Mazzotti
Luis Mazzotti Galindo, Mexican tropical physician (Durango 12 January 1900 – Ciudad de Mexico 24 October 1971) From Italian father Authored about 150 works on parasitology, scorpionism and rural hygiene Observed the effect of diethylcarbamazine (hetrazan) for serological diagnosis of onchocerciasis (1944) from which developed Mazzotti test or reaction The feasibility of using the allergic reactions which follow the administration of hetrazan as an auxiliary means of diagnosis in onchocerciasis. Rev. Inst. Salud Enferm. Tropicales Mex. 9:935, 1948 Developed a simple method for photographing helminth preparations With M. Martínez Baez. Metodos sencillos para obtener fotografias de preparaciones de helmintos. Rev. Inst. Salub. Enferm. Tropicales 16(2):25-6, 1956 Invented a protective method against scorpions employing a tile strip around walls Algunas modificaciones a la técnica de las amputaciones (Some modifications into amputations technique) (1925) DESCRIBED Borrelia dugesii 1949 (Bacteria) Ornithodoros dugesi 1943 (Acari) Triatoma hegneri 1940 (Hemiptera) HONOURS Prix Emile Brumpt, Faculté de Medecine de Paris Prix Goncourt
Luis María Murillo
Luis María Murillo Quinche, Colombian agricultural entomologist (Guasca, Cundinamarca 24 May 1896 – Bogotá 06 September 1974) Discovered new insect species that sent to experts in his country and abroad Authored Sentido de una lucha biologica (1938), performing a complete study of Sacadodes pyralis Dyar and its parasitoid Apanteles thurberae. Due to this work he was elected honorary member of Royale Societé de Entomologie of Belgique (1948) Developed an insectarium for Apanteles thurberae Un insectario para la cría y multiplicación de la Apanteles thurberae Mues. Rev. Fac. Nac. Agron. Medellín SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Los Xyleborus morigerus Blandford y sus relaciones con un pequeño cafetal de La Cumbre (Valle). Agron. Trop. 15:295-301, 1959 Los insectos y el clima en Colombia. Entomologia 10, 1944 Que son las plagas y como se combaten (1934) Las avispas chibchas (1924) Treinta años de sanidad vegetal La sanidad vegetal en Colombia HONORS Luisma Murillo & Smith 2003 (Pteridophyta)
Luis Jose Montaña
Luis José Ignácio Montaña Tello, Mexican physician (Puebla 21 October 1755 – Ciudad de Mexico 26 June 1820) Recognized as one of the most important physicians in Colonial Mexico Authored Avisos importantes sobre el Matlatltzahuatl (1817) and Praelectiones et concertaciones medicae (1917) Honored in genus Montanoa Cervantes 1825 (Asteraceae)