Juan Cesar Mussio Fournier
Juan Cesar Mussio Fournier, Uruguayan endocrinologist and neurologist (Montevideo 07 February 1890 – Montevideo 03 April 1961) From Genovese and French ancestry Authored 214 papers ACHIEVEMENTS Described Mussio Fournier syndrome With A. Garra. Troubles neurologiques produits par l’oedeme de Quincke. Revue Neurol. 1(6):1444-7, 1932. Described the clinical features of restless legs syndrome With F. Rawak. Familiares auftreten vom pruritus urtikaria und parasthetischer hyperkinese der unteren extremitaten. Conf in Neurol. III:110-4, 1940 Described the association between narcolepsy and Erb-Goldflam disease Consideration générale sur la narcolepsie et le maladie de Erb-Goldflam. Estud. Clin. Med. (1929) Described the association between Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome, Legg-Perthes disease and Telfort-Smith finger With J.P. Saralegui. Sindrome de Laurence-Moon-Biedl avec diabete insipide y maladie de Legg-Perthes et doight de Telfort-Smith. Bull. Med. Soc. Med. Hop. Paris (1948) First to demonstrate that testicular tumours may produce folliculine Introduced melanophorin therapy for treatment of ocular diseases HONORS Doctor Honoris Causa, Université de Paris Medicine & Physiology Nobel prize nominee (1950) EPONYMY Hutinel-Mussio Fournier syndrome (hemiparesia associated to myxoedema) Mussio Fournier sign (changes in aquilian reflex seen in myxoedema) Mussio Fournier-Cerviño sign (infantile myxedema associated to hunger infantilism) Mussio Fournier-Albrieux-Grosso test for quantitative determination of progesterone
Juan Carlos Muzzio
Juan Carlos Muzzio Passanante, Argentine astronomer (Buenos Aires 19 January 1946 – From Italian and Spanish descent Discovered hundreds of objects and H-alpha emitting stars Discovered asteroids 3666 Holman and 7372 Emimar (in honor to his daughters) in 1972 Predicted the existence of galaxy satellites of masses intermediate between galaxies and globular clusters Discovered and named globular cluster swapping With J.C. Forte & R.E. Martínez. On the origin of the globular cluster system of M87. Astron. J. 87(11):1465, 1982 Discovered that dwarf stars are totally destroyed, but the core survives and becomes like a globular cluster of giant stars With L.P. Bassino & L.P. Rabolli. Are globular clusters the nuclei of cannibalized dwarf galaxies? Astrophys. J. 431:634-9, 1994 Showed the role of chaos in elliptic galaxies (2000) Chaos in elliptic galaxies (2001) Showed that chaotic stellar motion occurs in galactic satellites With D.D. Carpintero, M.M. Vergne & F.C. Wachlin. Chaotic orbits in galactic satellites. Celest. Mech. Dynam, Astron. 85(3):247-67, 2003 Showed the existence of partially chaotic orbits Partially chaotic orbits in a perturbed cubic force model. Monthly Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 471(4):4099-10, 2017 METHODS AND OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS With M. Muzzio, C.M. Bravi & G. Bailliet. A method for assignment of weight of characters. Amer. J. Phys. Anthrop. 143(3):488-92, 2010 A simple method to compensate softening effects in N-body simulations of spherical stellar systems. Rev. Mex. Astron. Astrofis. 41(1):41-4, 2005 With F.C. Wachlin & G.B. Rybicki. A perturbation particle method for stability studies of stellar systems. Mont. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 262(4):1007-12, 1993 With F.C. Wachlin. Un sistema unidimensional con caracteristicas de estabilidad similares ao problema de Jeans. Bol. Asoc. Argent. Astron. 37:48, 1992 With M.M. Vergne. On the minimum distance cutoff for stellar encounters. Astrophys. Lett. Comm. 27:23-5, 1988 With M.M. Vergne. Nuevo esquema de calculo para simulaciones numericas de cumulos de galáxias. Bol. Asoc. Argent. Astron. 31:440, 1985 With H.G. Marraco. Un metodo para la determinación de periodos de estrellas variables. Bol. Asoc. Argent. Astron. La Plata 21:228, 1982 With R. Platzeck & H.G. Marraco. Prisma “no objectivo”. Bol. Asoc. Argent. Astron. La Plata 20:192, 1981 With H.G. Marraco. An improved method to derive periods of cyclic phenomena. Publ. Astron. Soc. Pacific 92(549):700, 1980 HONORS 6505 Muzzio (Asteroid)
Juan Bautista Montoya y Flórez
Juan Bautista Montoya y Flórez, Colombian physician and surgeon (Titiribí, Antioquia Department 21 April 1867 – Medellín 19 March 1937) ACHIEVEMENTS MEDICINE First described tinea nigra (1898) Authored Recherches sur les carates de Colombie (1898), isolating some fungi that cause carate or pinta Authored Contribución al studio de la lepra (1910) with great repercussion Developed Montoya y Flórez staining for differentiating gonococci Described 2 filarial species First to use adrenaline in cardiac failure SURGERY (DEVELOPED) A procedure of hystero-colpo-perineorrhaphy Un Nuevo procedimento de histero-colpo-perineorrafia para la curación radical de La prolapso inveterado. Anal. Acad. Med. Medellín 10:84, 1902 A new technique for correction of hydrocele Dislocación testicular. Nueva operación para el hidrocele simple. Rev. Clin. Fac. Med. U. Antioquia 310-3, 1922 A method for surgical treatment of genital prolapse (1928) A method of gastric resection Modified many surgical procedures such as perineal reconstitution Montoya y Flórez special scissors HONORS Montoyella Castellani & Chalmers 1907 (Fungi)
Juan Bautista Marchionatto
Juan Bautista Marchionatto Sticco, Argentine plant pathologist and mycologist (Buenos Aires 19 August 1896 – Buenos Aires 02 January 1955) Authored 130 works Developed practical and effective methods to control agricultural pests Headed Instituto de Investigação sobre la langosta (Institute of Research about Grasshopper), one of world’s most relevant in this field Fitoparasitos de la Argentina nuevos o poco conocidos II. Physis 9(32):145, 1928 La inmunidad en los vegetales. Rev. Agr. 149:3-34, 1934 Hongos parasitos de las plantas, nuevos o poco conocidos en la Argentina. Publ. Misc. Minist. Agric. B. Aires Ser A 3(37):11, 1947 ACHIEVEMENTS Determined Spondylodadium atrovirens as agent of silver scurf of potato tubers (1934) Proposed Brevipalpus phoenicis as vector of Citrus leprosies rhabdovirus (1938) Proposed regulation and evasion principle for control of plant diseases (1949) Una fitonosia nueva: le koleroga del café? Rev. Soc. Arg. Cienc. Natur. Bs Aires 8:554-7, 1928 First to study the effectiveness of dry treatments for wheat bunt Investigaciones sobre el tratamiento seco en la lucha contra la “carie” del trigo. Rev. Fac. Agron. 16:88-92, 1925 Determined the procedure for flyspeck control of Cara Sucia apple variety Tratamiento eficaz para combater la fumagina de la manzana Cara Sucia. Circ. Secc. Prop. Inform. Min. Agric. Nac. 468:1-7, 1925 Described a new disease Wilting of the terminal bud in potato . Intern. B. Plant Protect. 15:161-2, 1941 Presented a new sanitary technique for fruits Nueva tecnica sanitaria en la exportación de frutas argentinas DESCRIBED NEW VALID FUNGI Cordyceps ignota 1946 Cyttaria hookeri f. candida 1940 Pseudocercospora escalloniae 1946 Rhinotrichum griseo-roseum 1941 Septobasidium caveniae 1941 Sporotrichum paranaense 1933
João Moojen
João Moojen de Oliveira, Brazilian mammalogist and ornithologist (Leopoldina, Minas Gerais State 01 December 1904 – Rio de Janeiro 31 March 1985) Authored 62 publications Developed a new method for Muridae extermination Described a new taxidermy technique of small mammalians in Captura e preparação de pequenos mamíferos para coleções de estudo (1943) Formulated Karnol ratio for dogs and another ratio for birds DESCRIBED VALID MAMMALIA TAXA Genus Juscelinomys 1965 Species Gracilinanus agricolai 1943 Juscelinomys candango 1965 Kerodon acrobata 1997 with Locks & Langguth (posthumous) Phyllomys kerri 1950 Trinomys gratiosus 1948 Trinomys paratus 1948 Subspecies Proechimys guyanensis arabupu 1948 Proechimys guyanensis riparum 1948 Sciurus (Guerlinguetus) aestuans poaiae 1942 Sciurus (Guerlinguetus) ignitus cabrerai 1958 Trinomys gratiosus gratiosus 1948 Trinomys gratiosus bonafidei 1948 Trinomys setosus denigratus 1948 HONORS Moojenia Mello Leitão 1935 (Arachnida) Moojenodesmus Schubart 1945 (Diplopoda)
João Marinho
João Marinho de Azevedo, Brazilian otolaryngologist (Rio de Janeiro 15 January 1875 – São Paulo 12 February 1956) CONTRIBUTIONS Described hyperemia of the tympanic membrane indicative of irritated meninges (1934) Da miringite reflexa. O Hospital 10:1353-7, 1936 A conduta usada pela escola do professor Marinho nas hemorragias consecutivas à amigdalectomia Showed the benign evolution of diphtheria (1918) Une nouvelle classification des angines: angines à traites par le sérum antidiphterique Described the peculiar lesions of buccal mucosa in blastomycosis DEVELOPED TECHNIQUES Nossa técnica na cirurgia da sinusite frontal Demonstrated a new method of truncal anaesthesia in otolaryngology Considerações gerais sobre anestesia tronco-regional em Otorrinolaringologia e sua técnica nas intervenções nasais (1915)