José Carlos Millás
José Carlos Millás Hernandez, Cuban meteorologist (La Habana 22 January 1889 – Miami, Florida 28 November 1965) ACHIEVEMENTS Established paths of many Atlantic cyclones First described and characterized the phenomenon of loop recurve in hurricanes (1926) Described a new dial for the aneroid (1922) and a new nephoscope (1926) AUTHORED Sobre un fenômeno interessante de la atmosfera en la región de los cirros (1927) Un critério para el pronostico precoz de la actividad ciclônica en la porción occidental de Cuba (1937)
José Albano da Nova Monteiro
José Albano de Carvalho da Nova Monteiro, Brazilian orthopedic surgeon (Salvador 06 January 1918 – Rio de Janeiro 03 October 2005) First to use an anterolateral approach for patellofemoral substitution With J. S. Franco. A new method for treating chronic osteomyelitis. Folha Med. 82(1): 47-51, 1981 With V. Giordano Neto & M.L. Castelo Branco. Open fractures of diaphyses of the forearm bonés caused by dog bite: a treatment proposal. Rev. Bras. Ortop. 32(7):577-80, 1997
Josué Camargo Mendes
Josué Camargo Mendes, Brazilian geologist and paleontologist (São Paulo 17 December 1918 – São Paulo 05 December 1991) DESCRIBED FOSSIL GENERA Mollusca Angatubia 1962 Anhembia 1990 with Mezzalira & Maranhão Barbosaia 1952 Casterella 1952 Cowperesia 1952 Coxesia 1952 Favalia 1962 Holdhausiella 1952 Itaitubia 1966 Katzeria 1966 Leinzia 1949 Naiadopsis 1952 Oliveiraia 1954 Roxoa 1952 Brachiopoda Brasilioproductus 1959 Buxtonioides 1959 Duartea 1959 Langella 1961 Petria 1957 HONORS Camargomendesia Paula Couto 1978 (Fossil Mammalia)
Joseph Miller
Joseph Miller, British-born Brazilian organic chemist (Dorking, Surrey 07 October 1918 – DEVELOPED Production of cattle food from cellulosic materials (1985) Production of furfural from cellulosic materials (1985) Production of addictive from furfural that enables ethanol utilization as a fuel in Diesel engines (1985) PATENTS With J.C. C. Gerez & M.C.A. Gerez. Process and installation for obtaining ethanol by the continuous acid hydrolysis of cellulosic materials (1981) Magneto-optics recording system of materials (1993) Extraction process of components from plants (2008) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Books Aromatic Nucleophilic Substitution. ELSEVIER SCIENCE PUBLISHERS, 1968. With Z. Rapoport. Chemistry Of The Azido Group. WILEY – INTERSCIENCE, 1971. Papers Kinetic and Thermodynamic nucleophilicity in aromatic Sn reactions and thermodynamic basicity. Journ. Chem. Soc. B 299, 1966 With K.C. Ho & D.C. Hill. Theoretical calculation and Experimental Measurement of halogen Exchange. J. Chem. Soc. B 1521, 1971 With A. Federman Neto. Improved Synthesis Of Arene Cyclopentadienyl Iron (II) Salts. Synthesis of (Hydrazinobenzene) (Cyclopentadienyl) Iron (II) Picrate. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 54(2): 331-333, 1982. With A. Federman Neto. Alguns Novos Aspectos de Química dos Areno Complexos de Ferro (II). Ciência e Cultura 36(10):1765-1766, 1984. With Gino del Ponte. Kinetic And Mechanisms Of The Hydrolysis And Methanolysis Of Some Alkoxytropylium Perclorates. Some Comments On Electrophylic And Nucleophilic Strenght And Nucleofugality. J. Chem. Research 914-931, 1988. With A. Federman Neto et al. Synthesis Of Substituted Ferrocenes. Part I – An Improved Tecnique For The Preparation Of Acylferrocenes.. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 61(4): 413-417, 1989. With A. Federman Neto, N. Z. Kiyan & Y. Miyata. Synthesis Of Substituted Ferrocenes. Part II – Convenient Synthesis Of Chloromercurioferrocene And Ferrocenemonocarboxylic Acid. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 61(4):419-423, 1989. With N.M. Grynberg, A. Echevarria et al. Some New Arylsidnones: Effects On Murine Tumours. Anticancer Research 12:1025-1028, 1992. With A. Echevarria, S. Galembeck, V.M. Rumjanek et al. Reaction Of Aroyl Chlorides With 1,4-Diphenylthiosemicarbazide: Formation Of Both 1,3,4-Thiadiazolium-2-Aminides And 1,3,4-Triazolium-2-Thiolate. Heterocyclic Communications 1:129-136, 1995. With E. J. S. Vichi, A. Federman Neto et al. Marked Changes In Relative Nucleophilicity In Comparing SN2Ar Reactions Of Free Arenes And Coordinated Arenes. Kinetic Studies Of Reactions O(Chlorobenzene) (Cyclopentadienyl) Iron(II) With Anionic And Neutral Nucleophiles. Organometallics 15:3198-3203, 1996. With R. E. Banks, L. R. Kelland et al. New Perfluorophthalate Complexes Of Platinum (Ii) With Chemotherapeutic Potential. METAL-BASED DRUGS 3(3):117-122, 1996. With N.M. Grynberg & A. Echevarria. Synthesis And In Vivo Antitumor Activity Of New Heterocyclic Derivatives Of The 1,3,4-Thiadiazolium-2-Aminide Class. Synthetic Communications 8:88-91, 1997. With A. Federman Neto, A.D.L. Borges & V.A. Darin. Improvements In The Preparation Of Cyclopentadienyl Thallium And Methylcyclopentadienyl Thallium And In Their Use In Organometallic Chemistry. Synthesis and Reactivity in Inorganic and Metal-Organic Chemistry, 27(9):1299-1314, 1997. With A. Federman Neto, A. D. L. Borges & I. P. A. Campos. Mercury(II) Trichloroacetate. Part I. Formation, Stabilization, Isolation And Decomposition.. Synthesis and Reactivity in Inorganic and Metal-Organic Chemistry 27(9):1373-1380, 1997. With A. Federman Neto, A. D. L. Borges & I. P. A. Campos. Mercury(II) Trichloroacetate. Part II. Formation And Use As A Versatile Reagent In Ferrocene Chemistry. Synthesis and Reactivity in Inorganic and Metal-Organic Chemistry 27(10):1543-1551, 1997. With P. T. Sousa Junior & A. Giesbrecht. An Improved Synthesis Of Bis-(4-Alkylamino-3-Nitrophenyl)-Sulphones And In Vitro Evaluation Of Biological Activity. Interciencia 22(4):194-196, 1997. With V.A. Darin, A. Federman Neto et al. Boron Trifluoride Etherate As a Catalyst In Acylation Of Ferrocene.. Journal für Praktische Chemie. Chemiker-Zeitung, 341(6):588-591, 1999. With V. A. Darin, A. Federman Neto & A D L Borges. Potassium Borohydride: Improved Use As Reducing Agent For Organic And Organometallic Ketones. Main Group Metal Chemistry 22(8): 503-507, 1999. With A. Federman Neto & M. L. A. Silva. Improved Synthesis And Analgesic Activity of (Anisole) Triscarbonyl Chromium (0). Metal-Based Drugs 6(1):25-29, 1999. With M. L. A. Silva, A. Federman Neto et al. Synthesis and In Vitro Tripanocidal Activity Evaluation of Some Organo-Iron Compounds. Metal-Based Drugs 8(6):329-332, 2002. With A. Federman Neto, V. A. Darin, M. L. A. Silva, G. Ponte et al. New Synthesis of Ferrocenemonocarboxylic Acid and Systematic Studies on the Preparation of Related Key Intermediates. Zeitschrift für Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie 628(1):209-216, 2002. With B.F. Lira, P. F. Athayde Filho et al. Synthesis and characterization of three new organo-selenium compounds. A convenient synthesis of aroylselenoglycolic acids. Arkivoc 6:22-26, 2004. With R. O. Silva, A. M. Simas, B. F. Lira et al. Synthesis and complete assignments of 1-H and 13-C NMR spectra of mesoionic 2-(p-trifuoromethylphenyl)-3-methyl-4-(p-tolyl)-1,3-thiazolium-5-thiolate and 2-(p-chlorophenyl)-3-methyl-4-(p-isopropylphenyl)-1,3-thiazolium-5-thiolate. ARKIVOC 7: 12-21, 2004.
Jose Maria Maza
José María Maza Sancho, Chilean astrophysicist (Valparaíso 18 January 1948 – Authored over 120 scientific works (with 9,200 citations by Publons) Discovered a new component of dark energy and a technique for measuring the distances using type I supernovae With M. Hamuy, M.M. Phillips, N.B. Suntzoff & P. Avilés. SN1992bc and SN1992bo: Evidence for intrinsic differences in type1A supernova luminosities. Astrophys. J. 424 (1994) His work in astronomy / astrophysics enabled the discoveries that lead to 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics Papers in Nature With P.G. Martin & J.R.P. Angel. The polarisation of nova Valpeculae. Nature 265(5592):314-5, 1977 With M. Hamuy, M.M. Phillips, N.B. Suntzeff, L.E. Gonzalez, M. Roth et al. An asymptotic giant branch star in the progenitor system of a type Ia supernova. Nature 424 (6949):651-4, 2003 DISCOVERED / OBSERVED More than 120 supernovae, More than 900 quasars More than 150 Seyfert galaxies More than 500 galaxies with intensive stellar formation A great number of carbon stars With M. Hamuy, J.S. Deng, P.A. Mazzali, N.I. Morrell, M.M. Phillips et al. Supernova 2003bg: the first type IIb Hypernova. Astrophys. J. 703(2):1612-23, 2009 With N.D.Morgan, M.D. Gregg, L. Wisotzki, R. Becker, P.L. Schechter & R.L. White. CTQ327: a new gravitational lens. Astrophys. J. 126(2):696-705, 2003 With J.N. Winn, J.N. Hewitt, A.R. Patnaik, P.L. Schechter, R.A, Schommer, S. Lopez & S. Wachter. A nearly symmetric double-image gravitational lens. Astron. J. 121(3):1223-31, 2001 With M.T. Ruiz, P.M. Rojo & G. Garay. CE315: a new interacting double-degenerate binary star. Astrophys. J. 552(2):679-84, 2001 With N.D. Morgan, P.L. Schechter, J.N. Winn & A. Dressler. CTQ144: a new gravitational lens. Astron. J. 118(4):1444-9, 1999 With J. Rossa, C. Tappert & Th. Augusteijn. Two new quasars at Z=1,90 and Z=0,15 from the Calán-Tololo survey. Astron. Astrophys. 350:379-80, 1999 With L. Wisotzki, N. Christlieb, M.C. Liu, N.D. Morgan & P.L. Schechter. The new complex gravitational lens system HE0230-2130. Astron. Astrophys. 348:41-4, 1999 With M. Wischnjewsky & R. Antezana. Calan-Tololo survey. VIII. One hundred southern quasars. Rev. Mex. Astron. Astrofís. 32:35-45, 1996 With P.F. Ortiz, M. Wischnjewsky, R. Antezana & L.E. Gonzalez. Calan-Tololo survey. VII. One hundred new southern quasars. Rev. Mex. Astron. Astrofís. 31(2):159-69, 1995 With M. Wischnjewsky, R. Antezana & L.E. Gonzalez. Calan-Tololo survey. VI. One hundred new southern quasars. Rev. Mex. Astron. Astrofís. 31(2):119-29, 1995 With M.T. Ruiz, L.E. Gonzalez, M. Wischnjewsky & R. Antezana. Calan-Tololo survey. V. Two hundred new southern quasars. Rev. Mex. Astron. Astrofís. 25(1):51-7, 1993 With L.E. Gonzalez, M. Wischnjewsky & F. Barrientos. A new cataclysmic variable star. Publ. Astron. Soc. Pacific 104:1060, 1992 With M. Peña, S. Torres Peimbert & M.T. Ruiz. A newly discovered carbon-poor planetary nebula PN242-371. Astron. Astrophys. 237(2):454-60, 1990 With M. Peña, M.T. Ruiz & L.E. Gonzalez. A new halo planetary nebula. Rev. Mex. Astron. Astrofís. 17(1):25-30, 1989 HONOURS 108113 Maza (asteroid)
Jose Luis Massera
Jose Luis Massera Lerena, Italian-born Uruguayan mathematician (Genoa 08 June 1915 – Montevideo 09 September 2002) Gained international recognition for his studies on non-linear differential equations A much quoted paper With J.J. Schaffer. Linear differential equations and function spaces (1966) Massera lemma On Liapounoff’s conditions of stability. Annals of Mathematics 50(3):705-21, 1949 Massera convergence theorem The existence of periodic solutions of systems of differential equations. Duke Math.J. 17(4):457-75, 1950 Demonstrated variety stable theorem (1950s) INTRODUCED Notion of admissibility with J.J. Schaeffer Notion of exponential dichotomy (1958) with J.J. Schaeffer New notions of stability Definition of equiasymptotic stability with J.J. Schaeffer Operator opening with J.J. Schaeffer Concept of dichotomy of phase space with J.J. Schaeffer EPONYMY Massera converse theorem Massera functions Massera equations Massera principle Massera condition Massera criterion (1958) Massera-Schaeffer existence theorem Massera-Schaeffer inequality Levinson-Massera inequalities Malkin-Massera theorem HONORS 10690 Massera (Asteroid)