San-Yin Wong
San-yin Wong or Hsin-yen Huang, Hong Kong biochemist (1894-?) Developed Wong test Colorimetric determination of iron and hemoglobin in blood. J. Biol Chem 77:409, 1928 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY The use of persulfate in the estimation of nitrogen by the Arnold-Gunning modification of Kjeldahl’s method. J. Biol. Chem. 55(3):427-30, 1923 Color tests for simple sugars. Chin. J. Physiol. 1-2:255, 1928 The reduction of alkaline ferricyanide by adrenaline and uric acid (1929)
Ronald Woodman
Ronald Francisco Woodman Pollitt, Peruvian engineer and physicist (Piura 22 April 1934 – From English descent First to explain how the ion-ion collisions affect the gyroresonance Developed new techniques to exploit the use of radars for the study of related atmospheric and ionospheric phenomena such as clear atmospheric turbulence and ionospheric irregularities Observed new phenomena With J. Chau. Equatorial quasiperiodic echoes from field-aligned irregularities observed over Jicamarca. Geophys. Rev. Letters 28(2), 2001 Showed and confirmed the potential of VHF radars to observe the electrically neutral atmosphere (1974), a seminal work that led to the active research using VHF radar With A. Guillén. Radio observation of winds and turbulence in the stratosphere and mesosphere. J. Atmos. Sci. 31:493-505, 1974 One of the first to measure the scintillation of satellite signals in equatorial latitudes Developed a complete theory about coherent scattering A general statistical instrument theory of atmospheric and ionospheric radars. J. Geophys. Res. Atm. (1991) First measurements of this type that have been used to obtain least squares estimates of ion compositions and temperatures With F.S. Rodrigues, M.J. Nicolls, D.L. Hysell, J. Chau & S.A. Gonzalez. Ion gyroresonance observations at Jicamarca revisited. Geophys. Res. Letters 34(13):L13107, 2007 First to present the main sources of sporadic meteors as inferred from meteor-head echoes by a high-power large-aperture radar (HPLAR) With J. Chau & F. Galindo. Sporadic meteor sources as observed by the Jicamarca high-power VHF radar. Icarus 188 (1):162-74, 2007 Proposed that ionosondes can be used to measure vectorial night time ionospheric drifts at F region altitude With J. Chau & R.R. Ilma. Comparison of ionosonde and incoherent scatter drift measurements at the magnetic equator. Geophys. Res. Lett. (2006) Presented the first quasiperiodic echoes from 3-m E region field-aligned irregularities observed in the South American sector, just outside the magnetic equator With J. Chau. Low-latitude quasiperiodic echoes observed with the Piura VHF radar in the E region (1999) Showed that vertical Doppler velocities of daytime 150-km echoes represent the vertical EXB drift velocities at F region altitudes With F. Villanueva. Comparison of electric fields measured at F region heights with 150 km irregularity drift measurements (1995) With Y. Maekawa, S. Fukao, M. Yamamoto, M.D. Yamanaka, T. Tsuda & S. Karo. First observation of the upper stratospheric vertical wind velocities using the Jicamarca VHF radar. Geophys. Res. Lett. 20(20):2235-8, 1993 First to analyze a spread F event with layering With D.L. Hysell, M.C. Kelley & W.E. Swartz. Seeding and layering of equatorial spread F by gravity wave. J Geophys. Res. Atmos. 95 (A10):17253-60, 1990 First to report daytime spread F-like irregularities With J.E. Pingree & W.E. Swartz. Spread F-like irregularities observed by the Jicamarca radar during the day-time. J. Atmos. Solar Terre Physics (1985) With E. Kudeki. A causal relationship between lightning and explosive spread F (1984) METHODS/TECHNIQUES Introduced the first antenna “compression” scheme for coherent radars With J. Chau. Antenna compression using binary phase coding: an imaging application. Radio Science (2000) Developed a new signal processing approach With E. Kudeki & S. Bhattacharyya. A new approach in incoherent scatter F region EXB drift measurements at Jicamarca. J. Geophys. Res. Atm. 104 (A12):28145-62, 1999 Described a technique for estimating the background zonal electric field from the interferometry With D.L. Hysell & M.F Larsen. Julia radar studies of electric fields in the equatorial electrojet (1997) Revised and modified formulae and algorithms On the true velocity in full correlation analysis. Radio Science 30 (5):1459-66, 1995 Described a signal processing and control systems for atmospheric sounding radars With M.F. Sarango, E. Ragaini & E.H. Vasquez. A multi-DSP signal processing and control system for MST radar (1995) With E. Ragaini. A double demodulation algorithm for narrow spectral features (1994) With M. Sarango. Doing passive radio astronomy with a MST/ST system: a fast crosscorrelation algorithm (1994) With M.F. Larsen, R.D. Palmer, S. Fukao, M. Yamamoto, T. Tsuda & S. Kato. An analysis technique for deriving vector winds and in-beam incidence angles from radar interferometer measurements. J. Atm. Ocean. Technology 9(1), 1992 With E. Kudeki. A post-statistics steering technique for MST radar applications. Radio Science (1990) With M.P. Sulzer. Pulse compression hardware decoding techniques for MST radars. Radio science (1985) With C. Gonzales. Pulse compression techniques with application to HF probing of the mesosphere. Radio Science (1984) With M.P. Sulzer. Quasi-complementary codes – a new technique for MST radar sounding. Radio Science (1984) With C. Gonzales & R.A. Behnke. Doppler measurements with a digital ionosonde – Technique and comparison of results with incoherent scatter data. Radio Science (1982) With J. Rottger & R.P. Kugel. A coherent integrator-decoder preprocessor for the SOUSY-VHF Radar. Radio Science (1980) HONOURS Appleton Prize, International Union of Radio Science (1999) Elektron Award, IEEE (2007) Foreign Associate Member, National Academy of Sciences, US (2007)
Rodolfo Wagenknecht
Rodolfo Wagenknecht Huss, Chilean entomologist and botanist (Valdivia 26 August 1899 – La Serena 26 May 1985) From German descent SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Observaciones biologicas sobre la Centris rodophtalma. Rev. Chil. Hist. Nat. 43:133-7, 1940 La Hirmoneura orellanae. Rev. Chil. Hist. Nat. 43:145-7, 1940 Una plaza, formada con plantas silvestres chilenas. Rev. Chil. Hist. Nat. 44:423, 1940 Nueva area de distribución para un elatérido chileno. Rev. Chil. Hist. Nat. 45:185, 1943 Consideraciones zoogeográficas de los Midásideos chilenos. Rev. Chil. Hist. Nat. 46-7:131-3, 1944 Nueva distribución de una mariposa chilena. Rev. Chil. Hist. Nat. 48:76-7, 1945 Diversas cactáceas parasitadas por Phrygilanthus aphyllus. Rev. Univ. 35(1):187-8, 1950 Algunas cactáceas de Chile. Rev. Univ. 40-1(1):97-107, 1955-6 Xylocopa viridigastra Lepeletier en Chile (Hymenoptera:Apoidea). Rev. Univ. 48:69-73, 1963 Observaciones biológicas sobre la Eroessa chilensis. Anal. Mus. Hist. Nat. Valparaiso 1:173-7, 1968 Observaciones botánicas y zoológicas en la región de las Termas de Puyehue y costa cerca de Osorno. Anal. Mus. Hist. Nat. Valparaiso 1:179-85, 1968 Apuntes sobre las especies chilenas del género Trichothurgus (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae). Rev. Univ. 53(31):121-7, 1968 Contribución a la biologia de los Apoidea chilenos. Parte I. Subfamilia Ericrocinae. Parte II. Subfamilia Exomalopsinae. Anal. Mus. Hist. Nat. Valparaiso 2:171-81, 1969 Contribución a la biologia de los Apoidea chilenos. Partes III y IV. Anal. Mus. Hist. Nat. Valparaiso 3:11-1271, 1970 Contribución a la biologia de los Apoidea chilenos. Parte V. Familia Anthophoridae. Anal. Mus. Hist. Nat. Valparaiso 4:277-86, 1971 Contribución a la biologia y distribución geográfica de Neofidelia prófuga Moure & Michener (Hymenoptera, Fideliidae. Anal. Mus. Hist. Nat. Valparaiso 8:85-6, 1975 HONORS Subgenus Wagenknechtia Moure 1950 (Hymenoptera)
Roberto Wernicke
Roberto Enrique Martin Wernicke, Argentine pathologist (Buenos Aires 23 May 1854 – Buenos Aires 14 October 1922) Son of German immigrants Described a new systemic mycosis caused by Coccidioides posadasii (Posadas-Wernicke disease) Described the genus Coccidium and species Coccidium seeberi 1903 (Protozoa) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Die Parasiten der Hausthiere in Buenos Aires. Dtsch fur Tiermedizin 12:301-7, 1886 Parasitos de la oveja. Cestoideos. Ann. S.R.A. 22:530-3, 555-7, 577-80, 1886 La lombriz del pulmón de la oveja. An. Inst. Agr. Vet. Prov. Buenos Aires 512, 1886-8 La lengua negra (1889) Enfermedades de los animales domesticos. Anal. Inst. Agron. Veter. 4(27):531-2, 1889 El Echinorhynchus gigas. Rev. Soc. Med. Arg. 1(1), 1892 Pentastomas. Rev. Soc. Med. Arg. 1:186, 1892 Ueber sinen protozoenbefund bei mycosis fungoides. Centralbl. Bakt. Parasit. Infekt. Krankheiten 12:859-61, 1892 Nueva contribución a la parasitologia argentina. Ann. Circ. Med. Arg. 15, 1892 Contribución al estudio de los bacilos acido-resistentes de la manteca. Ann. Circ. Med. Arg. 27:320, 1904 Riñon flotante canceroso Estiramiento de nervios en la ataxia locomotriz
Richard Wichmann
Richard (Ricardo) Wichmann, German-born Argentine geologist and stratigrapher (Hamburgo 10 November 1881 – 15 August 1930) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Contribución al conocimiento geologico de los Territorios del Neuquen y del Rio Negro. Bol. Direc. Gen. Minas Geol. 39 (1934) La isla Penguin y sus depósitos de guano (Territorio Nacional de Santa Cruz). Publ. Misc. 100. Direc. Minas Geol. Min. Agric. Nac. (1933) With L. Catalano. Informes sobre depósitos de guano en dos islas de La costa Atlantica (1933) Datos geologicos sobre la región de Salagasta, Provincia de Mendoza. Publ. Direc. Gen. Minas Geol. Hidrol. 37 (1928) Contribución a la geologia de los departamentos Chical-Co’y Puelen de la parte occidental de La Pampa Central (1928) Sobre facies lacustre senoniana de lós estratos com dinosaurios y su fauna. Bol. Acad. Nac. Cien. 30 (1927) Resultados de un viaje de estúdios geológicos em lós Territorios del Río Negro y del Chubut (1927) Nuevas observaciones geológicas en La parte Oriental del Neuquén y en El Territorio Del Rio Negro (1924) Estudio geológico de la zona de reserva de la exploración nacional de petróleo em Comodoro Rivadavia (Territorio Nacional Del Chubut). Bol. Min. Agric. Nac. 25 Ser. B (1921) With F. Pastore. Contribución à la geologia de la región comprendida entre El Rio Negro y Arroio Valcheta. Bol. Direc. Gen. Minas Geol. 23(4), 1920 Investigaciones hidrogeologicas en Puerto deseado y sus alrededores. Bol. Direc. Gen. Minas 20 Ser. B (1919) Las rocas de la isla Quintana. Physis 4:342, 1918 Estudios geologicos e hidrogeologicos en la región comprendida entre Boca del Rio Negro, San Antonio y Choele-Choel (1918) Geologia e hidrogeologia de Bahía Blanca. Na. Min. Agr. Nac. 12(1), 1918 El estado actual de Monte Hermoso. Physis 2 (1916) Las capas con dinosaurios en la costa sur del Rio Negro frente a General Roca. Physis 2:258-62, 1916 Observaciones geológicas en El Gran Bajo de San Julián y sus alrededores (Territoro de Santa Cruz) Los estratos com dinosaurios y su techo en el este del Territorio de Nequén HONORS (Fossil) Wichmannella Bertels 1969 (Ostracoda) Wichmanniceras Leanza 1945 (Ammonita)
Reinhard Weber
Reinhard Weber, German-born Mexican paleobotanist (Munster 02 June 1938 – Ciudad de Mexico 13 August 2009) Authored 31 papers DESCRIBED FOSSIL PLANTAE TAXA Genera Asinisetum 2008 Dictyotrichia 2008 Dorfiella 1976 Kobalostrobus 1981 with Serlin & Delevoryas Laurozamites 1995 with Zamudio Varela Lonesomia 1997 Sonoraphyllum 1995 Species Aachenia knoblochi 1975 Asinisetum dissimile 2008 Asinisetum formosum 2008 Asterotheca santaclarae 1985 Bennettistemon sonorense 2010 Cycadolepis auroleporis 2008 Cynepteris sonorensis 1985 Dictyotrichia john-strongii 2008 Dictyotrichia major 2008 Dorfiella auriculata 1976 Equisetites aequecaliginosus 2005 Kobalostrobus olmosensis 1981 with Serlin & Delevoryas Laurozamites pinna 1995 with Zamudio Varela Laurozamites tarahumara 1995 with Zamudio Varela Laurozamites yaquii 1995 with Zamudio Varela Lonesomia mexicana 1997 Macropterygium mexicanum 1996 Macropterygium truncatum Mertensides crusgalli 1985 Phlebopteris crenulata 2008 Phlebopteris otongensis 2008 Salvinia coahuilensis 1973 Scoresbya pinnata 1995 Sonoraphyllum mirabile 1995 Williamsonia newberryi 2010 Williamsonia opilionoides 2008 HONORS Reinweberia Magallón Puebla & Cevallos Ferriz 1994 (Fossil Plantae)