Geraldo Conrado Melcher
Geraldo Conrado Melcher, Brazilian mining engineer and geologist (São Paulo 07 October 1924 – São Paulo 09 June 2011) Co-authored a paper with great repercussion that confirmed the geochronological correlation between Brazil and Africa continent With P.M. Hurley, F.F. M. de Almeida, U.G. Cordani, J.R. Rand, K. Kawashita, P. Vandoros, W.H. Pinson Jr. & H.W. Fairbairn. Test of continental drift by comparison of radioactive eggs. Science 157(3788):495-500, 1967 With P. A. Andery helped to develop Serrana process of separation and concentration of phosphates in minerals with low phosphate content or alkaline rocks employing flotation (1960s) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With J.M.V. Coutinho. Levantamento geológico e petrográfico na ilha do Montão de Trigo. Rev. Bras. Geoc. 3(4):243-56, 1973 With C.B. Gomes, U.G. Cordani, J.S. Bettencourt, E.C. Damaceno. V.A.V. Girardi & A.J. Melfi. Geologia e petrologia das rochas metamórficas e graniticas associadas do vale do Ribeira de Iguape, SP e PR. Rev. Bras. Geoc. 3(2):97-123, 1973 With U.G. Cordani. A geochronological comparison of West Africa and South America basement. Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union 53:178, 1972 With G.E. Tolbert, J.W. Tremaine & C.B. Gómez. The recently discovered Serra dos Carajás iron deposits, Northern Brazil. Econ. Geol. 66:985-94, 1971 With P.M. Hurley, F.F.M. De Almeida, U.G. Cordani & K.R. Koch. Surface density values for the earth from satellite and gravity observation. J. Roy. Astron. Soc. Geophys. 21:1-12, 1970 With P.M. Hurley, W.H. Pinson Jr. & H.W. Fairbairn. Some orogenic episodes in South America by K/Ar and whole-rock Rb/Sr dating. Canad. Jour. Earth Sci. 5:633-8, 1968 With U.G. Cordani & F.F.M. De Almeida. Outline of the Precambrian geochronology of South America. Canad. Jour. Earth Sci. 5:629-32, 1968 With F.F.M. De Almeida, U.G. Cordani, K. Kawashita & P. Vandoros. Radiometric age determinations from Northern Brazil. Bol. Soc. Bras. Geol. 5:2-14, 1968 Contribuição ao conhecimento do distrito mineral do Ribeira do Iguape. Thesis, Universidade de São Paulo (1968) With J.M.V. Coutinho. Rochas alcalinas e carbonatito de Anápolis, Estado de santa catarina. Bol. Soc. Bras. Geol. 15:59-93, 1966 O carbonatito de Jacupiranga. Bol. Fac. Filos. Cien. Letras Univ. São Paulo 282 (1965) With R.F. Johnson. Geologia e depósitos minerais do vale do Rio Ribeira do Iguape. Div. Fom. Prod. Mineral 98-99, 1956 Nota sobre o distrito alcalino de Jacupiranga, estado de São Paulo. Notas Prelim. Div. Geol. Min. 84 (1954) With H. Mau. Novas observações geológicas na região de Caçapava do Sul. Rio Grande do Sul. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 32(1):43-50, 1950 HONORS Melcherite Andrade, Atencio, Menezes Filho & Spratt 2018 (Mineral)
Gastão Galhardo Madeira
Gastão Galhardo Madeira, Brazilian aeronautical engineer (Ubatuba, São Paulo State 20 June 1869 – São Paulo 04 August 1942) Discovered the principle that explained the suspension of birds bodies and their displacement due to removal of gravity center Authored a complete study of his works in newspaper Correio Paulistano during January 1892 (days 6,8,9, 10,12,13,14,15,16,23,24 & 27) PATENTS (obtained in Brazil, French, Germany, Italy, England and USA) A new dirigible aerostat (1890) Aviplane, a device to assert more equilibrium stability to airplanes(1911) with Hilário Freire A new kind of airplane (1913) A mechanism of movable pieces to assert of automatic stabilization of airplanes and analogues (1913) & PF475.066 (1914) A Flight simulator PF 474.398 (1914) Electric signs ruled by a revolving door. PF480.454 (1915) Elevator control mechanism of airplanes and other aerial devices. PF491.840 (1916) A new kind of air screw for airplanes, sea-planes, dirigibles and other similar (1939)
Gaspar Marcano
Gaspar Marcano Echenique, Venezuelan physician and anthropologist (Caracas 01 April 1850 –Paris, France 16 January 1910) Brother of scientist Vicente Marcano ACHIEVEMENTS Performed a study about leprosy that was awarded by Academie de Medecine de Paris Invented hemostereometer, a device for measuring blood sedimentation Developed Marcano solution or fluid for counting blood red cells Collected an important showcase of cranes and skeletons (today in Musee de Homme at Paris) MEMBERSHIP/HONORS First Foreigner to occupy an official position in Faculté de Medecine de Paris (1878) Honorary Member, Societé Anatomique de Paris Bronze Medal, French Public Assistence
Gabriel Moreno
José Gabriel Moreno Espinoza, Peruvian physician and naturalist (Canta, Huamantanga District 19 March 1735 – Lima 09 May 1809) Studied botany under Joseph de Jussieu Studied medicinal properties of various plants Explored Vulcan Pichincha in order to determine vapors temperature being the memory that published about it gained a good repercussion SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Prelusión que en el examen de anatomia (1796) Almanaque peruano y guia de forasteros para el año de 1805 Almanaque peruano y guia de forasteros para el año de 1807 Almanaque peruano y guia de forasteros para el año de 1810 HONORS Subgenus Morenia Ruiz & Pavón 1794 (Arecaceae)
Fritz Muller
Johann Friedrich Theodor Muller, German-born Brazilian naturalist (Windischholzhausen Village, near Erfurt 31 March 1821 – Blumenau, Santa Catarina State 21 May 1897) Authored about 260 works Discovered and described dimorphism in larvae and pupa of Blephariceridae family Demonstrated the differences between termite caste from ant caste systems Reported that larvae of certain butterflies feed out some plants and that this fact could be take account of by taxonomy Discovered tropholaxis phenomenon between a Hemiptera larva (Membracis sp.) and a bee (Melipona sp.) or some ant species (1873) Examined that orchids are self-sterile plants Discovered the symbiosis between plant Cecropia sp. and the ants Described a new nictitropic motion of leaves Formulated Muller-Haeckel law biogenetic (today discredited) Classified the sambaquis in 3 types in according to its shells and described the cranes found in it Proposed the first mathematical model of population dynamics Proposed the concept of Mullerian mimicry (1878-9) DESCRIBED VALID NEW TAXA Trichoptera Genera/Subgenera Dicaminus 1879 Grumicha 1879 Grumichella 1879 Marilia 1878 Nectopsyche 1879 Peltopsyche 1879 Rhyacophylax 1879 Rhyacopsyche 1879 Species Dicaminus ladislavii 1879 Eutonella peltopsychodes 1921 Leptonema eugnathum 1921 Marilia major 1880 Marilia minor 1880 Nectopsyche bella 1921 Nectopsyche gemma 1890 Nectopsyche modesta 1921 Oxyethira hyalina 1879 Oxyethira spirogyrae 1879 Peltopsyche maclachlani 1879 Peltopsyche sieboldi 1879 Phylloicus bromelianum 1880 Phylloicus major 1880 Phylloicus medius 1880 Rhyacopsyche hagenii 1879 Xiphocentron saltuum 1921 Annelida Genera Glycinde 1858 Hermundura 1858 Magelona 1858 Sigambra 1858 Species Cherusca nitens 1858 Glycinde multidens 1858 Halosydnella fusca 1858 Hermundura tricuspis 1858 Isolda pulchella 1858 Magelona papillicornis 1858 Magelona papilliformis 1858 Namanereis littoralis 1872 Pontoscolex corethrurus 1857 Sigambra grubii 1858 Terebellides anguicomus 1858 Platyhelminthes (with Schultze 1857) Genus Geoplana Species Geobia subterranea Geoplana (Geoplana) burmeisteri Geoplana (Geoplana) marmorata Geoplana (Geoplana) rufiventris Geoplana elegans Notogynaphalia atra Notogynaphalia octostriata Pasipha pulchella Pseudogeoplana maximiliani Pseudogeoplana nephelis Pseudogeoplana tristriata Crustacea Genera Batea 1865 Elpidium 1880 Lernaeodiscus 1862 Species Batea catharinensis 1865 Cancrion cancrorum 1864 Elpidium bromeliarum 1880 Heterias exul 1892 Lernaeodiscus porcellanae 1862 Macrobrachium potiuna 1880 Synurella ambulans 1846 Others Genera Aglauropsis 1865 (Cnidaria) Carijoa 1867 (Cnidaria) Darwinella 1865 (Porifera) Olindias 1861 (Cnidaria) Tamoya 1859 (Cnidaria) Species Aglauropsis agassizi 1865 (Cnidaria) Chiropsalmus quadrumanus 1859 (Cnidaria) Glossiphonia verrucata 1844 (Hirudinea) Lissomyema exilii 1883 (Echiura) Olindias sambaquiensis 1861 (Cnidaria) Paltostoma torrentium (Diptera) Placobdella costata 1846 (Hirudinea) Procornitermes lespesii 1873 (Isoptera) Tamoya haplonema 1859 (Cnidaria) EPONYMY Mullerian association Muller bodies (in the basis of petiole of Cecropia sp. leaves) HONORS Fritzianira Castro & Lima 1977 (Crustacea) Fritzia O.P. Cambridge 1879 (Arachnida) Fritziana Mello Leitão 1937 (Amphibia) Muelleritermes Oliveira, Rocha & Cancello 2015 (Isoptera)
Friedrich Muellerried
Friedrich Karl Gustav Muellerried, German-born Mexican geographer and paleontologist (Karlsruhe, Baden 14 August 1891 – Ciudad de Mexico 22 May 1952) Authored 108 works DESCRIBED FOSSIL MOLLUSCA TAXA Genera Chiapasia 1931 Chiapasella 1933 Species Agriopleura douvillei 1933 Apricardia mongesi 1947 Bournonia carrilloi 1947 Cardium ochoterenai 1933 Chiapasella pauciplicata 1931 Colostracon tehuacanensis 1934 Durania coahuilensis 1952 Durania mexicana 1947 Monopleura aguilerai 1933 Monopleura felixii 1933 Monopleura klinghardti 1933 Monopleura medellini 1933 Monopleura mexicana 1933 Monopleura ochoterenai 1933 Monopleura paronai 1933 Monopleura texcalensis 1933 Monopleura zapotitlensis 1933 Neoradiolites ordonezi 1946 Perna lamberti 1934 Ptychomya mexicana 1948 Tetragonites burckhardti 1933 Toucasia mexicana 1944 Toucasia neoleonesa 1948 Xylobius mexicanus 1942 Others Clypeaster chiapasensis 1951 (Echinodermata) Helicoprion mexicanus 1946 (Pisces) HONORS Muellerriedia Alencaster 1999 (Fossil Mollusca)