Antonio Mandelli
Antonio Mandelli, Argentine naval engineer (fl.1949-78) ACHIEVEMENTS Introduced the concept of influence lines Developed a method by which the exact value of the bending moment amidships for any condition of loading of a given ship can be calculated without resorting to bending-moment curves Developed a method by which the basic calculations of anterior method can be used to determine the buoyancy curve when a complete bending-moment curve is required Developed a method of calculating for a given ship the exact value of bending moment amidships for any condition of loading Simplified calculations of longitudinal bending moments. Trans. Inst. Engineers Shipbuilders Scotland 99 (4):265-88, 1955-6 Enunciated a simple rule for verifying the stability of ships employing metacentric height Estimation of stability after flooding. Shipbuilder & Marine Eng. Builder 67 (633), 1960 Preliminary estimation of stability. Shipbuilder & Marine Eng. Builder 67 (625):104-5, 1960 Proposed an alternative design for container ships (1976) Other works Comparative methods for preliminary design. Shipp. World & Shipbuilder 161 (1968) Elementos de Arquitectura Naval (1960) El calculo del momento flector longitudinal de los buques PATENTS An improved derrick construction GB910074 A (1961) Improved hull for cargo AR262153A (1976) & DE2703381A1 (1977) Ship with loading ramp and an elevator platform AR266852A (1977) & DK151474C (1978) Vessels for loading and unloading the wheel car SE437807B (1978)
Antonio Luiz Patricio da Silva Manso
Antonio Luiz Patrício da Silva Manso, Brazilian physician and naturalist (Santos, São Paulo State 1788 – Campinas, São Paulo State 17 January 1848) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA (1836) Genera (Valid and Incertain) Anisosperma Cayaponia (Cucurbitaceae) Druparia Operculina (Convolvulaceae) Perianthopodus Wilbrandia (Cucurbitaceae) Species Adenocalymma nodosum Allasia jobini Caladium pendulinum Cayaponia espelina Convolvulus polyrhizos Convolvulus puniceus Convolvulus sarcocarpus Druparia racemosa Ipomoea gigantea Ipomoea polyrhizos Jacaranda rufa Manettia auratifolia Operculina convolvulus Perianthopodus carijo Perianthopodus tomba Tabebuia aurea Wilbrandia hibiscoides HONORS Mansoa De Candolle 1838 (Bignoniaceae)
Antonio Divino de Moura
Antonio Divino de Moura, Brazilian meteorologist (Ituitutaba, Minas Gerais State 21 October 1945 – His thesis Eigensolutions of the balance equations over a sphere (1975) was Rossby Award winner as the Best Thesis of Year in Massachusetts Institute of Technology Proposed a mechanism for the occurrence of severe droughts over Northeastern Brazil by establishment of an anomalous thermally circulation in Atlantic Ocean With J. Shukla. On the dynamics of droughts in Northeastern Brazil: observations, theory and numerical experiments with a general circulation model. J. Atmos. Sciences 38(12), 1981 With L. Sun, D.F. Moncunil, H. Li, F.D.A.D.S. Filho & S.E. Zebiak developed the first operational climate dynamical downscaling prediction system (2006) HONOURS Honorary Fellow, Royal Meteorological Society IMO Prize 2018
Antonio da Silva Mello
Antonio da Silva Mello, Brazilian physician (Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais State 10 May 1886 – Rio de Janeiro 19 September 1973) ACHIEVEMENTS Authored about 20 books on anthropology, sociology, psychology, medicine and philosophy Performed works on biological effects of radioactivity that had international repercussion. He distinguished between radio and x-rays effects Ueber die Wirkung der strahlenden Energie auf das Blut und die blutbildenden Organe. Strahlentherapie 6:387, 1915 Experimentelle Untersuchungen uber die biologische Wirkung des Thorium X inbesondere auf das Blut. Z.Klin. Med. 81:285-354, 1915 Described a new device for measuring capillary resistance Silva Mello maneuver for capillary resistance First to draw attention to the effect of psychogenic factors in capillary resistance Die Wandresistenz der Blutkapillaren (Eine einfaches klinische Methode zu ihrer genauen messung) Munchen Med. Wochenschr. 76(41):1717-8, 1929 Described Silva Mello sign in chronic intestinal amoebiasis (left hypogastric tenderness sign) Amibíase intestinal crônica e um symptoma de valor para o seu diagnóstico. Brasil Med. 44(41):1147-52, 1930 Die chronischen Amöben-Infektion des Darmes und ein für ihre Diagnose bedeutsames Symptom. Arch. f. Schiffs-und Tropen-Hygiene 34(8):411, 1930 Described new clinical signs such as xiphoid sign La douleur xiphoidienne et sa valeur diagnostique. Arch. Mal. App. Digest. Par 20:808-34, 1930 Discovered a new set of chronic nephritis Die chronischen syphilitischen Nephritiden als eine selbstandige Gruppe von Nierenkrankheiten. Dtsch. Med. Wschr. 62:70, 1936 As hidroses: um novo conceito de patologia. Rev. Bras. Med. 2:543-56, 1945 Proposed a new visiometer A practical and simple visiometer for the examination of vision and its defects. Rev. Bras. Med. 10:309-13, 1953
Annibal de Mattos
Anníbal Ramos de Mattos, Brazilian industrial chemist (Recife 25 April 1904 – Recife 16 March 1986) With José Julio Bettencourt Rodrigues developed Motogás, an alcohol and ether-based mixture (1920s) With O. Gonçalves de Lima demonstrated that vinasse could be employed as fertilizing (1934) Proposed a process and apparatus for recovering chemicals from alcohol industry and use them as fertilizing agents PATENTS Process and apparatus for producing alcohol from a nutrient medium by fermentation with yeast. US2451156 (1949) Processo Amatos de fermentação contínua nº31.064 Um novo processo para fabrico de açúcar nº 43.045 Brazilian Patent nº 62.597 (1953) Apparatus and method for continuous production of beverage spirits, industrial alcohol and/or fuel
Angelo Machado
Angelo Barbosa Monteiro Machado, Brazilian neuroanatomist and entomologist (Belo Horizonte 22 May 1934 – Belo Horizonte 06 April 2020) Authored about 165 publications His wife Conceição co-authored many relevant papers MORPHOLOGY / ANATOMY Discovered a new function of smooth endoplasmatic reticulum i.e. the formation of noradrenaline synaptic vesicles in axon terminals Elucidated the formation of synaptic vesicles containing norepinephrine from the smooth endoplasmic reticulum With C.R. Machado & L.E. Wragg. Catecholamines and granular vesicles in adrenergic axons of the developing pineal body of the rat. Experientia 24(5):464-5, 1968 Distinguished histochemically serotoninergic and noradrenergic neurons With C.R. Machado & L.E. Wragg. A histochemical study of sympathetic innervation and 5-hydroxytryptamine in the developing pineal body of the rat. Brain Res. 8:310-8, 1968 With C.R. Machado & L.E. Wragg. Circadian rhythm of serotonin in the pineal body of immunosympathectomized immature rats. Science 164:442-3, 1969 First to demonstrate the possibility of recovery of sympathetic and parasympathetic innervation of denervated organs during the acute phase of Chagas disease With C.R. Machado & C. Chiari. Recovery of heart norepinephrine depletion in experimental Chagas disease. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 27 (1Pt1):20-4, 1978 (sympathetic) With C.R. Machado & M.V. Gómez. Changes in choline acetyl transferase activity of rat tissues during Chagas disease. Braz. J. Med. Biol. Res. 20(6):697-702, 1987 (parasympathetic) Authored about 30 papers concerning morphology of vertebrates (mainly mammalian and birds) Discovered that armadillo have doesn’t pineal gland With C.R. Machado & R. Rossoni investigated autonomic innervation of the salivary glands in the marmoset (Callithrix penicillata Jordan) in 1973, armadillo, ant eater and sloth (1981) and cebid monkeys (1992) Comparative Anatomy With R.M. Cosenza & J.A. Sousa Neto. The pineal recess of the opossum: a scanning and transmission electron microscope study. Micr. Electr. Biol. Cell. 1:101-14, 1991 With C.A. Redins. Histologic study of the pineal organ in tinamid birds, Rev. Bras. Biol. 49(2):429-34, 1989 With R.M. Cosenza. Catecholamine containing nerve terminals in the brain stem of the opossum Didelphis albiventris Lund 1841). Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 1:269-88, 1978 Electron microscopy of developing sympathetic fibers in the rat pineal gland. The formation of granular vesicles. Progr. Brain Res. 34:177-85, 1971 With L.C. Faleiro & W. Silva. Study of mast cell and histamine contents of the pineal body. Zeitschr. f. Zellforsch.Mikros. Anat. 65:521-9, 1965 With L.J.A. Di Dio. Ampulla of the terminal ileum in some Brazilian primates. Anat. Anz. 113:45-57, 1963 Morfologia da “eminentia ilealis” em alguns primatas brasileiros com 36 observações “in vivo”. Braz. J.Med. Biol. Res. 20:123-230, 1963 Pesquisas citométricas em centros neurossecretores de alguns Edentata (1961) With L.J.A. DiDio. Papila ileo-ceco-cólica em mamíferos. Rev. Assoc. Med. Minas Gerais 8(12):51, 1957 ENTOMOLOGY DESCRIBED ODONATA TAXA Genera Helveciagrion 1980 Navicordulia 1995 with J.M. Costa Amazoneura 2004 Schizocordulia 2005 Tukanobasis 2009 Denticulobasis 2009 Tuberculobasis 2009 Austrotepuibasis 2011 with Lencioni Carajathemis 2012 Franciscobasis 2015 with Bedê Franciscagrion 2015 with Bedê Species 98 (until 2017) Others Helicopsyche planorbides 1957 (Trichoptera) HONORS Machadoporites Nemesio 2005 (Cnidaria) Machadagrion Lencioni 2022 (Odonata) invalid His wife, Conceição Ribeiro da Silva Machado, morphologist (Passagem de Mariana, Minas Gerais State 16 September 1936 – Belo Horizonte 23 August 2007) See above relevant papers with her husband (as C.R. Machado) Gave first evidence for GNDF synthesis by cardiomyocytes With P.M. Martinelli, E. Camargos, G. Morel, C.A. Tavares & P.R.A. Nagib. Rat heart GDNF: effect of chemical sympathectomy. Histochem. Cell Biol. 118:337-43, 2002 With H. Chiarini-Garcia & A.A.D. Santos. Mast cell types and cell-to-cell interactions in lymph nodes of the opossum Didelphis albiventris. Anat. Embryol. 201:197-206, 2001 With R.M.E. Arantes, S. Lourenssen & M.G. Blenner Hassett. Early damage of sympathetic neurons after co-culture with macrophages: a model of neuronal injury in vitro. NeuroReport 11:177-81, 2000 First to report the presence of monoamines in C cells of primates Monoamines in the C cells of the thyroid glands of Callithricid primates. Histochemistry 48:187-90, 1976