Xing Xue Li
Xing Xue Li / Hsing-Hsueh Lee, Chinese palaeobotanist (08 April 1917 – 31 October 2010) DESCRIBED FOSSIL PLANTAE TAXA Order Gigantopteridales 1983 with Yao Genera Aipteridium 1983 with Yao Amdrupiopsis 1952 with Sze Cathaysiodendron 1963 Chiaohoella 1980 with Ye Chilinia 1980 with Ye Distichotheca 1974 with Deng, Zhou, Xu & Zhu Eogymnocarpium 1986 with Ye & Zhou Fascipteris 1974 with Deng, Zhou, Xu & Zhu Gigantonomia 1983 with Yao Gigantotheca 1983 with Yao Hamatophyton 1974 with Deng, Zhou, Xu & Zhu Hunanophyton 1974 Otofolium 1974 with Deng, Zhou, Xu & Zhu Pectinangium 1974 with Deng, Zhou, Xu & Zhu Reticalethopteris 1993 with Shen & Wu Sinophyllum 1952 with Sze Strigillotheca 1974 with Deng, Zhou, Xu & Zhu Torreyocladus 1980 with Ye Algae (1978 with Cai) Genera Discinella Emplectophycus Uncatoella HONORS (Fossil Plantae) Leeites Zodrow & Gao 1991 Lioxylon Zhang, Wang, Saito, Li & Zheng 2006 Xingxueanthus Wang & Wang 2010 Xingxueina Sun & Dilcher 1997 Xingxuephyllum Sun & Dilcher 2002
William Roland Liebenberg
William Roland Liebenberg, South-African mineralogist and metallurgist (Lichtenburg District 28 February 1919 – 1988) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY The basal rocks of the Bushveld complex in the Marico District south of Dwarsberg. Trans. Geol. Soc. S. Africa 45:81-108, 1942 Notes on the occurrence of a pleochroic variety of cassiterite from South Africa. Trans. Geol. Soc. S. Africa 48:1-9, 1945 With L.H. Ahrens. Geochemical studies on some of the rarer elements in South African minerals and rocks. I. Lithium in mica and feldspar. Trans. Geol. Soc. S. Africa 48:75, 1945 With L.H. Ahrens. Qualitative spectrochemical analysis of minerals and rocks. Trans. Geol. Soc. S. Africa 49:133, 1946 Rare minerals in the Banket of the Witwatersrand system. Dissertation, Pretoria University (1948) With L.H. Ahrens. Tin and indium in mica as determined spectrographically. Am. Miner. 35:571-8, 1950 The occurrence and origin of gold and radioactive minerals in the Witwatersrand System, the Dominion reef, the Ventersdorp Contact Reef and the Black Reef. Trans. Geol. Soc. South Africa, vol 58, 1955 A mineralogical approach to the development of the uranium extraction processes practiced on the Witwatersrand. J. S. Afr. Inst. Min. Metal. 21:153-208, 1956 The mode of occurrence and theory of origin of the uranium minerals and gold in the Witwatersrand ores. Proc. 2nd Intern. Conf. Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy (1958) With R.J. Ortlepp. Mineralogical report on samples of ore from the Namib lead mine (1958) On the origin of uranium, gold and osmiridium in the conglomerates of the Witwatersrand goldfields. Neues Jahrb. Mineral. 94:831-67, 1960 With A.J. Burger & L.O. Nicolaysen. Evidence for the extreme age of certain minerals from the Dominion Reef conglomerates and the underlying granite in the Western Transvaal. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 26:15-24, 1962 With H. Schweigart. Mineralogy and chemical behavior of some refractory gold ores from the Barberton Mountain Land. Report, National Inst. Metallurgy 8, 1966 Mineralogical features of gold ores in South Africa (Gold metallurgy in South Africa). Chamber of Mines S. Africa (1972) HONORS Liebenbergite de Waal & Calk 1973 (Mineral)
Viktor Leinz
Viktor Leinz, German-born Brazilian geologist, petrographer and mineralogist (Heidelberg, Baden Württemberg State 18 December 1904 – São Paulo 27 March 1983) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With C.W. Correns. Tuffige sedimente des tobasees Nordsumatra als Beispiele fur die sedimentpetrographische. Bedeutung von Struktur und Textur. Sonder-Abdruck aus dem Centralbl. f. Min. Jahrg. Abt A 11, 1933 Ein Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Gesteine von Angola. Zentralbl. f. Min. Abt A 4:97-102, 1935 With O.H. Leonardos. Notas sobre as esmeraldas da Fazenda das Lajes, Itaberahy, Goyaz (1936) Estudos sobre a glaciação permo-carbonífera do sul do Brasil. Bol. D.N.P.M. Ser. Fomento 21:4-7, 1937 A silificação nos sedimentos gondwanicos no sul do Brasil e a sua origem. Ann. Acad. Bras. Ciencias 10(3), 1938 With L.J. Moraes & E. Orosco. Estudo do agalmatólito (1938) Observação nos contactos de diabásio com sedimentos. Serv. Geol. Min. Rio de Janeiro 7:13-16, 1938 New fossil pearly freshwater mussels from deposits on upper Amazon of Peru (1938) With G. Paiva Teixeira. Contribuição para a geologia do petróleo no sudoeste de Mato Grosso (1939) Petrologia das jazidas de apatita de Ipanema (1940) Caolim varvítico postglacial do Rio Pardo, Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (1941) With E.A. Teixeira. Ouro no bloco do Butiá (Rio Grande do Sul) 1942 With H. Pinagel. Estanho e tungstênio no Rio Grande do Sul (1945) Ocorrências de calcário no Rio Grande do Sul e prospecção da jazida de Vacacaí no município de São Gabriel. Estudos Bras. Geol. (1946) Gênese da jazida de cobre de Caraíba, Bahia. Eng. Min. Met. 11(65):277-81, 1946 A fossa do Camaquã de Passo do Mendonça, Rio Grande do Sul. Miner. Metal. Rio de Janeiro 4(73):22-23, 1948 Estudo genético do minério de manganês da Serra do Navio, Território Federal do Amapá. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 20(2):211-21, 1948 Pequenas notas geológicas e petrográficas sobre o Território do Amapá (1949) Contribuição a geologia dos derrames basálticos do sul do Brasil (1949) O petróleo de Nova Olinda. Bol. Paul. Geogr. (1955) With A.M. Vieira Carvalho. Contribuição à geologia da Bacia de São Paulo (1957) HONORS Leinzia Mendes 1949 (Fossil Bivalvia)
Tungsheng Liu
Tungsheng (Dongsheng) Liu, Chinese geologist and archaeologist (Shenyang, Liaoning 22 November 1917 – Beijing 06 March 2008) Authored about 300 papers Demonstrated that loess was laid down by wind (1960s) Demonstrated that loess provides a complete and accurate record of environmental change Discovered the underlying causes of Keshan disease (deficiencies of trace elements) DESCRIBED FOSSIL VERTEBRATA TAXA (Pisces) Genera Asiacanthus 1948 Sinolepis 1958 with Pan Sunolepis 1957 Tungtingichthys 1962 with Liu & Tang Species Asiacanthus multituberculatus 1948 Sinolepis macrocephala 1958 with Pan Sinolepis wutungensis 1958 with Pan Sunolepis yumenensis 1957 Tungtingichthys gracilis 1962 with Liu & Tang Others Bunolistriodon intermedius 1963 with Lee (Mammalia) HONORS Tyler Prize for Environment (2002) Liudongshengite Yang, Gibbs, Schwenk, Xie, Gu, Downs & Evans 2021 (Mineral)
Tsung Dao Lee
Tsung Dao Lee, US/Chinese physicist (Shanghai, 24 November 1926 – San Francisco, California 04 August 2024) ACHIEVEMENTS Proved Lee-Yang theorem (1952) With C.N. Yang created the concept of G parity (1955) and proposed the existence of W particle, the intermediate boson Predicted with Yang the violation of parity conservation (1956) independent of studies made by Salam and Landau (1956) Established with colleagues the field of non-topological solitons (1975) Developed a new rapidly convergent iterative procedure to solve a class of Schrodinger equation with R. Friedberg and W.Q. Zhao (2008) HONORS Nobel Physics Prize (1957) Asteroid 3443 Leetsungdao EPONYMY Kinoshita-Lee-Nauenberg theorem Lee-Yang property Lee model of Quantum Field Theory Friedberg-Lee non-topological soliton See http://tdlee.ccast.ac.cn/eindex.html
Tobias Lasser
Tobías Lasser, Venezuelan botanist (Agua Larga, Falcón State 24 May 1911 – Caracas 25 May 2006) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Abolboda killipii 1944 Aniba tschudyana 1948 Beilschmiedia lundelliana 1942 Beilschmiedia roehliana 1946 Bonnetia kathleenae 1946 Calea phelpsiae 1950 with Maguire Clusia phelpsae 1950 with Maguire Clusia scariosa 1950 with Maguire Ditassa acerifolia 1950 with Maguire Endlicheria racemosa 1942 Eugenia mcvaughi 1981 with Steyermark Everardia hitchcockii 1950 with Maguire Eupatorium angulicaule 1950 Guayana yavianum 1954 with Maguire Hirtella pimichina 1954 with Maguire Leitgebia gleasoniana 1945 Meliosma meridensis 1943 Meliosma nubicola 1966 with Steyermark Mollinedia yaviensis 1950 Nectandra bartlettiana 1942 Nectandra glandulifolia 1942 Nectandra larensis 1942 Nectandra meyeriana 1948 Nectandra mucurubensis 1942 Nectandra olivacea 1942 Nectandra pittieri 1942 Ocotea auriculata 1948 Ocotea carabobensis 1942 Ocotea congestifolia 1942 Ocotea glandulosa 1942 Ocotea sanariapensis 1942 Ocotea tabulosa 1942 Persea lignipetala 1944 Persea pachytepala 1944 Phyllanthus obfalcatus 1950 with Maguire Pleurothyrium reflexum 1942 Pleurothyrium zulianense 1942 Raveniopsis peduncularis 1944 with Pittier Rourea cardonae 1954 with Maguire Schefflera hitchcockii 1950 with Maguire Stenopadus cardonae 1953 with Maguire Trichilia grandis 1954 with Maguire HONORS Lasseria Dennis 1960 (Fungi)