José Leite Lopes
José Leite Lopes, Brazilian theoretical physicist (Recife 28 October 1918 – Rio de Janeiro 12 June 2006) ACHIEVEMENTS Published more than 80 works Developed with Feynman a pseudoscalar theory of deuteron With R.P. Feynman. Symposium on New Research Techniques in Physics p. 251, 1954. Predicted existence of neutral vectorial boson (Zo boson), that mediates interactions in electromagnetic forces (1958) Proposed that coupling constant of vectorial bosons with weak charged current would be equal to electromagnetic coupling constant A model of the Universal Fermi interaction. Nuclear Physics 8:234-6, 1958. First to compute induced pseudoscalar coupling in interaction between muons and light nuclei (1958) Capture of negative muons by light nuclei. Physical Review 109:509, 1958 Performed the first computing related to beta decay of lambda hyperon (1958) Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias 29:251, 1958. Proposed that leptons are composed of a ½ spin sub particle Developed a new aspect of Hamilton variational principle BOOKS Fondements de la Physique Atomique (Hermann, 1967) Lectures on Symmetries (Gordon & Breach, 1969) Gauge Field Theories (Pergamon Press, 1981) Theorie Relativiste de la Gravitation (Masson, 1993) With B. Escoubes. Sources et Evolution de La Physique Quantique (Masson, 1995) PROFESSORSHIP Visiting Professor, Faculté des Sciences de Orsay (1964-7) Visiting Professor, Carnegie Mellon University (1969-70) Honorary Professor, Université Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg (1970-86) Emeritus Professor, Université Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg (1986)
José Guilherme Lacorte
José Guilherme Lacorte, Brazilian microbiologist and immunologist (Bragança Paulista, São Paulo State 08 December 1900 – Rio de Janeiro 09 April 1983) Described Corynebacterium haemolytium With M. Santos. Endocardite e septicemia pelo Corynebacterium haemolytium n.sp. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz p.457-67, 1944 Processos de laboratório para o diagnóstico da difteria. Acta Med. 5(3):188-98, 1940 With Estácio Monteiro. Métodos de homogeneização de material para pesquisa do bacilo de tuberculose em cultura. Bras. Med. 54(49):807-8, 1940 Vírus e câncer, provável isolamento de vírus de câncer humano. J. bras. Med. 19(1):65-71, 1970 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Persistence of influenza vírus in hamsters inoculated by intracerebral route. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 72(1-2):129-30, 1974 Prolongada persistência do vírus da gripe em hamsters inoculados por vias parenterais e nasal. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz (1973) Transmissão congênita do vírus da gripe inoculado em hamsters (1972) With E.F. Monteiro & J.C. Loures. Ação do radium sobre o vírus da coriomeningite linfocitária benigna. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 65-6:181-96, 1967 Persistence of influenza virus in mice inoculated by peritoneal route and their congenital transmission. O Hospital 71(1):141-4, 1967 With E.F. Monteiro & J.C. Loures. Effect of lyophilization on the pathogenic power of the influenza virus. Rev. Bras. Med. 19:8-9, 1962 New ideas on virus diseases caused by hepatotropic and pantropic viruses. Rev. Bras. Med. 19:489-90, 1962 Dissociação entre as propriedades imunizante e hemaglutinante do vírus da gripe. Rev. Bras. Med. 18(6):377-84, 1961 O vírus da poliomielite e a vacina Salk (1958) With E.F. Monteiro & J.C. Loures. Resisténce de quelques virus a l’action oligodynamique de l’argent. Abst. Comm.VII th Intern. Congr. Microb. 290 (1958) With E.F. Monteiro & J.C. Loures. Influences des rayons X sur le virus de la gripe. Atti VII Congr. Int. Microb. 3:104, 1953 Pneumoptropic virus, the virus of influenza or flu. Rev. Bras. Med. 6(1):23-8, 1949 Emprego da anatoxina estafilocócica. O Hospital 13:715-7, 1938 A reação de Machado na moléstia de Chagas. Acta Medica 1:264-74, 1938 Inoculação experimental de bacilos de Koch de proveniência urinária. O Hospital 9(1):99, 1937 Curioso aspecto morfológico do bacilo de Koch. O Hospital 8(1):35, 1936 Anatoxina diftérica. Rev. Med. Militar 4 (1933) Moléstia de Hodgkin e corynebactérias. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 22(2), 1929 Influência do pH sobre as colorações do Giemsa. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz Suppl. 1:9, 1928 With A. Godoy. Action d’um noyau de l’oxyaminoquinoléine sur les gamétes et les sporozoites de l’Halteridium du pigeon. Comp. Rend. Soc. Biol. 98:617-9, 1928 With G.G. Villela. O líquido cephalo-raqueano na febre amarela. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 2:62-4, 1928 A reação do desvio do complemento na moléstia de Chagas. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 20:211, 1927
Jorge Tadeo Lozano
Jorge Tadeo Lozano de Peralta y Gonzalez Manrique, Colombian statesman, journalist and naturalist (Santafé de Bogotá 30 January 1771 – Santafé de Bogotá 06 July 1816) Governor of Nueva Granada or Cundinamarca (01 April 1811 – 21 September 1811) Performed chemical studies in Spain Conceived chromapicilo, a new device for measuring colours degradation Idea de un instrumento llamado Chromapicilo que manifiesta la degradación de lós colores (1810) Authored Fauna Cundinamarquesa (1806) and Memoria sobre las serpientes (1808) HONORS Lozania S. Mutis 1810 (Lacistemataceae)
Jorge Lobo
Jorge de Oliveira Lobo, Brazilian medical mycologist and dermatologist (Recife 12 November 1899 – Recife 09 April 1979) Authored 53 papers Described Lobo disease or lobomycosis Um caso de blastomicose produzido por uma espécie nova, encontrada em Recife. Rev. Med. Pernambuco 44:763-5, 1931. Described new pathogenic fungi With A.E. Area Leão. Micetome du pied a Cephalosporium recifei n.sp. mycetome a grains blancs. C.R. Soc. Biol. 117:203-5, 1934 With A.E. Area Leão. Micetoma podal de grãos brancos, Acremonium lutzi, n.sp. Acta Med. Rio de Janeiro 4:211-21, 1939 HONORS Loboa Ciferri, Azevedo, Campos & Carneiro 1956 (Fungi)
Jorge Lewowicz
Jorge Lewowicz Volman, Uruguayan mathematician (Montevideo 17 March 1937 – Montevideo 21 June 2014) Obtained a class of topological stable diffeomorphisms wider than the class of Anosov diffeomorphisms Gave a new proof of stability With Tolosa showed that expansive homeomorphisms in the Co boundary of Anosov are conjugated Introduced the concept of persistence in several types of expansive homeomorphisms Introduced notion of persistence for a homeomorphism of a compact metric space (1983) Coined the term persistence (1983) Proved the non existence of stable points in expansive homeomorphisms of surfaces (1983) Proved that every pseudo-Anosov map is persistent (1983) Introduced infinitesimal Lyapunov functions or quadratic forms Proposed a theorem about expansive homeomorphism of a compact orientable surface (1989) independently of Hiraide (1990) Proposed the use Lyapunov functions of two variable to study structural stability and similar concepts Proved, for a differentiable vector or field or a diffeomorphism on a smooth manifold, that the set of points such that the semitrajectories issuing from them approach a particular semitrajectory at a given exponential rate constitute a differentiable submanifold, provided that diferential of the flow has a certain similar behavior on that trajectory (1981) Gave necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of an elementary attracting periodic motion of an autonomous system as the only invariant set contained in a given positively invariant region of phase sphere (1974) With R. Ures proved that if Axiom A diffeomorphisms is exteriorly situated, stable and unstable half-leaves of points of boundedly deviates from geodesics (2000) Obtained criteria that assure that certain conservative diffeomorphisms display entropy towards volume EPONYMY Lewowicz classification of expansive homeomorphism of surfaces Lewowicz number of linear diffeomorphisms Lewowicz theorem Lewowicz map Lewowicz structural stability theorem Lewowicz diffeomorphisms
Jorge Landi Dessy
Jorge Silvio Francisco Landi Dessy, Argentine astronomer (Buenos Aires 01 September 1922 – 1991) A relative of bacteriologist Silvio Dessy DISCOVERED Variable stars with a period shorter than one day in Magellanic Clouds (1952) independently of Thackeray With Dartayet 25 new faint variable stars (1952) and 333 new SMC variables (1959) With Laborde new variables in the Minor Cloud (Region f) Found 277 new variables stars New variables in the large Magellanic Cloud (1964) Discovered 3 short-period variable stars in With M. Dartayet. Small Magelanic Cloud (1952) Proposed a spectral classification of stars Adaptation of the MK system to later spectra of medium dispersion with an intent of three-parametric classification (1966) DEVICES Proposed theories for preventing distinct optical aberrations in telescopes Proposed a new type of kernel camera having only one optical surface With R. Platzeck. La camara de Meinel telecêntrica. Bol. Asoc. Arg. Astron. 2 (1960) With R. Platzeck. A new type of collimator for Meridian mark (1962) Proposed a two-mirror aplanat with concave primary and flat secondary in An astrometrical aplanatic telescope with a figurated flat secondary mirror. Bol. Asoc. Arg. Astron. 14:18-28, 1968 New parametric tables for reflecting telescopes, for aplanats, anastigmats, flat-fielded, distortion free and third order errors free systems (1968) Un nuevo tipo de telescopio camara con tres espejos / A telescope camera with three mirrors. Publ. Astron. Soc. Pacific 75:66, 1963 A project of 40″ telescope applied to a high dispersion spectrograph (1964) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With M. Jaschek & C. Jaschek. An atlas of grating stellar spectra at intermediate dispersion (1977) With José R. Laborde. The short period variable stars in the Magellanic Clouds. Astrophys. Space Science Library 23:47-9, 1971 With J.R. Laborde. 1107 variable stars in the Magellanic Clouds observed at Cordoba Obsevatory (1970) With P.C. Keenan. Spectral types on the MK System for Forty Three bright Southern Stars, K2M6. Astrophys. J. 146:587, 1966 With P.C. Keenan. Variations in spectral type of the Mira variables R CEN and T CEN. Astrophys. J. 146:583, 1966 With A. Puch. A discussion of third order errors of reflecting telescopes. Mem. Soc. Astr. Ital. 37:657, 1966 A two minor aplanat with concave primary and flat secondary. Mem. Soc. Astr. Ital. 37, 1966 Distortion free aplanatic telescopes. Mem. Soc. Astr. Ital. 37, 1966 Some lesser known properties of Ritchey-Chretien telescopes. Mem. Soc. Astron. Ital. 34:415, 1963 La binaria p Eridani (1949) With J. Sahade. The radial velocities of CPD-63’896 With J. Sahade. La binaria espectroscopica Boss 4496 HONORS Asteroid 2381 Landi