Fernando Latapí
José Diodoro Fernando Latapí Contreras, Mexican dermatologist (Ciudad de Mexico 11 October 1902 – 28 October 1989) Authored over 300 papers Proposed the term pintides for disseminated secondary lesions of pinta With F. Leon Blanco. Las lesiones del principio del mal de pinto. Una nueva dermatosis. Rev. Mex. Medicina 20:315, 1940 Discovered a new disease called dyschromia en confetti caused by hydroquinones (1956) First to employ successfully sulphones for treatment of mycetomas Coined terms like early and late syphilis and corticoderma Modified Morgan scheme in syphilis Rediscovered Lucio phenomenon or necrotizing erythema EPONYMY diffuse leprosy of Lucio-Alvarado-Latapi Latapi bib sign (in Lucio-Latapi leprosy)
Fernando Lahille
Fernando Lahille, French-born Argentine naturalist and etnographer (Rouen 18 August 1861 – Buenos Aires 13 July 1940) Authored 378 papers Performed studies on general zoology and fisheries biology Developed Lahille ichthyometer (1908) DESCRIBED ANIMALIA TAXA Tunicata Orders Aplousobranchia 1886 Phlebobranchia 1887 Stolidobranchia 1887 Class Appendicularia 1890 Families Cionidae 1887 Corellidae 1888 Kowalevskiidae 1888 Pyrosomatidae 1888 Salpidae 1888 Genus Herdmania 1888 Fossil Echinodermata Family Monophorastidae Diptera Tribe Uranotaeniinae 1904 Subgenus Lynchiella 1904 Hemiptera Genus Paradiaspis 1919 Mammalia Species Phocoena dioptrica 1912 Pisces Subfamily Gasterochismatinae 1903 Genus Crossostomus 1908 Species Galaxias elongatus 1915 Odontesthes smitti 1929 Schedophilus pacificus 1915 Torpedo puelcha 1926 HONORS Genus Lahillia Cossmann 1899 (Fossil Mollusca) Honor Diploma, World Fair of Saint Louis (1904) Golden Medal, Torino Show (1911) Silver Medal, Roubaix Show (1911) LINKS http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/bitstream/handle/10915/15847/Documento_completo.pdf?sequence=1
Federico Lleras Acosta
Federico Pablo de la Cruz Lleras Acosta, Colombian veterinarian and bacteriologist (Bogotá 27 April 1877 – Marseille, France 18 March 1938) Father of president Carlos Lleras Restrepo and cousin of president Alberto Lleras Camargo ACHIEVEMENTS Lleras test or method for leprosy diagnosis and prognosis Lleras reaction for syphilis diagnosis Lleras Acosta technique for bacterioscopy of lymph nodes SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Pruebas de la especificidad de un bacilo aislado de la sangre de leprosos. Rev. Fac. Med. Bogotá 5(2):99-155, 1936 Algunas consideraciones sobre la biologia del bacilo de Hansen. Rev. Fac. Med. Bogotá 1(12):925-35, 1935 Nuevas orientaciones en el tratamento de la infección puerperal generalizada por los antivírus en inyección interavenosa. Rev. Fac. Med. Bogotá 1(6):357-70, 1932 Un caso de osteocondritis costal tifica con vacunas y antivírus. Rev. Fac. Med. Bogotá 1(3):152-4, 1932 Diagnostico bacteriológico de la peste. Rev. Higiene 6(87), 1914 Piroplasmosis bovina (1908) Ranilla o malária bovina en la Sabana de Bogotá. Diagnostico diferencial con la fiebre carbunclosa (1908) Infecciones de la leche. Rev. Nac. Agric. 9:147-9, 1906 El carbón bacteridiano. Rev. Nac. Agric 1(6):44-8, 1906 Higiene de carnes. De las diversas condiciones que alteran la calidad de las carnes y perjudican la conservación de ellas, en las reses sacrificadas em el matadero de Bogotá (1899) Contribución al estúdio del carbón sintomático Nuevas orientaciones en el diagnostico de la tuberculosis
Fausto Walter de Lima
Fausto Walter de Lima, Brazilian radiochemist (Franca, São Paulo State 08 January 1920 – São Paulo 15 September 2007) ACHIEVEMENTS Proposed a formula relating Souders viscosity constant and parachor for hydrocarbons (1948) A general relation among the various additive-constitutive physical properties. J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 70:3141, 1948 Developed a method to obtaining uranium with pure nucleus (1961) with Alcidio Abrão; patented in 1968 Developed a method for the separation of rare-earths using ion exchange resins With A. Abrão. Separation of bismuth from lead with (Ethylenediamine) tetraacetic acid. Application to Radiochemistry (1958) With A. Abrão e C. Pagano. Recovery of cesium-137 from fission products in wastes of nuclear reactor installations (1959) With A. Abrão & R.R.Pieroni. Improved urinary excretion test for assay of vitamin B-12 tagged with cobalt-60. Anais Assoc. Bras. Quim. 18:167, 1959. A versatile and inexpensive pippeting device for radioactive and other dangerous liquids (1960) With C.M. Silva. A method for the determination of Sr/sup90/–Y/sup90/ by using EDTA and ion-exchangers-application to the determination of those radioisotopes in milk (1963) With A. Abrão & L.T. Atalla. Production of carrier-free phosphorus-32 by using sulphates as material for irradiation OTHERS Founder, Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry Founder, Radiochemical and Radioanalytical Letters
Fanghua Li
Fanghua Li, Chinese crystallographer and microscopist (Hong Kong 06 January 1932 – Beijing 24 January 2020) Married to physicist Haifu Fan With Fuson Han & Haifu Fan proposed a new method to estimate the defocus from a single electron micrograph (1986) A method of studying dislocation core structures by high-resolution electron microscopy. Sci. Techn. Advan. Materials 6(7):755-60, 2005 Proposed a new approach for measuring crystal defects with atomic resolution and the first report on the defect of atomic resolution at the interface of SiGe/Si epitaxial film Discovered and reported the almost continuous transition process between quasicrystals and crystals besides propose a new method to determine the structure of quasicrystal Determined the position of hydrogen atoms in the single crystal for the first time (1960s) With Haifu Fan created a new image processing theory and technology in high-resolution electron microscopy (1970s) Established an unwinding process technology based on the principle of maximum entropy Exposed new experimental rules and developed a method for determining the position of light atoms Proposed pseudo-weak phase object approximation, a new image contrast theory, clarifying the relationship between image intensity and crystal thickness for the first time (1980s) First to observe lithium atom in crystals DEVELOPED Practical image contrast theory and image deconvolution methods New methods in high resolution electron microscopy Image processing techniques for the structure and defect determination at atomic level for minute crystals A new method to solve the inverse problem in high-resolution electron microscopy which eliminated the lens aberration distortion in the observation of crystalline structures
Eugenio Lasnier
Eugenio Pablo Lasnier Anselmi, Uruguayan anatomical pathologist (Montevideo 21 April 1883 – 05 October 1950) First to describe the false amebic tumor of colon or colon ameboma or Lasnier-Gaminara disease Tumores amibianos del intestine grueso. An. Fac. Med. Univ. Repub. Uruguay 3:810-28, 1918 First described the pathology and amebic etiology of ameboma METHODS Developed a procedure for identification of hydatid cysts employing sputum index With J.F. Cassinelli. Diagnóstico de quiste hidático hialino (no roto) del pulmón, mediante la inclusión de esputos (1946) Aplicación de técnica personal de coloración electiva de los pigmentos bruno y melânico a las células hepáticas Uber eine elektive Farbungsmethode des braunen und des melanotischen Pigmentes. Virchows Arch. 266:693-6, 1928