Alfredo Lanari Gil
Alfredo Lanari Gil, Argentine clinician (Mar del Plata 09 February 1910 – Buenos Aires 23 March 1985) Authored over 150 works Authored an influent chapter on pathological physiology of myasthenia gravis With A.R. Goñi. Fisiopatologia de la myasthenia gravis. Medicina (Bs. Aires) 3:476, 1943 Obtained experimentally bronchiectasis by bronchial obstruction With O. C. Croxatto. Pathogenesis of bronchiectasis: experimental study and anatomic findings. J. Thorac. Surg. 27(5):514-28, 1954 Lanari method for diagnosis of peripheral vascular affections employing acetylcholine intra-arterial injection
Alberto Ribeiro Lamego
Alberto Ribeiro Lamego, Brazilian geologist and geographer (Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro State 09 April 1896 – Rio de Janeiro 16 October 1985) Introduced the concept of Brazilic diastrophism, a pre-laurentian diastrophism with intrusions of microcline-biotite-granitite Proposed the term proto-gneiss for semi-phacoidal plagioclase-gneiss of Engenho Novo type Proposed that the main types of gneisses came from a primitive rock that named protogneis A Theoria do Protogneis. Uma interpretação petrogenética do Arqueano. Bol. Serv. Geol. Miner. 86, 1937 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Contribuição a Geologia do Valle do Rio Grande, Minas Geraes. Bol. Serv. Min. Brazil 70, 1933 O massiço do Itatiaya e regiões circundantes (1936) Escarpas do Rio de Janeiro. Bol. Serv. Geol. Miner. 93, 1938 Marmores do Muriaé, Rio de Janeiro. Bol. Serv. Geol. Miner. 97, 1940 A Bacia de Campos na Geologia Litorânea do Petróleo (1944) A Geologia de Niterói na tectônica da Guanabara (1945) Ciclo evolutivo das lagunas fluminenses. Bol. Div. Geol. Miner. Dept. Nac. Prod. Min. 118:1-48, 1945 Analise tectônica e morfológica do sistema da Mantiqueira (1946) Geologia das folhas de Campos, São Tomé, Lagoa Feia e Xexé (1955) HONORS Vice-president, Commission of International Geological Chart Vice-president, International Union of Geological Sciences Genus Lamegoia Paula Couto 1952 (Fossil Mammalia)
Alberto Loefgren
Johan Albert Constantin Loefgren, Swedish-born Brazilian naturalist (Stockholm 11 September 1854 – Rio de Janeiro 30 August 1918) DESCRIBED VALID SPECIES Plantae Acianthera cryptophoranthoides 1918 Anathallis adenochila 1918 Anathallis simpliciglossa 1918 Anathallis tigridens 1918 Begonia juliana Brasiliorchis barbosae 1918 Pleurothallis atroglossa 1918 Pleurothallis glandulifera 1915 Pleurothallis leucosepala 1918 Pleurothallis magnicalcarata 1918 Rhipsalis campos-portoana 1918 Rhipsalis chrysantha 1915 Rhipsalis chrysocarpa 1915 Rhipsalis crispimarginata 1918 Rhipsalis densiareolata 1918 Rhipsalis oblonga 1918 Rhipsalis pacheco-leonis 1918 Rhipsalis pilocarpa 1903 Rhipsalis pulchra 1915 Rhipsalis rigida 1915 Schlumbergera candida 1918 Schlumbergera opuntioides 1903 with Dusén Zygocactus obtusangulus 1918 Algae Staurastrum psilosporum 1883 with Nordstedt (Charophyta) HONORS Loefgrenia Gomont 1896 (Cyanophyceae) Loefgrenianthus Hoehne 1927 (Orchidaceae) Loefgrenia Travassos 1920 (Nematoda)
Aklilu Lemma
Aklilu Lemma, Ethiopian physician (Giggiga, Harar Province 18 September 1934 – United States 05 April 1997) Discovered that extracts from the fruit of endod or soapberry (Phytolacca dodecandra) act as a potent molluscicide (1964) With H.H. Lee & P.C. Fraleigh patented Method of controlling zebra mussels with extract of Phytolacca dodecandra. US Patent 5252330 (1993) HONORS Visiting Professor, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins University Right Livelihood Award (1989)
Adolpho Lutz
Adolpho Lutz, Brazilian physician, parasitologist and naturalist (Rio de Janeiro 18 December 1855 – Rio de Janeiro 06 October 1940) Son of Swiss immigrants Authored 245 publications DISCOVERED Sylvan malaria and sylvan yellow fever (1903) South American blastomycosis or paracoccidioidomycosis or Lutz-Splendore-Almeida disease (1908) Infantile acrodynia (1882-3; noticed in 1885) Granulations in Hansen bacillus known as Lutz granulations (1886) Water storing plants like Freycinetia sp. acted as habitat for small crustaceans and mollusks The role of epiphytic Bromeliads as breeders of malaria transmitting mosquitoes OTHERS Proved that intake of Ascaris lumbricoides embryonated eggs as ascaridiasis cause independent from Grassi studies Authored the first reports about pulmonary symptomatology in ascaridiasis First described schizogonic cycle of hemogregarines in host lungs Assigned the fleas as intermediate host of Dipylidium caninum (1887) With Arning described juxtaarticular nodosities (1892) before Jeanselme (1912) know as Lutz-Jeanselme syndrome Described the coccoid forms of Hansen bacillus (with P.G. Unna) Clarified the life cycle of Dermatobia cyaniventris Created the term enteritis to differentiate from dysentery (1891) With A. Splendore described sporotrichosis pathogeny, pathology and symptomatology and discovered the feasibility to growing Sporotrichium schenckii in vitro and the first reported case of animal infection by sporotrichosis in Sobre uma micose observada em homens e ratos. Rev. Med. S. Paulo 21:433-50, 1907 First detailed reports about Schistosoma mansoni miracidium penetration in host mollusk (1917) Introduced the thymol utilization in ancylostomiasis therapeutics Proclaimed Sabouraud Agar medium employing tartaric acid DEVELOPED Egg enrichment method of Schistosoma mansoni in human stools (1919), rediscovered as Hoffman-Pons-Janer method in 1934 A counting method for Ancylostoma sp. eggs (1885), adopted by Looss and Leichtenstern A device for keeping heated the microscope platinum in constant temperature A new method of enclosing and preserving small objects for microscopic examination (1920) A new suture method A simple and practical method for treatment of empyema (1920) An ingenious and simple process to transport blood A loop suited to capture snakes (Lutz loop) DESCRIBED TAXA 52 genera and many species in Diptera 7 genera in Trematoda 5 new scorpion species with O. De Mello Dozens of new parasite protozoan species Genus Aplastodiscus 1950 and 38 valid species in Amphibia HONORS/EPONYMY Only South American guest speaker in Bicentennial of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, US Medicine & Physiology Nobel Prize nominee (1938) Lutz method (spontaneous sedimentation method) Lutziola Strand 1932 (Diptera) Lutzomiops Lane 1942 (Diptera) Lutzomyia França 1927 (Diptera) Lutzsimulium d’Andretta & d’Andretta 1947 (Diptera) Lutztrema Travassos 1941 (Trematoda) Lutznema Lent & Freitas 1934 (Nematoda) Protolutzia Cunha & Muniz 1925 (Protozoa) Lepidolutzia Rego Barros 1956 (Lepidoptera) Subgenus Lutzimicron Costa Lima 1960 (Hymenoptera) Subgenus Lutzia Theobald 1903 (Diptera)
Adolpho Carlos Lindenberg
Adolpho Carlos Lindenberg, Brazilian dermatologist (Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro 12 September 1872 – São Paulo 06 December 1944) Identified Leishmania brasiliensis as etiologic agent of American cutaneous leishmaniasis (1909); this species was sent to Gaspar Vianna that described it L’Ulcere de Bauru ou le Bouton d’Orient au Bresil. Comm. Prelim. Bull. Soc. Path. Exot. 2:252-4, 1909 Described Nocardia brasiliensis, etiologic agent of exogenous actinomycetoma Un nouveau mycetoma. Arch. Parasitol. 13:265-82, 1909 Studied the action mechanism of chaulmoogra oil in leprosy treatment (1920s) Perfected methods for leprosy treatment