Wilhelm Kalbreyer
Wilhelm Kalbreyer, German-born Colombian plant collector, gardener and nurseryman (1847 – Bogotá 1912) From his collections in West Africa and Colombia discovered: Anthurium veitchii 1880 Pachystoma thompsonianum Reichenbach 1879 20 new species and varieties of ferns described by John Baker (1881) 17 new species of Aiphanes described by Max Burret (1932) At least 10 new plant species that bears his name HONORS Kalbreyeriella Lindau 1922 (Acanthaceae)
Warwick Estevam Kerr
Warwick Estevam Kerr, Brazilian entomologist and geneticist (Santana do Parnaíba, São Paulo State 09 September 1922 – Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo State 15 September 2018) From Scottish descent Internationally recognized as the foremost expert on bees genetics Authored 247 papers (until 2007) Obtained important discoveries in bee genetics and sexual determination Discovered the genetical mechanism that rules the casts in genus Melipona (1950) Obtained the hybridization of the African and Italian bees known as Africanized honey bee (1950s) With H. Esch & I. Esch. Sound: an element common to communication of stingless bees and to dances of the honey bees. Science 149:320-1, 1965 With R.A. Nielsen. Técnica para aumentar, diminuir ou modificar a alimentação de alvéolos de cria de meliponídeos. Cien. Cult. 118:33-4, 1966 With G.A. Carvalho and V.A. Nascimento developed Uberlândia beehive, a cubic rational beehive (1996) DEVELOPED NEW VEGETABLE CULTIVARS With A.C.P. Santos. Obtenção de novos cultivares de alface. Braz. J. Genetics 19(3): 202, 1996 With E.L. Almeida Jr, F.J. Campos & J.R. Santos Filho. Maioba: novo cultivar de alface para solos ácidos. Hort. Bras. 8(2):33-4, 1991 With colleagues developed the cultivars Melitino of egg-plants, Glória do Maranhão and Uberlândia 10000 of lettuce, between others HONORS Elected Foreign Member, National Academy of Sciences, USA (1990) Subgenus Melikerria Moure 1992 (Hymenoptera)
Walter Wolfgang Kempf
Walter Wolfgang Franz Kempf, German-born Brazilian Franciscan friar and entomologist (Speyer, Rhineland-Palatinate State 26 March 1920 – Washington DC, USA 20 August 1976) DESCRIBED HYMENOPTERA TAXA Genera Eucryptocerus 1951 Eurhopalothrix 1960 with Brown Phalacromyrmex 1960 Tatuidris 1967 with Brown Species At least 122 HONORS Kempfsimulium Py-Daniel & Nunes de Mello 1982 (Diptera)
Walter Knoche
Walter Alfred Knoche, German-born Argentine meteorologist, geophysicist, geographer and anthropologist (Berlin 07 March 1881 – Buenos Aires 03 July 1945) Nephew of Nobel Prize winner Paul Ehrlich Authored 276 publications Regarded as one of founders of bioclimatology Created a new climate classification Nuevo método de clasificacion climática. Rev. Arg. Agron. 10:26-54, 1943 Enunciated new concepts about climate, microclimate and micrometeorological factors in pathology and therapeutics Nueva forma de representación basica para fines agro y fitoclimaticos. Ciencia Mexico 3(1):24-9, 1942 Una nueva representación gráfica de orden antropo y fitoclimatico con ejemplos para la Republica Argentina (1945) Forma fuera del comun de descargas electricas observadas en las Sierras de Cordoba durante una lejana tempestad electrica. Anales Soc. Cien. Arg (1942) Eponym of Knoche-Borzacov climatic scale (1947) and Knoche index of aridity
Vijay Kumar Kapahi
Vijay Kumar Kapahi, Indian radioastronomer (Quetta, Punjab 21 January 1944 – Mumbai 16 March 1999) Authored about 100 papers Internationally acclaimed for his contributions in the field of extragalactic radio sources and cosmology First showed that radio galaxies linear sizes were considerably smaller in earlier cosmic epochs (1975) Identified a major class of radio sources, the compact steep-spectrum sources (1981) Discovered the phenomenon of relativistic beaming in quasar nuclei With G. Swarup. A simple image forming technique suitable for multifrequency observations of solar radio bursts. Solar Physics 14:404-13, 1970
Vasudeva Krishnamurthy
Vasudeva B. Krishnamurthy, Indian phycologist (Valavanur, Villupuram District 14 August 1921 – Described the genus Compsopogonopsis 1962 (Rhodophyta) and 51 new algae species HONORS Krishnamurthya S. Chandra 2004 (Chrysophyta) LINKS HTTP://kiachennai.com/vkbio.htm