René San Martín
René Arturo San Martín y Saenz, Cuban mineralogist and petrographer (La Habana 1888 – 12 August 1956) Contributions He would have set up one of the best laboratories of mineralogical optics in the world Confirmed that polarization colors aren’t pure Modified Van Valkeburgh-Crwaford method for identification of elements to the point of converting it into a new method (1944) Modified the mineralogical assay by fusion employing ammonium phosphates Developed deflagration test in a closed tube to identify mineral elements Methods Un nuevo procedimiento rapido para el reconocimiento del elemento electro-positivo de alguns sulfuros, arseniuros y sulfosales naturales. Mem. Soc. Cub. Hist. Nat. (1922) With A.L. Bitencourt. Un nuevo metodo para el ensayo del mercurio em los minerales Patents Foreign Variable mercury-condenser. US Pat1,108,793 (1914) Cuban With J. Embil Bollada. Un procedimiento para transformar corrientes electricas en vibraciones mecanicas y sonoras (1924) With J. Embil Bollada. Un dispositivo destinado a reproducir com fuerte intensidad señales acusticas originada ser la electricidad y utilizable ventajosamente en circuitos telefonicos, telegraficos, radiotelefonicos y radiotelegraficos,etc y aplicable a outros fines cientificos e industriuales (1924) Honors His mineralogical collection “Santiago de la Huerta” was praised and declared unique in the world The publishing company John Wiley & Sons sent him mineralogical handbooks for review
Carmen Pujals
Carmen Pujals, Argentine phycologist (Buenos Aires 13 January 1916 – Adrogué, Buenos Aires Province 24 October 2003) From Catalonian parentage DESCRIBED ALGAE TAXA Genera Camontagnea 1981 Medeiothamnion 1970 Species Aphanocladia robusta 1967 Compsogonon argentinensis 1967 Gastroclonium trichodes 1967 Thorea bachmannii Pujals ex Sheath, Vis & Cole HONORS Pujalsia Boraso 2017 (Rhodophyta)
Roque Orlando
Roque Orlando Calcagno, Argentine neuropathologist (Campana, Buenos Aires Province 10 August 1899 – 1967) Authored over 80 works First to show the alternating degeneration of the external geniculate bodies in man La degeneración alternada del geniculado externo Discovered the pathogeny of Argyll-Robertson sign due to demyelization of iris nervous fibers or first to demonstrate the myelinic network of human iris and its demyelization in progressive general paralysis With B. Moyano. Patogenia del signo de Argyll-Robertson (1935) Introduced a new semiological method for exploring endoventricular structures La ventriculoscopia. Un nuevo metodo de semiologia cerebral y de investigación experimental. La Semana Medica 38 (52):1938, 1931 La ventriculoscopia y adquisiciones diagnósticas y terapêutica de la visualización ventriculoaracnoidea (1930) Demonstred that Erb syndrome doesn’t follow pyramidal degeneration in syphilitic medullary meningovascular disease Sobre la autonomia anatomo-clínica de la degeneración bipiramidal sistematica en mielosis sifilítica. Rev. Neurol. 10:1-11, 1945 Authored a exhaustive work about general palsy With Max Arndt. Paralisis general: estado actual y problemas (1945) Raised new problems about brain pathology With Max Arndt. Agnosia optica (1950) Demonstred the existence of a lobar bilateral symmetric atrophy in Pick disease (1935) With Hector M. Piñero. Contribución al estudio de la enfermedad de Pick. La Semana Medica (1936) With B. Moyano and others contributed to elucidation of the pathology and clinics of brain senility With daughter Maria Marta Orlando Solorzano authored work about iris effector system in zoological scale (posthumously published) OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS Sindromes neurologicos atipicos de la paralisis general. Thesis, Univ. Nac. Buenos Aires (1936) & Rev. Neurol. Bs Aires 1(1), 1936
Gustavo Augusto Melo
Gustavo Augusto Schmidt de Melo, Brazilian carcinologist (Santos, São Paulo State 14 December 1933 – DESCRIBED VALID CRUSTACEA TAXA Genus Speloeophoroides 1998 with Abrantes Torres Species Amphithrax besnardi 1990 with Manning & Albuquerque Antillimunida chacei 1992 with Melo Filho Babamunida coltroi 2006 Catapagurus cunhai 2012 with Nucci Clythrocerus bidentatus 1999 with Campos Jr Cyclodorippe longifrons 1999 with Campos Jr. Deliocerus coelhoi 1998 with Campos Jr. Goreopagurus lemaitrei 2007 with Nucci Grimothea atlantica 1994 with Melo Filho Iridonida heblingi 1991 with Melo Filho Iridonida petronioi 1994 with Melo Filho Latreillia williamsi 1990 Neopilumnoplax lipkeholthuisi 2010 with Tavares Pagurus heblingi 2003 with Nucci Paragalene danieleae 2010 with Tavares Pinnotheres emiliai 1971 Speloeophoroides capixaba 1998 with Abrantes Torres Speloeophorus brasiliensis 1998 with Abrantes Torres Sternostylus meridionalis 2004 with Melo Filho Trichopeltarion pezzutoi 2005 with Tavares HONORS (Crustacea) Melocarcinus Magalhães & Tuerkay 1996 Melothelphusa Pedraza, Tavares & Magalhães 2016
Enrique Hong
Enrique Hong Chong, Mexican pharmacologist (Tampico, Tamaulipas State 11 June 1938 – From Chinese ancestry Contributions Stimulation of central serotonin receptors as a novel mechanism of antihypertensive activity (1983) With P. Nava Felix. Nature of the central serotonin receptors mediating hypotension. J. Cardiovasc. Pharmacol. 1(4):461-6, 1979 Described and characterized new drugs Described zolertine, an antihypertensive agent with a special profile of an adrenergic blocking action (1965) With R. Rodríguez, H. Vidrio & E.G. Pardo. Pharmacology of a group of phenylpiperazine tetrazole derivatives with adrenergic blocking actions. J. Pharmacol. Exper. Therapy 148(1):54-65, 1965 With H. Vidrio, R. Rodríguez, J.L. Magaña, R. Vargas & R.G. Pardo. General pharmacology of zolertine, a new antihypertensive agent. Gac. Med. Mexico 98(9):1218-41, 1968 Described quipazine, the first synthetic serotonin agonist that was able to be absorbed from the oral route and to penetrate the blood brain barrier With L.F. Sancilio, R. Vargas & E.G. Pardo. Similarities between the pharmacological actions of quipazine and serotonin. Europ. J. Pharmacol. 6(3):274-80, 1969 with R. Rion & H. Vidrio, described Indorenate (TR3369), an agonist of 5-HT1A receptors with central antihypertensive properties With P. Nava Felix & H. Vidrio. Central antihypertensive effect of a new tryptamine derivative. Pharmacologist 20(3):188, 1978 Described rioprostil, a prostaglandin-like drug With D.A. Shriver, M.E. Rosenthale, H.C. Kluender, R.N. Schut & J.L. McGuire. Pharmacology of rioprostil, a new gastric cytoprotective/antisecretory agent. Drug Research 35(5):839-43, 1985 Described pelanserin With F.J. Flores Murrieta & G. Castañeda Hernandez. Sensitive high-performance liquid chromatographic assay of pelanserin, a novel antihypertensive agent, in plasma samples. J. Chromat. B. Biomed. Sci. Appl. 428:167-72, 1988 With H. Vidrio & M.A. Mena. Antiarrhythmic activity of TR2985, a novel diphenylhydantoin derivative (1980) With G. Reyes & T. Ramírez. Distinct cardioselectivity of TR2732, a new beta adrenergic blocking agent. Proceed. West Pharmacol. Soc. 34:141-4, 1991 With J.A. Terrón, F.J. López Muñoz & C.M. Villalon. 2-(2-aminoethyl)-quinoline (D-1997): a novel agonist at 5-hydroxytryptamine 1-like receptors in the canine basilar artery. Arch. Intern. Pharmacodyn. Therapie 327(1):56-68, 1994 OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS (methods and models) Indorenate, an useful tool to detect several 5-HT-related pharmacological activities. Acta Pharmacol. Sinica 27(9):1273, 2006 With R. Rodríguez, I. Rodríguez Boscan, D. Lugo Sira, H. Vidrio, M. Medina & I. Herrera. Bilateral sequential common carotid artery sectioning in mice as a new model for testing neuroprotective drugs. J. Stroke Cerebrovasc. Dis. 9(1):45-53, 2000 With F.J. Flores-Murrieta & V. Granados Soto. Determination of ketorolac in blood and plasma samples by high-performance liquid chromatography. Bol. Chim. Farmac. 133(9):588-91, 1994 With F.J. Flores-Murrieta & V. Granados Soto. A simple and rapid method for determination of fluconazole in human plasma samples by high-performance liquid chromatography. J. Liqu. Chromat. Relat. Technology 17(17):3803-11, 1994 With A. Meneses. Spontaneously hypertensive rats: a potential model to identify drugs for treatment of learning disorders. Hypertension 31(4):968-72, 1998 PATENTS Foreign With R.N. Schut & M.E. Safdy. Methyl-3-acetamido-2(5-methoxy-indol-3-yl) propanoate and hypotensive use thereof. US Pat. 4,393,081 (1983) EP0078431A1 (1983) With R.N. Schut & M.E. Safdy. Process for the preparation of 3-amino-2(5-fluoro-and 5-methoxy-1H-indol-3-yl) propanoic acid derivatives. US Pat. 4,283,336A (1981) With R.N. Schut & M.E. Safdy. 3-amino-or-amido-2(1H-indol-3-yl) propanoic acid derivatives. US Pat. 4,283,410 (1981) With M.E. Safdy & R.N. Schut. 3-amino-2 (5-fluoro and 5-methoxy-1h-indol-3-yl) propanoic acid derivatives CA1098910A (1981) Method of antihypertensive chemotherapy utilizing 1-methyl-3-keto-phenylquinuclidium salts. US Pat. 3,860,717 (1975) Mexican With J.M.L. Medina Contreras. Metodos para incrementar la sensibilidad a la insulina mediante agonistas de receptores serotonérgicos 5Ht2 MX363662B (2019) With V.I. Granados Soto & I. Araiza Saldaña. Metodo para evitar o retrasar la aparición de alodinea por medio del tratamiento con inhibidores de la enzima convertedora de angiotensina MX/360184B (2018) With F.Y. Huang & O. Echeverría Rodríguez. Losartan effect over perivascular adipose tissue and metabolic syndrome treatment. MX2010010371 A (2010) With G. Aguirre Hernandez, F. Ramírez Romero, I.A. Rivero Espejel & R.S. Ramaswamy. Procedure for the synthesis of monohydrated dichlorhidrated of 3-(3(4-fenil-1-piperacil) propil-)2,4 (1H,3H)-quinazolinedione (pelanserine) and resulting product. MX9206713A (1992)
Maria del Socorro Gonzalez
Maria del Socorro Gonzalez Elizondo, Mexican botanist and ecologist (Bustamante, Nuevo León 17 August 1953 – DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genus Megacorax 2002 with Wagner Species Agave pintilla 2011 with M. Gonzalez & Resendiz Arbutus concolor 2012 with M. Gonzalez & Sorensen Arbutus madrensis 1992 Aristolochia albopilosa 2016 with M. Gonzalez & Barrie Astragalus spellenbergi 2016 with Estrada & Villarreal Carex angustilepis 2021 with Reznicek Carex angustipica 2001 with Reznicek Carex cabralii 2021 with Reznicek Carex complexa 2021 with Reznicek Carex congestiflora 1999 with Reznicek Carex dentata 2021 with Reznicek Carex durangensis 1995 with Reznicek Carex evadens 1997 with Reznicek Carex gypsophila 2021 with Reznicek Carex longiligula 2001 with Reznicek Carex mesophila 2021 with Reznicek Carex michoacana 2007 with Hipp & Reznicek Carex paneroi 2021 with Reznicek Carex pinophila 1997 with Reznicek Carex planilamina 2021 with Reznicek Carex queretarensis 1997 with Reznicek Carex revoluta 2021 with Reznicek Carex rzedowskii 1995 with Reznicek Carex setigluma 1995 with Reznicek Carex tehuacana 2021 with Reznicek Carex tenejapensis 1999 with Reznicek Carex vizarronensis 2012 with Gomez-Sanchez, Cabrera Luna & Reznicek Cyperus calderonii 1985 Eleocharis alveolatoides 1996 with Reznicek Eleocharis arsenifera 2005 with Tena & Alarcón Eleocharis atrobrunnea 2012 with Trevis Eleocharis atrospiculata 1996 with Reznicek Eleocharis ayacuchensis 1996 with Reznicek Eleocharis canindeyuensis 2003 with Mereles Eleocharis cordillerana 2008 with Guaglianone & Ruthsatz Eleocharis cryptica 2010 with Saarela, Peterson & Rosen Eleocharis cuatrecasasii 2008 with Peterson Eleocharis eglerioides 1996 with Reznicek Eleocharis fassettii 2008 with Peterson Eleocharis ignota 2005 with Reznicek Eleocharis liesneri 1996 with Reznicek Eleocharis moorei 2000 with Strong Eleocharis moraosejoana 2008 with Ulloa & Peterson Eleocharis pseudoalbibracteata 2009 with Guaglianone Eleocharis reznicekii 2007 with Rosen, Carter & Peterson Eleocharis rzedowskii 1985 Eleocharis steyermarkii 1996 with Reznicek Eleocharis svensoniana 1985 Eleocharis tenarum 2009with M. Gonzalez Heliopsis suffuticosa 2011 with Ram-Noya Megacorax gracielanus 2002 with Wagner Viguiera inegii 2000 with M. Gonzalez & Rzedowski Viguiera oligantha 2000 with M. Gonzalez & Rzedowski HONORS Gonzalezia Schilling & Panero 2011 (Asteraceae)